Why spotlights on older Class A'?

FIRE UP wrote:

Mile High wrote:

FIRE UP wrote:

usersmanual wrote:

FIRE UP wrote:
We have one on our '04 Itasca Horizon 36GD and, it's come in handy for various purposes every now and then. Ours even is equipped with a remote that you have the option for speedy scanning of an area or, slow scanning. I don't go crazy with it, just use it on occasion. Of course you don't blind or displease fellow campers with it, use some common sense.

Scott

as far as I have ever seen(quite a few) there always remote control
would be pretty useless if they were not

I was referring to the fact that the "remote" that I have can be carried outside, unlike joystick, and I can aim that light from quite a distance away if the circumstances dictated such movement.
Scott

fire up, was that factory on your Horizon? Or did you add it?

Mile High,
The spot light on our coach was factory installed. It's called a "Golight". There's two models, a white one and a chrome one. Ours is the chrome one. In the 2004 Horizon Brochure, it's listed as an option all all models of that year. It's been quite handy in various situations, REGARDLESS of who thinks the remote is of value or not. I've used it for folks with engine troubles at night and I could be right where they are while lending a hand, and use the remote to help concentrate the light where it was most needed at the time.

I've used it in many camping situations in the evening helping guide friends in to our area. It's pretty handy, if and when needed, as opposed to a well-working higher powered flashlight that's sold now days.
Scott

Thanks Scott - it wasn't an option on ours. I may look at the Golight in my link above - LED 2.5M candlepower and it looks easy to install! (arrrr)

Mile High wrote:

FIRE UP wrote:

usersmanual wrote:

FIRE UP wrote:
We have one on our '04 Itasca Horizon 36GD and, it's come in handy for various purposes every now and then. Ours even is equipped with a remote that you have the option for speedy scanning of an area or, slow scanning. I don't go crazy with it, just use it on occasion. Of course you don't blind or displease fellow campers with it, use some common sense.

Scott

as far as I have ever seen(quite a few) there always remote control
would be pretty useless if they were not

I was referring to the fact that the "remote" that I have can be carried outside, unlike joystick, and I can aim that light from quite a distance away if the circumstances dictated such movement.
Scott

fire up, was that factory on your Horizon? Or did you add it?

Mile High,
The spot light on our coach was factory installed. It's called a "Golight". There's two models, a white one and a chrome one. Ours is the chrome one. In the 2004 Horizon Brochure, it's listed as an option all all models of that year. It's been quite handy in various situations, REGARDLESS of who thinks the remote is of value or not. I've used it for folks with engine troubles at night and I could be right where they are while lending a hand, and use the remote to help concentrate the light where it was most needed at the time.

I've used it in many camping situations in the evening helping guide friends in to our area. It's pretty handy, if and when needed, as opposed to a well-working higher powered flashlight that's sold now days.
Scott

down home wrote:
Could use one on our mh.
Can't read road signs at night. Try holing a flash light out door while going 5 mph.

You can have it by Thursday :)

Remote LED Spotlight

Installed by Sunday!

Could use one on our mh.
Can't read road signs at night. Try holing a flash light out door while going 5 mph.

Spot Lights, Police Cars EMS/Paramedic, and Taxi Cabs often have spotlights..
All for the same reason.. To spot with.

Seriously, The police use them for two reaons, one is to look down alleys and such for evidence of illegal activity but also to better/more easily read street names on the signs and addresses on houses, Same for EMS/paramedic and Taxi.. They need to know where they are/going

For RVers we often are taking the road we have never traveled before, Sometimes (often) in the day but sometimes at night, and often those street name signs are not where our headlights work well.. I wear a TC-1200 flashlight but the spotlight.. Performs that function it can light up the sign so we know "Not this road" or perhaps "this road" even after dark.

Why on older and not so much newer rigs.. GPS of course.

Acampingwewillgo wrote:
I have one that can be a "spot light" or "flood light"

Guess I never thought about using it to scan a camp site at night. I probably would have if I had come up on that situation.

FIRE UP wrote:

usersmanual wrote:

FIRE UP wrote:
We have one on our '04 Itasca Horizon 36GD and, it's come in handy for various purposes every now and then. Ours even is equipped with a remote that you have the option for speedy scanning of an area or, slow scanning. I don't go crazy with it, just use it on occasion. Of course you don't blind or displease fellow campers with it, use some common sense.

Scott

as far as I have ever seen(quite a few) there always remote control
would be pretty useless if they were not

I was referring to the fact that the "remote" that I have can be carried outside, unlike joystick, and I can aim that light from quite a distance away if the circumstances dictated such movement.
Scott

fire up, was that factory on your Horizon? Or did you add it?

FIRE UP wrote:

usersmanual wrote:

FIRE UP wrote:
We have one on our '04 Itasca Horizon 36GD and, it's come in handy for various purposes every now and then. Ours even is equipped with a remote that you have the option for speedy scanning of an area or, slow scanning. I don't go crazy with it, just use it on occasion. Of course you don't blind or displease fellow campers with it, use some common sense.

Scott

as far as I have ever seen(quite a few) there always remote control
would be pretty useless if they were not

I was referring to the fact that the "remote" that I have can be carried outside, unlike joystick, and I can aim that light from quite a distance away if the circumstances dictated such movement.
Scott

could be but that's not what you indicated when u posted.Had you clarified such I would have understood although I don't see the hand remote as particularly usefull,I use mine with the remote joystick when Iam actually driving into a dark spot

usersmanual wrote:

FIRE UP wrote:
We have one on our '04 Itasca Horizon 36GD and, it's come in handy for various purposes every now and then. Ours even is equipped with a remote that you have the option for speedy scanning of an area or, slow scanning. I don't go crazy with it, just use it on occasion. Of course you don't blind or displease fellow campers with it, use some common sense.

Scott

as far as I have ever seen(quite a few) there always remote control
would be pretty useless if they were not

I was referring to the fact that the "remote" that I have can be carried outside, unlike joystick, and I can aim that light from quite a distance away if the circumstances dictated such movement.
Scott

Acampingwewillgo wrote:
I have looked those light bars's and think I will add one. I did add a couple of driving lights which helps quite a bit but you can never have enough light when it's pitch black outside driving down the road. Thanks for the recommendation.

it works great because each side of the light bar is beamed at left and right of roadway and the middle section straight ahead
I have a remote control on/off switch I use as I travel so I don't annoy a oncoming vehicle