MudRunnerTD's GQ From the Ground Up

[MudRunnerTD]

OK you've waited long enough. here is a selection of pics for you.

Firstly i have to say that i am really impressed with the light i get out of the LED light bar. I have taken 4 X 35W HIDs off the roof to replace with this light bar so they had a bit to live up to.

The 35w HIDs were great but had defined beams and gave me a bright spot at 4 locations within my field plus what i was throwing out front.

The LED Light Bar is just a great big Flood of Light without definition. Its like being at a footy match at night under lights, ya just turn it on and it is there. a Glow.

So here are some feed back for you

OK so my setup => 35w HiLo HID headlights, 240 XGT LF 35w HID conversion and now the 42" LED light bar.

In the photo the sign to the far left is 85m away and the trees are 105m in front of me. (paced out by me)

35wHID low beam = Not bad hey!



35w HID HiLo on High Beam



Hi Beams and LED Light bar on



Different location Hi Beams



Light bar and an oncoming unfortunately



I could easily drive around like that all night no probs. cant wait to get it into the tight bush where i think it will be like day light.

here are some looking back at the car.







In the next pic you can clearly see that the centre is spot lights and the outer sides of the light bar are spread beams

[patch697]

I know pics can do no real justice to the full effects of lighting but that is simply smashing MR.

So whats your opinion on light bar v HID's?

[growler2058]

Farrr out Thats awesome mate!!!!! Now theres an explanation for UFO sightings hahahaha

[AB]

Pretty damn impressive mate!!!

Looks like a space ship...lol....That's going on the wish list for sure!

[Yendor]

WOW.....that light is amazing.

Thanks for posting the pictures.

[Clunk]

they lookbloomin fantastic mate, cheers for that

[MudRunnerTD]

Cheers guys, I am really impressed with the light output so far and look forward to getting them into the tight stuff on the weekend where i think they will come into their own.

I know pics can do no real justice to the full effects of lighting but that is simply smashing MR.

So whats your opinion on light bar v HID's?

Paul the HIDs where great mate, no doubt. At the end of the day the expectation of a roof bar for me is to provided a good spread of light to the peripheral areas while the big spots where taken care of straight out the front by the front bar. For off roading i am not really chasing distance out of the roof bar.

That being said the 4 x 35w HIDs on the roof bar before where each set at different angles of may 30 & 15 degrees to each side of centre providing me a good spread. They where pointed maybe 30 to 40m in front of me and gave a distinct light beam to each point in the light spread pattern in my field of view. This was certainly workable and when it got tight was awesome.

This LED Light bar though, well it provided light to all areas that the HIDs would have thrown it and more, there is absolutely no definition of the beam and it is more of a Glow. I have read elsewhere someone describe it as "liquid light" and i think that that is an accurate description.

Am i happy? You bet! It was a tough call for me to splash the cash as i already had a great setup. But the special price offered by Bright Light Autos this month was very difficult to walk past.

If i was buying a lighting setup from scratch for the first time then LED technology would be the way to go for sure, and at those prices was well within reach. My problem was i had already spent my allocation for lighting on HID making the outlay quite daunting. Especially when they have been trying to sell this stuff to our industry for way over $1000 per uint! Damn!. oh well will try and recoup a little on the on-sell i guess.

For distance? the pics i posted of my HiLo Headlight set up shows good penetration at the 100m mark and bounce off other signs in the far distance for probably 300m, the LED light bar did not get close to that, Dont need it too though

I will try and get some more pics over the weekend when i hope to use this thing in anger

Cheers guys

Might make this pic my new avatar

[Bigrig]

I'm sold on em!! An amazing amount of light that as you say, would be awesome in the bush on tight roads etc.

[Mazodude]

Absolutely awesome
such a great read.

even if my GQ could be half of yours that would be sweet

[dasemm]

excellent read, and a great job on the truck !