Added another light bar

I moved out of state to a more Rural area in April, from NJ to CT. My commute went from 15min to 1hr 30min and 95% of that is on highways like 2 lane in the woods with no road lighting lol. I’ve been using my rigid SRQ pros in the tow hook openings and they have been working great. They have a spot beam pattern and throw lots of light. I’m looking for more light but the combo beams don’t do me much good as I’m driving 65-80mph in in curvy roads. I would be driving right through the flood beam areas and never see anything. So looks like a curved spot beam only bar... not as many manufactures as I would have hoped. Rigid didn’t have much that was in my price range and I have eBay and Amazon bars in the garage. I wanted a curved black out bar with a spot beam in a single row. So I found rough country and have been waiting for sales... originally I wanted the 52” black series curved but it was $279 and I thought it would be too big. I thought the 31” would be too small but I was measuring around the truck looking for spots and saw a 31” pop up on rough Country’s scratch and dent store on eBay. $100 out the door for a basically new bar and I earned $13 in eBay bucks. Got the bar and it had no scratches or anything, looks perfect and it’s bright as balls. It has a 30 degree spot beam which is fine but I would have liked a 20-15* possible pencil beam if possible.

I was worried about output and they said it pulled 12.5amps which is a lot compared to the 42” eBay bar I have (single row straight) and it pulled like 6-7amps. Plugged the bar in and put my nifty little amp meter on it and sure enough it pulles 11.5-12.5 amps and 141-150w. The bar also gets warm pretty quickly so is sucking up juice!

Today I mounted it under the bumper (did this on my last ram express and it worked great) and had to pull out all the wiring as I wanted to upgrade the harness. I pulled the eBay harness (single 40amp) and modified a new Morimoto HID harness I have laying around (dual 40amp waterproof relays). So I have 1 relay powering the 31” rough country and one relay powering the rigid SRQ pros. Waiting on a 6 lot fuse block with grounds from Amazon tmrw to finish up the wiring. I’m going to consolidate my other 2 Morimoto relay harnesses that power my low beam and fog HIDs, plus I have my sub feed wire.

Anyways here are some shots. It’s def bright, don’t think it has the distance as the rigids but it adds a big of filling which is what I wanted.




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31” rough country

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Rigid SRQ pros only

Here is a shot of the amp readings. Amps is too left, voltage top right, max watt power is bottom left and current wattage is bottom right.

I take it you have few to no hills? Otherwise such low mounted light bar will be next to worthless.

Don't get me wrong, I like it. But so close to the ground is going to be difgicult see very far in hills.



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I went rabbit hunting and got on a tiny rut.....broke the front bumper cover and bent the fogs.

Ram tough eh?

TatertotScott said:

I take it you have few to no hills? Otherwise such low mounted light bar will be next to worthless.

Don't get me wrong, I like it. But so close to the ground is going to be difgicult see very far in hills.



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Hills yes, bar is angled up slightly. I agree that mounting the bar low it looses its effectiveness but I can’t mount it up higher without drilling into the bumper cover and I don’t own the truck yet (still leased) so I don’t want to do anything noticeable or non reversible.

They truck also doesn’t go off-road and my last bar mounted in the same position on my express was fine even in snow.

Looks great, that’s the same light bar I have, mine still works like new, no complaints

TatertotScott said:

I take it you have few to no hills? Otherwise such low mounted light bar will be next to worthless.

Don't get me wrong, I like it. But so close to the ground is going to be difgicult see very far in hills.



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Not to mention in the snow it’s just gonna build up ice and be worthless

IRSmart said:

Not to mention in the snow it’s just gonna build up ice and be worthless

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Lol like i said in my post where I quoted his text... I ran a single row 42" straight bar on my 14 express in the same location and I had no issues in NJ winters for the 2 years it was on. I had more snow buildup on the bar that was in the express sport bumper opening than under it. Also this bar gets pretty warm quickly so I would hope it would melt better than the ebay bar that I had on my last truck.

Here was my old truck and setup, no issues with snow besides the normal parked buildup.

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blackbetty14 said:

Here is a shot of the amp readings. Amps is too left, voltage top right, max watt power is bottom left and current wattage is bottom right.

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I'd call that a good start!

Digging those Rigids! Thanks for sharing.


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That look good! I’ve been looking at the same light, does rough Country have an actual scratch & dent store or do you just watch the auctions? I’m not very good on eBay. Lol

WTM75 said:

That look good! I’ve been looking at the same light, does rough Country have an actual scratch & dent store or do you just watch the auctions? I’m not very good on eBay. Lol

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They have an actual scratch and sent store. No bidding, all buy it now. Basically 50% off for 100% working but small blemish. I couldn’t find a blemish on mine at all tho.

blackbetty14 said:

They have an actual scratch and sent store. No bidding, all buy it now. Basically 50% off for 100% working but small blemish. I couldn’t find a blemish on mine at all tho.

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Do you have a link? Is it an EBay store?

WTM75 said:

Do you have a link? Is it an EBay store?

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Shot you a PM. I don’t think we’re suppose to post links that aren’t from our sponsors.

blackbetty14 said:

Shot you a PM. I don’t think we’re suppose to post links that aren’t from our sponsors.

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if possible could you send it to me also? plz and thank you

cityredneck said:

if possible could you send it to me also? plz and thank you

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Sent!