NX LED Lights

[cutthroat]

I've seen where some of you have replaced the factory exterior CAB lights with LED ones. What product have you all gone with? Did you have to custom make a bracket, able to use factory or ones provided by LED lights? Thanks

-Craig

 

[comancheflight]

36W LEDs from Ebay..
I reused most of the Kioti hardware (bracket and attaching bolt) along with two spacers and two 1" bolts. Makes for a factory look.
it is described with pictures on Erictheoracle thread 'MY NX6010' in Kioti Buying/Pricing post #1036. you also
can dig for Erics version which is much earlier in the same thread and also with pictures and description.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kioti-buying-pricing/315694-my-nx6010-104.html#post4305055

the only difference in mine vs. Eric is I reused all the Kioti mounting hardware and he used the one provided with the LED. Both work perfectly
so now my Kioti is less Chinese than his. lol...

 

[powerscol]

These folks have some interesting mounts.
ROPs Light Mounts
These folks have some good lights - not the cheap stuff.
https://motoalliance.com/Site.Store.go?action=showCategoryContents&catId=221

I posted an install on my Bobcat (Kioti clone) here.
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/customization/352434-20-sirius-professional-led-flood.html

Hope this helps in your search.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

I've seen where some of you have replaced the factory exterior CAB lights with LED ones. What product have you all gone with? Did you have to custom make a bracket, able to use factory or ones provided by LED lights? Thanks

-Craig

Craig,

I used the stock wiring on the Kioti cab crimping on the round, bullet style electrical ends onto the LED lights themselves.

Several notes about the lights:

You want flood lights, not spot lights.

The LED lights are brighter, but at 6000K, I've come to understand that the human eye needs more yellow light in order to better see definition. So if you can, try to find the lowest degrees kelvin you can. Mine are 6K, but I think I saw some newer 5K 36W flood lights in the same form factor.

Also, in order to use the brackets the lights came with, I did need to cut down the right front bracket and then paint it to keep the stock light bracket from rusting.

 

[cutthroat]

Thanks all for the information.

 

[countrybumpkin]

I used short pieces of aluminum angle to bolt the original led brackets to.

 

[RockyNY]

I used Kawell brand 36w LED from Amazon. Like Eric said, be sure to get floods....I made the mistake of getting one pair of spots. They fit on the factory brackets with no modification necessary, except bending the brackets slightly downward.

 

[countrybumpkin]

On the front I used spots on the top of the cab, then used floods on the sides of the cab under the front warning lights.

 

[tootsie1?]

I used Kawell brand 36w LED from Amazon. Like Eric said, be sure to get floods....I made the mistake of getting one pair of spots. They fit on the factory brackets with no modification necessary, except bending the brackets slightly downward.

How are these lights holding up? Do you still have the part number?

 

[MinnesotaEric]

How are these lights holding up? Do you still have the part number?

Ten years after the fact and my lights continue to hold up just fine. You can see from this snow blowing and plowing video of mine how well my LED flood lights work on my NX-series tractor starting as it gets dark around the 19 minute mark (the video below has shots from inside the cab as well as outside of the cab).

These are the 36W flood lights that are mounted on the front and rear of my tractor. Keep in mind that to install the rear lights, you will need to pull the 6 nuts from the cab top to lift the cab top up just enough to get the lights to tuck in ( you can do it alone and just shove in a block of wood to keep the cab's top propped up and out of the way. Also, not mentioned in my cab top video, the blend air door has a little red lever and at the end of the little lever is a cap that needs to be popped of to lift the cab's top up a bit. The cap comes off by pulling is straight down (use a small adjustable wrench to get on the cap's shoulders and pope it off which a sharp pull). See the cab video at this link.