Side view LED lights

[4shorts]

In this case I only wanted the light to be on each side of the FEL in the front pointing straight from the left and right side so motorests would see me side on if they were coming up on me if I was backed into a driveway with my FEL pointing out towards the road. The top cab light is an actual double strobe light that can be seen at 360 degrees. Putting these lights on the front of the FEL gives me lighting all over the tractor.

 

[patrick_g]

In this case I only wanted the light to be on each side of the FEL in the front pointing straight from the left and right side so motorests would see me side on if they were coming up on me if I was backed into a driveway with my FEL pointing out towards the road. The top cab light is an actual double strobe light that can be seen at 360 degrees. Putting these lights on the front of the FEL gives me lighting all over the tractor.

Oh, no problem 4shorts, I was just expanding Shawn's horizons. I agree completely with your installation.

...and furthermore... some LED's have a scattering medium in their lens (top of their plastic encapsulation) and send out light in 2 pi steradians (hemispherically.) LED's are available with any number of beam "half angles."

Pat

 

[medicshawn]

I still think you get better coverage from a strobe. Led's are getting better every day but there is alot of engineering required to make them have broad coverage. Led's are definitely the future. Low current draw, incredible life, and super bright. Just not perfected. The Led lightbars (blue)our police department uses are so bright they had to turn the power down.

It doesn't really matter what warning lights you install people still aren't paying attention. Emergency vehicles loaded with lights get hit every day. The most dangerous parts of my job are driving to and from a call, and working on the Highway. It's really hard to work and hope cars zipping by at 70 MPH don't hit you. If I had A dollar for every idiot who almost hit me I could be retired.

 

[4shorts]

I still think you get better coverage from a strobe. Led's are getting better every day but there is alot of engineering required to make them have broad coverage. Led's are definitely the future. Low current draw, incredible life, and super bright. Just not perfected. The Led lightbars (blue)our police department uses are so bright they had to turn the power down.

I'm very familiar with the newer light bars. We install them here in our shop for government related customers. These are strobe just LED strobe. You would have to see these in person to appreciate just how bright they are. They are called Super Nova LED's so they got that name due to how bright they are. I also like the fact that there low power consumption and I really don't think the regular strobe would take the punishment considering where there located on the tractor.

Here in Newfoundland we are not permitted to use blue or red lights on our machines. Only Department of Highways are permitted to do so along with government vehicles. I'm happy with these lights. I really don't want to blind on coming vehicles so they will run into me

 

[Window Geek]

... send out light in 2 pi steradians (hemispherically.) ...
Pat

What?

I got 2. I got pi. I got hemispherically. What was the other term?
Aren't those banned in baseball now?

Actually, I've been looking into LEDs. Don't have to upgrade the alternator with such low current draw. Are there any LED work lights? It would be nice to pile on the illumination without cooking the wiring.

 

[patrick_g]

What?

I got 2. I got pi. I got hemispherically. What was the other term?
Aren't those banned in baseball now?

Actually, I've been looking into LEDs. Don't have to upgrade the alternator with such low current draw. Are there any LED work lights? It would be nice to pile on the illumination without cooking the wiring.

The other term is descriptive of a solid angle as in spherical trigonometry. It is a 3D vice 2D measurement. Whereas in 2D trig there is 360 degrees in a circle (or 2 pi radians) in spherical trig a sphere is 4 pi steradians so a hemisphere is 2 pi steradians.

MedicShawn: I have no beef with conventional strobes (Xenon gas with capacitor discharge) as I have worked with them for a while when I was consulting to an aircraft illumination company. I helped design units for fuselage and wingtip mounting. An outgrowth was "strobe whips" (strobe light on a whip antenna for use on dune buggies. I used powerful strobes to "pump" a liquid laser in a research program I did for upper division physics credit. I LIKE STROBES but I stand behind my original comments.

Pat

 

[4shorts]

You guys are just getting to technical for me patrick_g you know your stuff sir. Tip my lid to you. I'm happy with what's there now weather I did good or did bad by putting them there. I've also replaced the tractor lights with these.

 

[patrick_g]

You guys are just getting to technical for me patrick_g you know your stuff sir. Tip my lid to you. I'm happy with what's there now weather I did good or did bad by putting them there. I've also replaced the tractor lights with these.

Nifty looking lights! Interestingly enough, there have been new developments in filament lights that boosted efficiency well above fluorescent lights. Unfortunately making the filaments manufactureable/mass producible and therefore practical outside of the lab has not been accomplished yet so far as I know. They run at a higher color temp than typical tungsten filament bulbs and could sage many megawatt hours of electricity and tons of CO2 when/if available at the local store.

Pat

 

[medicshawn]

Ok I want to see the strobe whip.

The new Led light bars are spectacular. I have no practical use for one but I would definitely buy one if they weren't so expensive.

 

[medicshawn]

4 Shorts I change my argument here's what you need.

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