You really shouldn't have the thing on while there is oncoming traffic. You will blind the crap out of them unless you have the thing pointed straight at the ground.

 

a 20" is as big as you can fit in that location, and that is with removing the stock fogs.

and yes, you will cause people to crash and kill a bus full of nuns.

these are VERY wide flood beam lights, even pointing them at 45* down would be too much for normal driving lights.

 

Even if they don't blind, I know a lot of states have very particular light laws like here in iowa. 4 directional (or properly aimed) lights are the max you can have on at once. The wording that describes the difference between a running light and a flood light is very grey but any of these bars would absolutely get you pulled over here.

Tlr 'off road use only' at least in states like Iowa law-wise.

 

Also, bcrew that looks more like almost 70 to 75 degrees as opposed to the 60 I see everywhere. I guess it makes sense that it would splash off right at about mid hood. And unless you are in a tunnel of tree it gives a lot of light to the stars too...

 

I'm not complaining, driving 50% of the time in the dark, on more rural roads, it's exactly what I wanted, but it is all over the place.
This is a combo flood/spot, but stated 60* in the info.

 

Very nice post, Brew! Very effective way of showing how and where the light is shining, thanks

 

Okay, after seeing the pics of the light on the hood I had to go out and take a few quick shots of my set up.

First, when I first mounted the light it was on the underside of the alum basket I mounted on the top roof. After the first winter, and seeing the amount of snow the basket held, that turned to ice way to quickly, I decided to remove the basket for the winters. That left a bit of a void for the light to mount to hence the push to build a mount to go to above the doors, yet low enough to not interfere with the basket.
I do remember when mounted to the basket I did get some light splash on the hood, and now I don't, as the pics show. On the basket it was mounted at least 3" higher and about that further to the front.






Conveniently parked about 2 feet from the garage, and you can see the cut off reflection that happens from the top of the roof. I will eventually be going to a dual row up there, when the canadian dollar gets closer to par with the us, as I order a bunch from the factory in china and sell the extras to cover my cost of the bar. Hopefully this won't take long.

I don't think the dual row will even be tall enough to make an impact on the light hitting the top of the hood. That said, when I do drive thru a bug storm, they do reflect a bit in the light into your eyes, but you learn to ignore that and focus past them on the road.

While I feel the front mount gets rid of the eye glare, I still think the top roof mount offers a better light dispersion on the road for view. That one can be debated tho, but I have had light mounted in both positions over the years and have some experience with the set ups.

 

Hey Captain, can you share the brand of the backup lights you're holding? Thanks.

 

amazon specials, they're all the same thing, different sticker on the box

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss...tomotive%2C483

 

Could you pass along exactly what yours are? Thank you.

 

IIRC using the fog light wiring would make the LED bar be on with the low beams and off with the high beams -- seems about backwards from how they ought to be if there is ANY CHANCE of oncoming traffic.

 

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