Led Light Bar Recommendations

[Olepainless]

Hey guys. I have a guy I pass every morning at 6:30 am on the back country roads I take to work.
Typical ********* who will not turn down his bright lights regardless of being flashed or not.
It's a sports car so my assumption is this either an idiot that for the past 6 months still hasn't figured out what flashing lights mean, or an idiot that is just inconsiderate of others.

Ok, to the point. -

I am not looking for anything super high tech or expensive but I don't want junk either, so what would you recommend for a decent light bar for my ranch hand. Need something absolutely blinding that is not going to fall apart in a week. Would also like suggestions on Led fog lights if you guys have any.

I don't want Black and Decker, but I also don't need Festool - if you see what I mean.

Thanks

 

[Nick@GotExhaust]

What size light bar can you fit on there? Also what size fogs would you need for that particular bumper? got any pics you can share?

we can set you up. We offer Baja designs, rigid, vision x, KC, and a bunch of other brands

 

[sbarron]

80+K Lumens is usually a good teacher....View media item 25139

 

[Nick@GotExhaust]

I usually win the who has brighter lights fight when someone leaves their brights on

 

[Olepainless]

So here are a couple of pics with what I am mounting to. I run a custom fab shop with a full metal shop so I can make custom brackets or modifications to the bumper pretty easily.

The 2 vertical supports on the Ranch Hand are maybe 38-40" inside to inside. So, a 36" led bar would be perfect. As far as the fog lights, the opening is decent size to accommodate the factory lights. I can mill or make a smaller bezel if I need to customize something for a LED light with a different shape than the opening.

Nick@gotexhaust - That may a tad much for what I am looking. A couple of LED fog lights and a 36"ish light bar That are decent quality and don't cost $1,000 ea I think will do.

Do you have any setup that would be bright enough to clearly make my point, but maybe not to the extreme of your "Welding with no helmet" brightness?

 

[ThunderMug95]

Welding with no helmet...love it

 

[ThunderMug95]

Your screen name...makes me chuckle as well.

 

[Olepainless]

Your screen name...makes me chuckle as well.

You remember the gun Jesse Ventura had on the Predator - https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/9d68ab6f-e0ae-4df3-b283-0fb9eb433448


I've literally used that screen name since maybe 2000. I have only had 1 person recognize it from the movie.

(didn't like "Old" painless so made a small modify that sounds better)

 

[TatertotScott]

I usually win the who has brighter lights fight when someone leaves their brights on

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Holy mother of GOD, that is awesome!

Just a total "**** you *********" for those asshats running too much poorly aimed light on the road.....

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[WTM75]

I have been looking at the Rough Country LED bars, they seem to be a good combination of cost & quality. I have never owned a light bar, so this is just based on searching the different forums and reading reviews.

 

[Olepainless]

Anyone heard of these guys? Any good?

 

[Olepainless]

80+K Lumens is usually a good teacher....View media item 25139

I can't find anything with 80k

 

[ThunderMug95]

@Olepainless Well mark me #2 then. Oh no wait, that sounds bad...I’m a movie buff and I laughed as soon as I saw the screen name. Thats great!

 

[ThunderMug95]

With that yak killer on the the nose of your truck, you could mount just about anything, so many possible mount points.

 

[POINTMAN380]

I've had the ROUGH COUNTRY black series for a few months. Mine has the Amber DRLs and the white LED is around 18,000 lumens if I remember correctly.

INSTANT SUNSHINE at night. It will definitely do the trick. Couldn't be more impressed with the quality

 

[canadiankodiak700]

I can't find anything with 80k

you won't , that is total bs
the average 52" bar pus out 30000 to 50000 lumens

 

[Jessica Smith]

you won't , that is total bs
the average 52" bar pus out 30000 to 50000 lumens

I believe the numbers are derived from advertising the theoretical maximum based on the type and quantity of LEDs, not any attempt to measure it. They usually call it "raw lumens".

Far more important to you if you want pure blinding forward penetrating power is to choose a spotlight bar over floodlight optics, for obvious reasons. I have a little cree handheld for example that on full flood isn't bad, but you can narrow it down to basically the shape of the diodes and it'll go for miles and if you look straight at that, woah!

 

[WY-Dave]

I have the RC 20" x5 https://www.roughcountry.com/20-inch-x5-led-light-bar-76920.html and the brackets https://www.roughcountry.com/dodge-...0568.html?find=2018-dodge-ram-2500-4wd-156718

I can light up the road markers over a mile. Has a great center "flame thrower" and not too shabby side illumination. I travel 20 miles on a country highway with deer, antelope, fox. skunk etc and it has already saved my front end a couple of times. 10800 lumens and haven't lost a battle of the lights yet.

The X5 lights have an additional LED in the middle of the square of LEDs. (I have never seen the yellow as in this pic) One thing though is that the housing is a lil bigger than the standard and I had to take the mounting holes back about 1/2" so it would sit flush with the bumper


With the 20" vs their 40", I have not seen any cooling issues
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[lobsterbake]

Black Oak Led out of Florida makes exceptional LED light bars. I have the double row 20” linked below for my Ram 2500 and it puts out 22000 lumens and is an IP69K rated light with a lifetime warranty.

https://www.blackoakled.com/products/10-18-ram-2500-3500-20-double-row-bumper-mount-kit

 

[OEDRO]

18 inch- 54inch led light bar, you can check out here:
https://www.yitamotor.com/search?type=product&q=led+light+bar


eg.54 Inch led light bar: $44.99 (Lifespan: Above 50,000 hours, 3 years warranty)