Yet Another Set of ROPS Lights

LBrown59 · Jan 13, 2005

( The cigarette lighter accessory receptacle. )~*~*~*
What are you going to use the receptacle for?

Bowhunter · Jan 13, 2005

Not speaking for rswyan but for myself, I may install one on my tractor also because I have an electric seeder and an electric sprayer that I currently use on an atv and they plug into a cigarette outlet.

rswyan · Jan 14, 2005

( Nice clean setup you got there. I used a bed rail for mine. I think I will do as you did with the trailer plug as a quick disconnect. That's a great idea. )

Jim,

Thanks, glad to be of help. It's interesting ... my viewpoint on old bedrails (and other scrap) has changed considerably since I got my welder. Having banged my shins on bedrails more times than I care to think about I find myself actually hoping I'll run into some whenever I'm out and about. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

rswyan · Jan 14, 2005

Bowhunter,

Thanks, glad this was of some use. You are correct on the aux power outlet - one of the primary reasons I wanted it was for a sprayer, which I plan on building later this winter (provided I get some of the other projects completed first /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif )

Aside from that, I'll probably throw a lighter element in the toolbox, just in case I find myself without matches or a lighter and wanting to light up.

rswyan · Jan 14, 2005

Mike,

Thanks. I suspect you are entirely correct on the HF lights. Aside from the junky quality, I've since noticed that the lights apparently are available with several different beam patterns - spot, flood, and trapezoid. I remember when I picked them up reading the package and trying to determine which ones they were - and going into a confusion because of how they were marked. I suspect that they might be trap's - or even worse, spots - I really wanted floods. I've tossed the package insert awhile back so I can't look at it again, but next time I'm down at HF I'll have another look.

I could probably live with the pattern if the mounts weren't so poor - they are just worthless as far as trying to aim with any precision. I can slide the bar to angle it side to side, since it's a magnetic mount - it's the tilt angle that's the really big problem.

So what did you finally end up using ?

rswyan · Jan 14, 2005

LB,

Thanks. Yeah, it's funny how a difference in one's viewpoint can render things in a whole different light - glad you were able to see your solution in what I posted. Be sure to post some pics of yours when you have it complete. Always looking for the better mousetrap. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

JimR · Jan 14, 2005

Here are my lights made up on a bed rail. I attached mine using u-bolts that I made up.

LBrown59 · Jan 14, 2005

( Mike,

Thanks. I suspect you are entirely correct on the HF lights. Aside from the junky quality, I've since noticed that the lights apparently are available with several different beam patterns - spot, flood, and trapezoid. I remember when I picked them up reading the package and trying to determine which ones they were - and going into a confusion because of how they were marked. I suspect that they might be trap's - or even worse, spots - I really wanted floods. I've tossed the package insert awhile back so I can't look at it again, but next time I'm down at HF I'll have another look.

I could probably live with the pattern if the mounts weren't so poor - they are just worthless as far as trying to aim with any precision. I can slide the bar to angle it side to side, since it's a magnetic mount - it's the tilt angle that's the really big problem.

So what did you finally end up using ? )

it's the tilt angle that's the really big problem 

Tilt the bar not the light.

rswyan · Jan 14, 2005

Jim.

Ah yeah - I caught that post where you were using the ROPS/canopy as a lift. I had been trying to find square u-bolts around here - seems like most of the places only carry the round ones. Then I had occassion to go down to TSC day before yesterday - went to a different one than I usually go to - found out that they had just moved into a new location which was about 10 miles closer. They had them there.

Looks good - the front facing lights look like some big honkin' units. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

rswyan · Jan 14, 2005

( Tilt the bar not the light. )

LB,

There's a couple of problems with doing this:

1. The bar the lights are mounted to is fixed parallel to the top of the ROPS tube (which itself is inclined slightly to the rear) by virtue of being bolted to the magnetic mounts. Reworking the magnetic mounts so that they allowed a tilt adjustment on the bar probably could be done but even so it doesn't solve the second problem:

2. I have two front facing lights and two rearward facing lights and the tilt angle will never be the same for both and I don't want to readjust them every time I change from using one set to the other.

Basically I would like to get them aimed where I want them and then leave them set. If I pull the lightbar and reinstall it later I will probably have to slide it around a little to get them pointing correctly (forward/rearward) but that should be minimal and pretty easy to do.