kiotiken
Veteran Member
Welcome to TBN's 10 000th thread on installing LED work lights! I couldn't stand the factory lights on my cab, they just didn't offer enough light to be comfortable with my surroundings in the dead of winter while using the snow blower. I had planned on keeping them and building an additional light bar for the LED lights, but in the end, it was just too easy to replace the factory lights, it didn't make sense to try and make it any more complicated. The only time I can see wanting my factory lights is for road travel, you wouldn't want to shine these LED's into on coming traffic, but they would have been useless with the LED's on.
So I ordered a 10 pk of 18W CREE (does that mean something?) LED lights from ebay. They arrived and were much better quality than I expected. I'm not sure about the quality of the circuitry, but the light housings are all aluminium and have a nice heavy feel. I toyed with how to mount them and if I should put them on a separate switch (from the factory lights) but decided to strip the factory lights and re-use the existing switches. Kioti adds these metal brackets to the back of the cab (it's been discussed and decided they are simply used for moving the cab at the factory and have no other purpose) that just begged to be used. I was going to go all 4Shorts fancy on this (not that I would have hit the same results), I even thought about strobes and new marker lights built into a custom box, but in the end, I have enough on my plate and a simple piece of angle iron with 3 holes drilled was all the job needed.
I mounted 4 in the front and 4 in the back. In the front, they are mounted side by side which fits nicely into the space provided by Kioti for lights and allowed me to point the outside lights down slightly and the inside lights straight forward for distance. The rear and rear/side facing lights let me see a very wide area around the tractor, perfect for snow blowing and knowing what's around and where the snow is going.
All I can say is
they're bright!
Pretty hard to take pics at night. They don't show how bright they really are.
So I ordered a 10 pk of 18W CREE (does that mean something?) LED lights from ebay. They arrived and were much better quality than I expected. I'm not sure about the quality of the circuitry, but the light housings are all aluminium and have a nice heavy feel. I toyed with how to mount them and if I should put them on a separate switch (from the factory lights) but decided to strip the factory lights and re-use the existing switches. Kioti adds these metal brackets to the back of the cab (it's been discussed and decided they are simply used for moving the cab at the factory and have no other purpose) that just begged to be used. I was going to go all 4Shorts fancy on this (not that I would have hit the same results), I even thought about strobes and new marker lights built into a custom box, but in the end, I have enough on my plate and a simple piece of angle iron with 3 holes drilled was all the job needed.
I mounted 4 in the front and 4 in the back. In the front, they are mounted side by side which fits nicely into the space provided by Kioti for lights and allowed me to point the outside lights down slightly and the inside lights straight forward for distance. The rear and rear/side facing lights let me see a very wide area around the tractor, perfect for snow blowing and knowing what's around and where the snow is going.
All I can say is
they're bright!Pretty hard to take pics at night. They don't show how bright they really are.
