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Feb 24, 2018 | 09:57 AM

nmwolfer

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LED light bar

I am going to put LED light bars on my trucks. In researching I see that there are many different ones and options to choose from. I need ones that can take a pounding. If the forest service ever makes some improvements to the trail coming into my place here, then it will be good enough to be called bad, until they make improvements and they won't, it is way worse than bad. So I am looking for real bright light, a light that casts a good distance and a light that can take the pounding in and out of here. I recently had a flat bed built for my Dodge Cummins and they put a LED light in the headache rack and that light is amazing. But it is more of a flood light that lights up the bed. I am looking to buy LED light that casts a long beam in stead of a flood light to mount on my HD front bumpers. The lights on my 99 super duty get dimmer all the time and it is a pain polishing the lenses. So I thought a light bar would make up for the head lights being on the dim side. The extra light will be real nice so I can see the damn elk a little earlier than I do now, the extra light might give me that little extra time to avoid hitting one.
Anyways, I was wondering if anyone had a light that they would highly recommend.
Thanks

Feb 24, 2018 | 10:38 AM

Green Power

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Rigid is supposed to be the cream of the crop in terms of quality, auxbeam makes a projector lense for their lightbars that they call the 5d lense. My nilight lightbar works well for me.

Feb 24, 2018 | 10:41 AM

texastech_diesel

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Get a set of cab mounts and a 50" Rigid LED bar. Mounts are easy to find, this is just one example that should work with the two lights:
https://www.4wheelparts.com/Lighting...CABEgK8HvD_BwE

Rigid isn't cheap, but they're the best. You can get a combination spot/flood or driving/flood, spot would throw further than driving, but the floods at the edges make either a good combo:
https://www.rigidindustries.com/led-lighting/152313
https://www.rigidindustries.com/led-lighting/150313

Or another option that costs a lot less:
https://www.roughcountry.com/ford-up...SABEgK1__D_BwE
http://www.roughcountry.com/54-inch-...bar-72954.html

Feb 24, 2018 | 10:42 AM

TFLT

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I've had great service and lights from Kenny Larsen-

https://www.larsenlights.com/

Feb 24, 2018 | 11:14 AM

StrokinHer01

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We can only do so much with our trails man.....but I got one off eBay for $90 its bright and does the job.. had it for almost two years now look for high wattage lights

Feb 24, 2018 | 11:16 AM

Evan_P

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I wouldn't say Rigid is the best. Maybe the best high end option marketed but not the best. Look into Baja Designs. They started out making light for Baja 1000 racing teams then decided to sell to the public.

Feb 24, 2018 | 11:42 AM

texastech_diesel

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Baja Designs doesn't seem to make a 50" or 54" dual row, and their singe row caps out at 22600 lumens. They can feel awesome about you saying they're the best, but they don't make the correct product so they're useless to me.