My order got cancelled. Apparently I got in too late. Oh well.

Will do! Amazon says it'll be here on Friday so at a minimum I should be able to mock it up in the hood off of the truck and snap a few pictures.

I'm hopeful that the bracket/light work as I imagine, I know C4 Fab makes this bracket specifically for the Rigid SR 10" light but I'd assume any other single row 10" light is going to be within a close enough size to "make it work" even if I have to impart a little creativity.

Weather this weekend is going to be crap again here in Ohio so it'll be at least 2 more weeks before the 32" curved bar gets installed. That'll give me time to pick up some more switches and parts to complete a quality install.

Here are some photos of mine installed.

-Rob

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Looks good in there.

Agreed! Got any up-close pictures of what you did with the brackets?

Fired mine up in the backyard last night just to see how it looks.



(tipped it up a little bit to hit the trees further)



and for what it's worth, here's a picture of the yard with no lights on and with an over 10x slower shutter speed. (The picture at the same settings as the lit up picture just looked black)



It has a nice amount of flood light near by and the spot seems to have a good amount of light. Overall, I'm pretty impressed and happy with the $11 I spent, I just want to get another switch to put in the cabin since the stick on one is cheap.

Got mine installed this past weekend with the CaliRaisedLED Brackets! I also put some smoked film on the light bar itself so that it wouldn't stick out behind the grille too much! I love the stealthy look! The install was pretty easy and I think I'll have to line it up with a wall to make some aiming adjustments and move the light bar down a little bit so it's centered with the grille opening rather than behind a few slats of the grille.

The other thing I did was go over all of the allen bolts on the front of the light, each one took about 1/8 to 1/4 of an additional turn without feeling like I was over torquing them. Hopefully this helps to keep them sealed long term.





And with it turned off!



Light Bars only (rainy, including my 10" hood scoop bar)



Light Bars and stock headlights with the 9005 bulb mod.

I have bough some pretty low budget lights in the past… and for me most of those options didn’t fare well as driving lights, but they do work well for other things.

Just to give an idea of what I experienced… most of them really just had way too much flood and made the terrain close to the car too bright, essentially washing out any light that was going further down. The reflectors / lens assembly was either nonexistent or very poor in controlling the light and where it really needed to be.

That said, still better than not having it at all, and the pictures posted above do look better than some of the other junk I bought. At the price seems pretty good.

I still haven’t started buying high dollar brand name stuff, but I did find some generic eBay stuff that wasn’t particularly cheap, but it sure was better in performance.

Good 2 cents. I haven't actually driven with it on, for a few reasons, 1. I don't do much of my driving at night, and 2. I'm not trying to be "that guy" with the light bar on on any road where there is oncoming traffic.

I did notice that there was a lot more light scattered up close rather than thrown at a longer distance. For this reason I'm considering doing ditch light mounted spots of some kind to help out with the true long range light output when it's necessary.

+1 for cool points and as I mentioned before "the best light bar is the one you have", it's certainly better than no light bar!

I would never use this stuff in street driving… All my use with a light bar has been off-road, primarily in desert conditions. It can get pretty dusty if there are good winds, or if you are following someone.

The amount of glare in some of those conditions is almost unbearable, especially if its mounted on the roof. Bumper mounted has been the absolute best for me in terms of viewing comfort and performance.

I can absolutely attest to the “less is more” argument. The color temperature surprisingly plays a big role in this too… I much prefer a yellow fog color over a bright white, at least to my eyes, it helps a lot with contrast.

I would still love to own a nice Baja Designs bar, really curious what it would be like to drive with something like that, but I really don’t use it enough to blow a lot of coin on this stuff.

Well, not a whole lot of Desert here in Ohio! I had no intent to buy/install a light bar at all, but for the price I went for it.

I too would prefer yellow (which is what I was thinking for the "ditch light" spots). I may try some yellow film on this light bar to achieve that look and see if it might be easier on the eyes because the crisp LED cool white isn't a very friendly color to the eyes.

I agree on the crisp cool white… try it in the rain or snow and come talk to me about it haha.

I have used photography grade filter/gels in the past on my flashlights… I don’t see why it would not work on a lightbar if you can find a decent way to install it.

Check out this link… affordable sample Swatch.

Rosco Roscolux Swatchbook 950SBLUX0103 B&H Photo Video

I still have a few, I can try and find the closest correct yellow and let you know which one it is.

On this one I just bought film from Amazon and laid it down on the lens to block the light. It looks good but we'll see how it holds up over time. Again though, from a cost standpoint, I'm not trying to invest more than the cost of the whole setup in a film to change the light color, haha.

Jumping in on the conversation here a bit late but have you thought about plexiglass?

Cut-to-Size Transparent Color Acrylic Sheets in Stock at ePlastics

Not suggesting this in particular as the cost could be prohibitive but something like this and just add this in front of the light bar if the light bar is in the bumper and hidden.

I’m saving that link for myself haha… I didn’t know about that company, seems very useful for other projects that I might have later on.

That’s a cool idea… colored plexi might work. The main thing about changing the color of the light is the color temperature and the spectrum of light because not all yellow is the right yellow. I’m sure it would all help, but there is a more advanced conversation behind color temp. Either way, I would try it if it didn't cost too much.

Does anyone know what baja designs is using? I know going from white to yellow isn’t a LED emitter change, it’s a lens chance. Not sure if that lenses is glass or plastic, but I would be curious to get one and measure it with this.