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SteveS

Member Since: 05 Oct 2010
Location: Devon & Berkshire
Posts: 388

2009 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 USW Santorini Black

LED light bar - Christmas pressy to myself

As some of you may recall I've been thinking about what type of lights to put on the roof of my truck - standard halogen, HID or LED. Eventually decided on LED 40" E Series light bar from Rigid Industries supplied and fitted by Devon 4x4. 15800 Lumens.

Immediate thoughts:
instant on/off
very white light - makes the other lights look like candles......oh no another upgrade coming
good on and off axis coverage - perfect for the moors and other places I'm travelling to

I have put some piccies of the configuration here

http://s1178.photobucket.com/albums/x373/DevonSteveS/

And a video here. Go a couple of minutes into the video where you will hear my boring voice explaining the 3 different settings. The quality isn't great and I will retake the video with a constant aperture camera in the next few days - but you get the gist

25th Dec 2011 10:06am

fekete

Member Since: 24 Dec 2008
Location: Here on the other end of the computer
Posts: 3626

2007 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 HT Bonatti Grey

NEVER TAKE LIFE SERIOUSLY. NOBODY GETS OUT ALIVE ANYWAY

25th Dec 2011 10:20am

T1G UP

Member Since: 08 Dec 2009
Location: Bath
Posts: 3101

2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Orkney Grey

a great improvement over the headlamps. So Led light kit and Led headlamps to match now then?!

25th Dec 2011 10:22am

SteveS

Member Since: 05 Oct 2010
Location: Devon & Berkshire
Posts: 388

T1G UP wrote:
a great improvement over the headlamps. So Led light kit and Led headlamps to match now then?!

That's the natural conclusion I came to......

CAn't wait another Christmas for them though

25th Dec 2011 10:25am

T1G UP

Member Since: 08 Dec 2009
Location: Bath
Posts: 3101

SteveS wrote:
T1G UP wrote:
a great improvement over the headlamps. So Led light kit and Led headlamps to match now then?!

That's the natural conclusion I came to......

CAn't wait another Christmas for them though

It gets expensive! £2500 on light upgrades

looks great though

25th Dec 2011 10:27am

bpman

Member Since: 21 May 2008
Location: Oslo
Posts: 8069

2008 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 SVX Station Wagon Santorini Black

Steve

Are you going to go for a mat black wrap over the bonnet or do you not get a reflection ?

25th Dec 2011 10:29am

bpman

Member Since: 21 May 2008
Location: Oslo
Posts: 8069

delete

25th Dec 2011 10:29am

SteveS

Member Since: 05 Oct 2010
Location: Devon & Berkshire
Posts: 388

bpman wrote:
Steve

Are you going to go for a mat black wrap over the bonnet or do you not get a reflection ?

I forgot to add to my post that I do not get a reflection. I asked D44 to set the bar just far enough back that the front lip of cab roof shadows the bonnet bulge to a degree - and the thing is mounted on slides with +/- 2" of travel so I could set them farther back if i needed to

There is some stray light of course on the bonnet and my passenger asked if the illuminated snorkel head bothered me - but I can't see that from the driver's seat.

No plans to buy a matt black covering - that was my fall-back if the original plans did not go well......or to mount the bar directly onto the top of the bumper

25th Dec 2011 10:43am

BigRuss

Member Since: 15 May 2010
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 2785

2010 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 USW Santorini Black

SteveS wrote:
bpman wrote:
Steve

Are you going to go for a mat black wrap over the bonnet or do you not get a reflection ?

I forgot to add to my post that I do not get a reflection. I asked D44 to set the bar just far enough back that the front lip of cab roof shadows the bonnet bulge to a degree - and the thing is mounted on slides with +/- 2" of travel so I could set them farther back if i needed to

There is some stray light of course on the bonnet and my passenger asked if the illuminated snorkel head bothered me - but I can't see that from the driver's seat.

No plans to buy a matt black covering - that was my fall-back if the original plans did not go well......or to mount the bar directly onto the top of the bumper

If you mounted to to the bumper you could class it as a fog light and drive round all the time within on

Russell
2011MY 110 XS USW Black

25th Dec 2011 11:05am

bpman

Member Since: 21 May 2008
Location: Oslo
Posts: 8069

BigRuss wrote:
SteveS wrote:
bpman wrote:
Steve

Are you going to go for a mat black wrap over the bonnet or do you not get a reflection ?

