So you need brighter headlights!
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lookforjoe
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Is that you, Carl? Looks like clickbait 
dragonsgate
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That light bar wouldn't last five minutes in the woods.
The head lights on my X are pretty bright but they are mounted low so that diminishes the efficiency.
On the rear occasions I drive at night I toy with idea of how to mount a couple of LED spots above the windshield with out it looking weird.
I guess I could go full rally and hang head lights everywhere.
Just jacking up the car height would make difference.
In the 70's and 80's I had a couple aircraft landing lights on the front of my Land Cruiser.
They were really bright but ate up the amps.
I had them mounted above the front bumper so they were not much higher than my X19 headlights are now.
One hundred thousand candle power each I ran them uncovered all the time and the only time I ever had a cop say anything about it was when I was sitting on the side of I-10 about a hundred miles from anywhere with a blown engine.
One night I was coming across the desert on I-40 talking to the truckers trying to stay awake when one trucker asked my 20.
I was just coming down the grade before Newberry Springs and could see the running lights of an eighteen wheeler several miles ahead and below me so I turned on the landing lights.
Being on high ground those lights lit up the valley and I heard one trucker say "Dam that looks like a 747 coming in for a landing."
When I told him he was close and what they were it started a conversation that kept us all awake past Barstow and into Victorville.
The head lights on my X are pretty bright but they are mounted low so that diminishes the efficiency.
On the rear occasions I drive at night I toy with idea of how to mount a couple of LED spots above the windshield with out it looking weird.
I guess I could go full rally and hang head lights everywhere.
Just jacking up the car height would make difference.
In the 70's and 80's I had a couple aircraft landing lights on the front of my Land Cruiser.
They were really bright but ate up the amps.
I had them mounted above the front bumper so they were not much higher than my X19 headlights are now.
One hundred thousand candle power each I ran them uncovered all the time and the only time I ever had a cop say anything about it was when I was sitting on the side of I-10 about a hundred miles from anywhere with a blown engine.
One night I was coming across the desert on I-40 talking to the truckers trying to stay awake when one trucker asked my 20.
I was just coming down the grade before Newberry Springs and could see the running lights of an eighteen wheeler several miles ahead and below me so I turned on the landing lights.
Being on high ground those lights lit up the valley and I heard one trucker say "Dam that looks like a 747 coming in for a landing."
When I told him he was close and what they were it started a conversation that kept us all awake past Barstow and into Victorville.
MikeHynes
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World's brightest truck? OK. Now, if you wanted that coveted title you could duplicate the same set-up then tape a flashlight to the hood and steal that title away? IF, you wanted that title.
That truck reminds me of the military MRAP vehicles used in theater. I don't think they have as many LED lights pointing forward, but I think they have about as many lights total. Kinda hard NOT to see them coming.
That truck reminds me of the military MRAP vehicles used in theater. I don't think they have as many LED lights pointing forward, but I think they have about as many lights total. Kinda hard NOT to see them coming.
Hybridfiat
Power costs money, more power cost more money
Just bought a Stratus LED module to put on my Moto Guzzi Le Mans.