LED Light bar and pod light install

Tiptoo · May 31, 2018

Hello all. I'm new to tractorin' ....1st thing I noticed is that I didn't have enough light with my bucket in the way.

Total cost was under $100.

UpstateSC_Papi · May 31, 2018

That looks amazing! You live near SC? I'd pay you $200 to do that to my tractor! I am wiring and modding inept. Sigh...

Tiptoo · May 31, 2018

UpstateSC_Papi said:
That looks amazing! You live near SC? I'd pay you $200 to do that to my tractor! I am wiring and modding inept. Sigh...

Sorry. I'm in Kentucky, otherwise, I'd love to help you out.
I can add more detail and walk you through it.

Tiptoo · May 31, 2018

I was bad and tapped the ROPS for the light bar.

The pods I mounted to a piece of metal I had lying around, 3/4 inch square tube. L brackets then bolt to the ROPS fold down eyelets.

Wired in series the lights go to a fused relay I mounted directly by the existing headlight relay. (I changed the headlights to LEDs too). The relay is powered by my sasquatch switch which allows current from the battery to the lights. I found a positive wire that turns on when the tractor is started by the existing rear lights. That wire powers my squatch switch.

I used a Nilight switch and relay/harness off Amazon. The Auxbeam light bar and pods are also off Amazon. Originally I wanted 3 separate switches....but I had nowhere to cleanly mount them.

Tiptoo · May 31, 2018

Tiptoo said:
I was bad and tapped the ROPS for the light bar.

The pods I mounted to a piece of metal I had lying around, 3/4 inch square tube. L brackets then bolt to the ROPS fold down eyelets.

Wired in series the lights go to a fused relay I mounted directly by the existing headlight relay. (I changed the headlights to LEDs too). The relay is powered by my sasquatch switch which allows current from the battery to the lights. I found a positive wire that turns on when the tractor is started by the existing rear lights. That wire powers my squatch switch.

I used a Nilight switch and relay/harness off Amazon. The Auxbeam light bar and pods are also off Amazon. Originally I wanted 3 separate switches....but I had nowhere to cleanly mount them.

Sorry. It was Mictuning harness....Nilight squatch switch.

CMV · May 31, 2018

So the rear-facing are spot vs flood lights? Still light up a large area or is it more like two separate "hotspots" of bright light?

Tiptoo · May 31, 2018

CMV said:
So the rear-facing are spot vs flood lights? Still light up a large area or is it more like two separate "hotspots" of bright light?

They flood pretty good....better than most backup lights on today's automobiles. I have the 'hotspots' on both sides of my 5.5ft box blade and it give me all I need to do work and make adjustments to my box. ( I don't have a tilt cylinder for my end link yet, so I'm doing many adjustments)

In the pics you can see hot spots on door and by rock ....but plenty of flooded light to see around... hope I answered your question!

prof fate · May 31, 2018

I put smaller LED's on my kubota, mostly for negotiating a pasure at night to feed horses this past winter - way better than headlights! I got 4 36w ones and only used 2 - it's enough, it's an older kubota and those 2 used the same watts as the factory headlights.

Didn't want to overload the charging system.