B3000 Adding Work Lights - AMPS Question

[sixdogs]

I've been using Maxxima MWL-42's. Plenty of light and they just sip electrons.

For guys that sometimes work at night--me--that is a beautiful picture in post 10. Can you go into greater detail on setup, lights, alternator, etc?
I'm a newbie at this and want to add front floods to my L4300 for night tillage. Possibly my M7040 as well. I figured to just use the wire pigtails under the fender on each side and that if I had low enough draw I could use both. All this is foreign to me but I sure do love your picture. The MWL-42 looks like what I want. Floods or spot?

Secondary tillage or seeding at night doesn't require much light but it does require some.

 

[chim]

For guys that sometimes work at night--me--that is a beautiful picture in post 10. Can you go into greater detail on setup, lights, alternator, etc?
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Depending upon my schedule, mowing at night happens sometimes. Two Maxxima MWL-42's were used in each location - front work lights, rear work lights and lights mounted in the grille guard. One TWL-20F was installed in the loader mounting tube on each side.

The front and rear work lights are mounted on small pieces of flat bar. Two holes drilled into the grille guard were all that was needed there. The two small square lights in the tubes are on an angle clip with a tapped hole and are fastened with a machine screw through a plain hole drilled in the tube.

The front work lights replaced the factory lights and the same wiring was reused. The wiring for the rear work lights existed from the factory. Since my tractor didn't have rear work lights from the factory the wiring was existing but unused previously. There's a pair of wires with plugs taped to each top rear flasher wiring on the exterior of the cab. There's an electrical plug in the cab roof behind one of the blank rectangular blank plugs and it matched the work light switch from Messicks. Plugs right in. I did cut the factory plugs off at the lights and butt spliced the new lights to them.

The two MWL-42's and the two TWL-20F's are wired together with new wiring from the existing headlights. Since the factory headlights are worthless anyway, I cut the wires going to the high beams and used them for the two grille lights and side lights. Twisting the light switch on the stalk one click gives me low beams for roading. Twisting to the second position kills the low beams and fires up the grille and side lights.

The other night when I was mowing I turned the front work lights off and there was still plenty of light. It was also kind of cozy without the hood being brightly illuminated. Below are links to the lights I used and a write-up from before. Added another pic looking through the door.

Maxxima Rectangular Work Light -2,1 Lumen - The Trailer Shoppe

Flood Light Bar 4 LED with 1,1 Lumens - The Trailer Shoppe

Lighting Revisited - OrangeTractorTalks - Everything Kubota

 

[sixdogs]

chim--Thank you. I now feel I understand the LED light situation and am ready tackle the lighting job I've postponed for far too long. Sometimes there aren't enough hours in the day and good lights buy lots of free time.

 

[sixdogs]

Does anyone know if LED replacement bulbs are available for the older halogen bulbs of 10 years ago? Pic below of mine. I've searched but see nothing.

 

[ptsg]

Does anyone know if LED replacement bulbs are available for the older halogen bulbs of 10 years ago? Pic below of mine. I've searched but see nothing.

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There are LED replacements for pretty much all types of bulbs. It's a matter of knowing what type bulb you have and do some research.

 

[sixdogs]

There are LED replacements for pretty much all types of bulbs. It's a matter of knowing what type bulb you have and do some research.

I looked pretty hard this AM and couldn't find any replacement, let alone an LED . I looked at farm sires like Shoup and Sloan's as well as the Internet in general. It's a sealed beam halogen and maybe that's the problem. Anything LED that I saw was either it's own self contained light or a replacement bulb only for replaceable bulb units.

 

[radios1]

I looked pretty hard this AM and couldn't find any replacement, let alone an LED . I looked at farm sires like Shoup and Sloan's as well as the Internet in general. It's a sealed beam halogen and maybe that's the problem. Anything LED that I saw was either it's own self contained light or a replacement bulb only for replaceable bulb units.

a self contained LED light is the replacement for a sealed beam halogen!..

 

[TimP]

you can buy a self-resetting circuit breaker that will fit the blade box, they use these for headlights on cars so you aren't without headlights for long..

I know it's an old post but I did just buy a self-resetting 20 AMP fuse.

Problem was..... it fit into the fuse socket, but sticks out too far to allow me to secure the cap back on the fuse bloc.

I really don't want to leave the fuse block exposed to more moisture and dust/dirt from the outside.