Originally Posted by Basslicks

The light bar in the link YOU posted comes with the switch. The light bar in the link I posted does not... but they have links to the correct switch on the website as well as the wiring harness.

Originally Posted by Bigdp55

Ya I know i was wondering if i could get a smaller switch.

Originally Posted by Basslicks

Ah ok. Yeah you can get switches in all shapes sizes and functions!

Originally Posted by Bigdp55

Well that's good I'm new to the whole offroad scene. I've never installed switches before.

Originally Posted by extrashaky

I was kind of thinking if I ever install a light bar, it might just get an old school foot switch.



Somebody probably makes a three-way foot switch that rotates through multiple functions.

Originally Posted by Martlor13

hmmm, seems inconvenient to me haha...I would either mount it somwhere where I always hit it and turn it on, or somewhere where I could never find it and have to look under to see where it's at haha!

Originally Posted by extrashaky

I used to shoot television news for a living, so I can often spot when the gain has been turned way up. So I can tell you from experience, the gain has been turned way up in that second photo. You can see it in the digital noise in the picture, and you can also tell from the reduced contrast.

What that comparison tells me is that the amber light is much, much darker than the white light. Either the auto exposure in the camera they used automatically raised the gain to make the exposure the same in the foreground, or they manually manipulated the second image to make it appear as bright as the first.

Either way, the additional detail visible in the shadow areas of the second photo is because the amber lights are darker, not brighter. All that same detail would be there to your naked eye with either light. The white ones are so much brighter that the contrast in that top scene is higher than the camera or our displays can handle.

TL;DR: Those pics are a trick of photography. The lamps demonstrated in the top pic are actually brighter.