LED Light Bar Install on TC or Truck, anyone do this

This thread kinda evolved into a who's bigger competition... Well, I think this guy wins!

https://youtu.be/Pit33Lng2so

Sorry can't make a clicky from my phone

Kayteg1 wrote:

SidecarFlip wrote:


Interesting. All 3 deer hits I've suffered (2 totalled the vehicle and one was 2000 bucks in damage) we all from deer that came into the side of my vehicle, not the front and I never saw any of them because lights don't go around the sides.

Same here. The only deer I hit come from the left corner.
I have better than average reaction time, but 1/2 second at 60 mph is not giving you time to do anything.
All I could see was a shade in corner of my eye and immediate BUM.
Thanks to 1999 Superduty front bumper none of the radiators got ruptured and I could drive home.
Bumper look funny, reminding moose horns.
Now not truck mounted, but I just bought this babe.
I have a mountain about 1 mile away and that small gizmo will spot any movement on it.
Mountain peak is 1300' above the street level . Will see it in total dark as well.
So there is cheap revenge for stupid users of truck mounted LEDs.

All of mine were in SUV's not my F350. I don't drive my truck except to haul the TC and the goose neck around. Wiped out 2 SUV's (Insurance replaced both) and the last one, a Tahoe, took 2 grand worth of sheet metal damage but none of the deer succumbed to the impact, they walked away...lol One thing I've learned from experience is that a buck on the scent of a doe, sees nothing, just goes and if you are in the way, he smashes into you. Car, truck deer crashes are the number one damage accident in this state (Michigan) and it's 'bumper deer season' right now. I'm extremely careful this time of year in the early morning and evening as well as through the night.

SidecarFlip wrote:


Interesting. All 3 deer hits I've suffered (2 totalled the vehicle and one was 2000 bucks in damage) we all from deer that came into the side of my vehicle, not the front and I never saw any of them because lights don't go around the sides.

Same here. The only deer I hit come from the left corner.
I have better than average reaction time, but 1/2 second at 60 mph is not giving you time to do anything.
All I could see was a shade in corner of my eye and immediate BUM.
Thanks to 1999 Superduty front bumper none of the radiators got ruptured and I could drive home.
Bumper look funny, reminding moose horns.
Now not truck mounted, but I just bought this babe.
I have a mountain about 1 mile away and that small gizmo will spot any movement on it.
Mountain peak is 1300' above the street level . Will see it in total dark as well.
So there is cheap revenge for stupid users of truck mounted LEDs.

Just bought and installed a pair of 4000 lumen CREE SMD LED lights (6, 10 watt Cree's in aluminum housings on my one Ag tractor up high mount and they are wicked. Certainly eye fryers. I'll have to use discretion except in the field of course.

trail-explorer wrote:

TxGearhead wrote:
Opinions are like elbows.....my opinion is if you are trying to avoid hitting wildlife the last thing I would do is turn a lot of light on them. I think all you're doing is blinding them.

The benefit of all the light is that your site distance is longer, so you can see them sooner, and slow down sooner, hopefully avoiding hitting them. That's one reason people want aux lights.

Or in the desert, where there's no ambient lighting from houses, businesses, street lights, people want more light to see further.

THat's why Baja 1000 racers use eleventy-billion watts of lights on their race vehicles - longer sight distance.
OOPS, maybe they only run 1.21 jiga watts, powered by a flux capacitor

Interesting. All 3 deer hits I've suffered (2 totalled the vehicle and one was 2000 bucks in damage) we all from deer that came into the side of my vehicle, not the front and I never saw any of them because lights don't go around the sides.

TxGearhead wrote:
Opinions are like elbows.....my opinion is if you are trying to avoid hitting wildlife the last thing I would do is turn a lot of light on them. I think all you're doing is blinding them.

The benefit of all the light is that your site distance is longer, so you can see them sooner, and slow down sooner, hopefully avoiding hitting them. That's one reason people want aux lights.

Or in the desert, where there's no ambient lighting from houses, businesses, street lights, people want more light to see further.

THat's why Baja 1000 racers use eleventy-billion watts of lights on their race vehicles - longer sight distance.
OOPS, maybe they only run 1.21 jiga watts, powered by a flux capacitor

Opinions are like elbows.....my opinion is if you are trying to avoid hitting wildlife the last thing I would do is turn a lot of light on them. I think all you're doing is blinding them.

I just flick them. It gets their attention so they know I have a set of eyeball burners under my finger. Never had to leave them on for more than a second.

Amazing how fast the LED light bar gets turned off. There isn't a LED light bar made that can compare to a set of 160 watt Halogen Daylighters. Effective (visible) range is over a mile.

ticki2 wrote:

SidecarFlip wrote:

jplante4 wrote:

Grit dog wrote:
For those complaining about them, you must not drive many/any dark roads with little to no traffic, no ambient lighting and abundant wildlife.
Just in the last 2 weeks, on my job, 1 elk has been tagged by a company truck...

There are no elk on Sandwich Rd. next to the canal on Cape Cod. There are buttheads in Jeeps with very brights LED bumper lights tho.

You need a set of Daylighters like I have. Amazing how a quick flick of the on toggle changes their minds about bright lights....:D

As their eyeballs get cooked in their eye sockets, they realize they don't have the brightest lights anymore.

About the only time I use the. A great deterrent to obnoxious idiots.

The trouble with that solution is that now you have two blind drivers heading towards each other .

Something wrong with that?:S

SidecarFlip wrote:

jplante4 wrote:

Grit dog wrote:
For those complaining about them, you must not drive many/any dark roads with little to no traffic, no ambient lighting and abundant wildlife.
Just in the last 2 weeks, on my job, 1 elk has been tagged by a company truck...

There are no elk on Sandwich Rd. next to the canal on Cape Cod. There are buttheads in Jeeps with very brights LED bumper lights tho.

You need a set of Daylighters like I have. Amazing how a quick flick of the on toggle changes their minds about bright lights....:D

As their eyeballs get cooked in their eye sockets, they realize they don't have the brightest lights anymore.

About the only time I use the. A great deterrent to obnoxious idiots.

The trouble with that solution is that now you have two blind drivers heading towards each other .