Your favorite LED light bar from amazon that's flood only

[ArlyA]

I've used many ATV's and UTV's and sleds to groom ski trails with and we usually don't have to deal with other machines out there and that's what you see in these photos. High mounted LED's are by far, the most important lights we have on them. Having said that, same as you do with brights on your auto, you need to turn them off when meeting other machines. I believe all you'll see in these photos is spot lights.

Arly, I agree with you on cheap bright light, but I'm stumped.
What are you driving? What are you pulling? Way cool tracked vehicle.
Nice that snow reflects light.

Some of these super, super bright lights need to be carefully used and turned off, as mentioned before,
when traffic approaches on the road. You can blind the person coming and then they run into you. Not good.

to OP, sorry, this is not about flood lights, we sure get off track

 

[Jchonline]

I like Nilight.

 

[ArlyA]

Huuuummm, I'll add a few night operation photos and I'll show the light setup on one machine. The yellow in the first photo is the strobe firing.

 

[soler]

ORBM20-54WS-x from LED Lights, Bulbs & LED Lighting Accessories | superbrightleds.com and select flood/spot.
Not Amazon, but......
I'm about to get some of these. This website has a good selection of lights, wiring, and switches.

 

[NTG]

It seems like there must be about three companies making all these spotlights and bars and then one hundred other Chinese companies or vendors slap a different name on them and sell the exact same thing, for a wide range of prices. They look amazingly similar...

I agree, but isn't that the case with most products? Years ago I worked in a Sherwin Williams distribution center and my job was keeping the line supplied with labels. We had at least a dozen different brand labels for every can that came off the shelf. I ordered some of the Nilights from Amazon also. A 21" s/f for front, a 13" (I think) s/f for rear, and a 4" flood for each side. They don't look that bright in the shop, but it'll probably be different once I get them out in the dark. I've only mounted them on a mounting plate for my ROPS so far, but they look pretty decent quality to me with everything you needed in the box. I ordered their wiring harness too along with a "Sasquatch Lights" rocker switch that I couldn't resist. I couldn't come close to the price of these even at Harbor Freight.

 

[NTG]

You may not like it but time to wake up and live in the real world. We have imported their low end merch forever since Dollar Generals seem insatiable, Harbor Freight, etc. But China has high end manufacturing too.

Ah, I agree with this too..... didn't finish reading your entire post. You want cheap, they'll make it cheap, you want quality, they'll do that, it'll just cost more. It's all about how much the contracting company wants to pay for quality control. 'Course, I don't know if that price covers the plans going out the back-door to the boot-leggers who'll be selling the same thing tomorrow.

 

[NTG]

I mean that's just plain stupid to sell a brand new design tractor, and mine is, with less effective shorter lasting lights.
Factory lights, particularly the fashion oriented headlights, are useless, often blocked by FEL. You really need more light up top.

That's what gets me..... what's the point of headlights at all if they're going to be blocked by your bucket? Redesign it on the loader arms or the ROPS or wherever, but come on..... how difficult is that? I guess it comes down to that additional 12 cents that's going to throw off the bottom-line for the investors.

 

[daugen]

I like Nilight.

I looked over their site. Remarkably inexpensive, most popular on Amazon.
When you get to the larger wattage bars, they don't quote lumens, which I find interesting.
When the price range is 25 to 75 bucks now, why not buy more light? Most tractor alternators put out way
more juice than we ever use. Particularly if you disconnect those halogens.

 

[ArlyA]

I used to try judge lights by the lumens but subsequently gave up. I don't think the guys in China list them honestly. After setting up my 6th machine to work at night, I now just buy the most powerful lights, that don't break the bank. Not the most costly lights by far! Each year since I started doing this some 12+ years ago, the LED lights have gotten better and brighter, each year. Like I said in my earlier post, we'd put thousands of hours on them in 6 years life of the machine and only had one fail. And trust me, these lights have gotten bright over the years. Even the 4 for $30 on Amazon are pretty darn good.

I looked over their site. Remarkably inexpensive, most popular on Amazon.
When you get to the larger wattage bars, they don't quote lumens, which I find interesting.
When the price range is 25 to 75 bucks now, why not buy more light? Most tractor alternators put out way
more juice than we ever use. Particularly if you disconnect those halogens.

 

[dennis103]

I put 4 cheep LED lights on my cabbed tractor. The light out put is excellent and they look good. The only problem I have is when I turn them on my radio fuzzes out so you get no reception. After researching my problem I discovered that some of the cheep LED lights send off enough RF frequency to interfere with radios. :confused2: