new thread to keep my wheeling one from getting cluttered.
i want to put 2 on the push bar and 2 on the flat part of the winch bumper.
2 i want for driving the other 2 for flood lights.
best bang for the buck lights is what im looking for? anybody got any good ideas?
Well, you can spend a bunch of money on nice ones... coupla hundred a pop or more for some of the PIAA's and Lightforces. You can get real HID and exotic gas types, great stuff if you're doing Kalahari or outback runs.
You can spend a mediumish chunk of change on, say, KC's or Hellas -- I'm partial to the latter. Decent light, reliable, less than $100 a pair.
Or you can use the el-cheapos from your local parts house or, in a fit of wanting to rejoin the 80's, chrome ones from Harbor Freight when they were on sale for like eight bucks a pop.
The round Hellas are a great long-distance "driving" light; they also have "fog" lights, wider dispersal. I've had a couple sets of the 550, a rectangular mount, comes in both white and amber.
The white "fog" type lights might do well for night trails and rock, versus the "driving" lights for higher speed stuff.
The cheapos have a totally unreliable dispersal pattern, but have that Fall Guy monster truck vibe -- and I had to have SOMETHING chrome
Another thing to note that, particularly on the cheap and medium priced stuff that uses the regular H3 and H4 bulbs, is that the higher output bulbs don't last for sh!t. I'd have to Google the numbers for specifics, but the average life of a 55W bulb is like four times that of the 100W. You can get something crazy like 150W bulbs, but their life expectancy is shorter than that of a weasel on acid running in traffic.
Unless you really wanna drop coin, I'd stick with a medium-priced brand name, 55Wish per, and be done with it.
-- A
