Whats The Best Off Road Light?
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Whats The Best Off Road Light?
Im Lookin To Get Some New Lights. Was Wonderin What You Guys Are Runnin And How You Like Them.
Im Lookin At The Hella 500's At The Moment. Anyone Runnin These?
Im Lookin At The Hella 500's At The Moment. Anyone Runnin These?
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I have 4 of them on my roof rack and 2 KC Daylighters on my bumper. The hellas are great and they are not too much of a amperage draw but the KCs suck electricity like crazy. They both have terriffic lighting.
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I agree if you run in the woods much, but we have no woods here so my Hellas are fine up there but I would consider a guard if they were in danger of tree branches. Don't think the KCs are in harms way where they are.
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autozone and pep-boys sells these one lights i cant think of the name but they look just like PIAA lights. there only $30 and they are really bright and they look really good. i love them
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I want to wire them up to my brights so i can just turn them on when i turn my brights on, but i have NO IDEA how i would do that without frying some sort of wiring.
Only downside to my system is that they look a little goofy b/c of hte angles. but I highly suggest it, otherwise youre just a poser with lights on your car that dont do anything...
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I run the Blazers from Autozone. They are bright, don't draw to much power and only $30 per pair. At that price, I don't feel to bad scraping them off with a tree or two. Here is a pic with the covers on. The 2 outside ones on top are at 30 deg, and the 2 inside ones on top are at 15 deg all at about 30 feet out.
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dabeast--run a relay from the high beam side of your headlight that gets the coil powered only while the highs are on.
Use that relay to power the ones you want to be on only when the highs are on.
Research the relays at NAPA and use the 40 amp ones they will hold your extra lighting pretty well.
Use that relay to power the ones you want to be on only when the highs are on.
Research the relays at NAPA and use the 40 amp ones they will hold your extra lighting pretty well.
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dabeast--run a relay from the high beam side of your headlight that gets the coil powered only while the highs are on.
Use that relay to power the ones you want to be on only when the highs are on.
Research the relays at NAPA and use the 40 amp ones they will hold your extra lighting pretty well.
Use that relay to power the ones you want to be on only when the highs are on.
Research the relays at NAPA and use the 40 amp ones they will hold your extra lighting pretty well.
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You can throw some inline fuses and a toggle switch so they won't come on everytime your high beams do. Look at the write up that Go Jeep did on a headlight upgrade. You are using that same principal to trigger your Hellas.
http://www.go.jeep-xj.info/HowtoHeadlightLoom.htm
You may want to bookmark his site. He is in Australia but has some super ideas.
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http://www.go.jeep-xj.info/HowtoHeadlightLoom.htm
You may want to bookmark his site. He is in Australia but has some super ideas.
Blue
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You can throw some inline fuses and a toggle switch so they won't come on everytime your high beams do. Look at the write up that Go Jeep did on a headlight upgrade. You are using that same principal to trigger your Hellas.
http://www.go.jeep-xj.info/HowtoHeadlightLoom.htm
You may want to bookmark his site. He is in Australia but has some super ideas.
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http://www.go.jeep-xj.info/HowtoHeadlightLoom.htm
You may want to bookmark his site. He is in Australia but has some super ideas.
Blue
Oh nice i appreciate it, Ill see wat i can do. I have a toggle switch running them right now that has a cover and everything looks like a missle arm/launch switch haha. but yea i plan to completely cut out the switch portion of hte lights, i want them to be on only when the brights are on, guess i just like simplicity in some respects, maybe turn that switch into something else havent decided what yet...