I forgot to add to my post that I do not get a reflection. I asked D44 to set the bar just far enough back that the front lip of cab roof shadows the bonnet bulge to a degree - and the thing is mounted on slides with +/- 2" of travel so I could set them farther back if i needed to

There is some stray light of course on the bonnet and my passenger asked if the illuminated snorkel head bothered me - but I can't see that from the driver's seat.

No plans to buy a matt black covering - that was my fall-back if the original plans did not go well......or to mount the bar directly onto the top of the bumper

If you mounted to to the bumper you could class it as a fog light and drive round all the time within on

25th Dec 2011 11:08am

SteveS

Member Since: 05 Oct 2010
Location: Devon & Berkshire
Posts: 388

BigRuss wrote:
SteveS wrote:
bpman wrote:
Steve

Are you going to go for a mat black wrap over the bonnet or do you not get a reflection ?

I forgot to add to my post that I do not get a reflection. I asked D44 to set the bar just far enough back that the front lip of cab roof shadows the bonnet bulge to a degree - and the thing is mounted on slides with +/- 2" of travel so I could set them farther back if i needed to

There is some stray light of course on the bonnet and my passenger asked if the illuminated snorkel head bothered me - but I can't see that from the driver's seat.

No plans to buy a matt black covering - that was my fall-back if the original plans did not go well......or to mount the bar directly onto the top of the bumper

If you mounted to to the bumper you could class it as a fog light and drive round all the time within on

I'm looking forward to having to 'remind' sombody that they have high beam on (or perhaps their fogs in the middle of the summer!)

25th Dec 2011 11:30am

bpman

Member Since: 21 May 2008
Location: Oslo
Posts: 8069

SteveS wrote:
BigRuss wrote:
SteveS wrote:
bpman wrote:
Steve

Are you going to go for a mat black wrap over the bonnet or do you not get a reflection ?

I forgot to add to my post that I do not get a reflection. I asked D44 to set the bar just far enough back that the front lip of cab roof shadows the bonnet bulge to a degree - and the thing is mounted on slides with +/- 2" of travel so I could set them farther back if i needed to

There is some stray light of course on the bonnet and my passenger asked if the illuminated snorkel head bothered me - but I can't see that from the driver's seat.

No plans to buy a matt black covering - that was my fall-back if the original plans did not go well......or to mount the bar directly onto the top of the bumper

If you mounted to to the bumper you could class it as a fog light and drive round all the time within on

I'm looking forward to having to 'remind' sombody that they have high beam on (or perhaps their fogs in the middle of the summer!)

if you put some colour over the lamps you could make your own "Northern Lights"

25th Dec 2011 11:37am

SteveS

Member Since: 05 Oct 2010
Location: Devon & Berkshire
Posts: 388

bpman wrote:
SteveS wrote:
BigRuss wrote:
SteveS wrote:
bpman wrote:
Steve

Are you going to go for a mat black wrap over the bonnet or do you not get a reflection ?

I forgot to add to my post that I do not get a reflection. I asked D44 to set the bar just far enough back that the front lip of cab roof shadows the bonnet bulge to a degree - and the thing is mounted on slides with +/- 2" of travel so I could set them farther back if i needed to

There is some stray light of course on the bonnet and my passenger asked if the illuminated snorkel head bothered me - but I can't see that from the driver's seat.

No plans to buy a matt black covering - that was my fall-back if the original plans did not go well......or to mount the bar directly onto the top of the bumper

If you mounted to to the bumper you could class it as a fog light and drive round all the time within on

I'm looking forward to having to 'remind' sombody that they have high beam on (or perhaps their fogs in the middle of the summer!)

if you put some colour over the lamps you could make your own "Northern Lights"

Yep - looking forward to trying them in the snowy wastes of Lapland and Nordkapp - suspect that I would get serious 'white-out' if I use them in a snow storm

25th Dec 2011 11:47am

bpman

Member Since: 21 May 2008
Location: Oslo
Posts: 8069

i'll bet !

the video is very impressive.

25th Dec 2011 11:51am

SteveS

Member Since: 05 Oct 2010
Location: Devon & Berkshire
Posts: 388

LED light bar - improved video

If anyone is interested then as promised in the earlier post I have posted a slightly better video here. It is constant aperture and is colour balanced to 'sun/daylight' so should be a more faithful reproduction

29th Dec 2011 7:00pm

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