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

[Code54]

I have a lot of the cheap cubes and 4 or 5 light bars on various eqpt and SxS's. They work great for the price and throw a ton of light. I use them on my machine because if they get broke I'm out very little. (funny thing is I never broke one yet).

Now on the Jeep I run all KC or Rigid lights - MUCH better beam pattern and quality is top notch. Cheap LEDs mostly are lacking in the reflector and thus the reason for the poor beam quality and complaints about light going all over and in peoples eyes. I run top quality LED headlights on my Wrangler and the beam cut off pattern in straight as a razor. Really impressive!

 

[FTG-05]

I like Nilight.

Same here, been very impressed with the light they put out on my RTV.

 

[mopardude318]

I like and use Rigid lights.

 

[Fallon]

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:

Same here with 1 of my 2 light bars. Technically it's the power supply, not the LEDs, but that's really a distinction without a difference. You can try some ferrite cores & things on the wires, but that's just a poor bandaid that rarely works. The solution is to properly design the power supply. Which more or less means get a higher quality light. I havent bothered replacing my bars with better ones that dont kill the radio yet.

 

[NTG]

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:

The Nilight's I bought off Amazon do that to my shop radio when I was bench testing them. Lucky for me I don't listen to a radio when I used my tractor.

 

[muskieken]

My Kubota was all halogen. Is there some benefit to halogen we are all missing? They get hot, they use lots more juice and they aren't as powerful. Must still be a cost issue, saving a dollar or two.

it's a very simple philosophy Halogen lights Get warm and melt the snow off Melt the ice off themselves... LED's do not get warm enough to do either

 

[ArlyA]

We've been using LED lights on snow machines for something over 10 years now. Yes, they get slightly warm which coats them with powder, but it makes no difference, if they are powerful enough, they'll throw there light right through it. In an earlier post I made in this thread, I suggested getting the most powerful ones you can get for a reasonable price and spot or flood makes little difference while working in snow. We use the spot type which of course get a little coating of snow and become more like floods, but they are so powerful, they still light up your work life. These work.

it's a very simple philosophy Halogen lights Get warm and melt the snow off Melt the ice off themselves... LED's do not get warm enough to do either

 

[Tiptoo]

Here is my setup. https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=397018

 

[jcri]

I’ve tried many a light bar and similar for everything from recreational off-roading to working around the property. These are in my opinion the best by far...

The are diffused.
https://www.amazon.com/Rigid-Industries-20251-Dually-Lens/dp/B007NKUMK8

 

[def38]

Your points are very valid, LED bars suck, IMHO. They're everywhere, mostly inefficient and have become a boutique status symbol for lots of folks.

I looked at my stash of flood work lamps and looks like I got three of them floating around in the tool box. I'll use one of them for the rear and purchase a short LED bar for the front.

I totally agree with you on the light temperature of LEDs and how they muck with our vision. Our eyes aren't made to work with the 6000+ cold white, almost bluish light that these LED bars put out these days. I prefer a warm white, around 3500 temperature for my eyes to work correctly.

Those fellas with aftermarket HIDs and LED headlight conversion are just a nuisance on the road.

The sweet spot for human eyes is 4300K color temperature. The factory automotive HID headlight systems use that color for their headlamps. Any thing different is junk. Now, you will see some rainbow color spillover from HIDs due to the cutoff mask used in projector HID headlamps. The cutoff is necessary to eliminate light directly in oncoming driver's eyes as well as backscatter when driving in haze/fog. On a tractor or off road vehicle, not so much. Select you lamp color temperature as close to 4300K as possible when choosing offroad lighting. It illuminates more efficiently.