BX22 new lights; well more like HID install! WOW

[jim_wilson]

This is what you need for seeing under the FEL when you have the bucket at a good travel height - just finished them last weekend.

 

[jim_wilson]

They shine right under the bucket and give a good view of the ground right in front of the tractor and for about 30 feet or so ahead.

 

[Barnboy]

Very nice job. I need to make some of those for my B3030 but I may need to get the alternator kit first. I hear the kit is around $150+. Do you have the std alt? How about a picture inside the tube so we can see how you have them mounted.

 

[jim_wilson]

When I bought the tractor I got the high amp alternator because I knew in the back of my head that I was going to want to add extra lights at some point. The mount for the lights inside the tube is pretty easy - I just drilled two holes in from the sides and screwed directly into the fog light housing. The lights I used are Hella DE mini fog lights. The inside ID of the tube is sized so the foglights themselves just slide inside the tube just right so they are contained by the tube id - then the self tapping bolts come in - one from each side and hold the light into the tube.

 

[gsxr1100]

Nice...I like it.

I just like the less work way for me. Plug-n-play... PLus no high amp alternator needed. :grin

Plus uses less electrons. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[hobbyfarm]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( an ultra -sound Sounds like a chainsaw at full throttle to a baby ears)</font>

Nope.
Not even a dog could hear it. Very high frequency.

 

[BGL990]

Yup, just looked it up. Medical ultrasound usually uses frequencies between 1 and 10 MHz (yes, MEGAhertz!). Abdominal ultrasound scans are usually 2.5 to 5 MHz - over 100 times higher than a human can hear. I don't think even a bat could hear that.
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ps. Nice lights!! I added some regular lights to my 990 way back, but with it's wimpy alternator the lower current used by HID along with the brightness makes it pretty tempting to change them over ...

 

[jim_wilson]

I think you pretty much need both - lower lights - and the headlights. When the bucket is on the ground I need the headlights to see what I am doing. The HID's are mucho cool though - I put a set of the Blazer light bulbs in my BX23 last year and those made a big difference over the regular bulbs. From your pics it looks like the HID's are even better than the Blazers. I might have to add the HID's to my list of wanted tractor mods. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[gsxr1100]

I agree I might need some lower lights. Might have to look into some HID for the lower part!

Next I will need some spinners too! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I have HID in my Lexus. Unreal how good there are.

 

[KirkMcD]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Yup, just looked it up. Medical ultrasound usually uses frequencies between 1 and 10 MHz (yes, MEGAhertz!). Abdominal ultrasound scans are usually 2.5 to 5 MHz - over 100 times higher than a human can hear.)</font>

Popular Science: Hey, Turn Down the Ultrasound
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Nothing thrills expectant parents like an ultrasound vision of their developing fetus. But Mostafa Fatemi of Minnesota's Mayo Clinic wondered why such fetuses always seem to move and stretch while their picture is taken. He found out by placing a tiny hydrophone inside a woman's uterus during the procedure. The device registered up to nearly 100 decibels -- as loud as a subway train. While we can't hear it, a fetus can, says Fatemi, because "a fetus's ears are filled with fluid, which is a better conductor of ultrasound waves than air." There's currently no evidence showing that such noise is harmful, but Fatemi says clinicians may want to aim their ultrasound probes more carefully, away from the baby's ears, "so we don't cause a fetus to move, roll, or stretch unnecessarily." )</font>