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Mounted my new LED Light bar

Kauai72Bronco

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And it's pretty awesome. 22.5" with 12 x 10w CREE LED's. This one was around $150 off of ebay. Haven't gotten any night performance photos yet, but it is super bright. Mounted it on a roller fairlead light bracket. Seems to be of quality construction and install was a 1 banana job.

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Joker11

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Cool for you.

Can I throw in my opinion?

I love the LEDs, but it's almost like they are step kids. The old school round lights just seem to fit the broncos. Do they make LED lights shaped like the old Dayliters?
 

bteutsch

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I bought some of these for my Boat..
 

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Joker11

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Wait,
I would like to recant my opinion now.
I just saw Rastiss' bronco and he has an LED lightbar too. But his is above the windshield. Since the light bar is rectangular, it looks perfect up on that spot.
But I think down low like the headlights should be round.
It's your bronco and it should be the way YOU see it. Not me.
I have never been accused of having good style. So don't take my opinion as personal or intended to be offensive.
 

bknbronco

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Boy its crazy how far LED tec has came in the last 15 years! Its all about reflector design! Id love to see some of the LED bars in action.

I didn't think LED drew much power but your light say 150 watts? Plus that's a huge set of wires? These new high power LED's must draw more power than I thought?

Im also curious as to the smooth verses dimpled reflector in your lights? Smooth center ones for beam pattern and the dimple floods the sides? COOL STUFF!

JP mag had a LED lighting shootout a few issues back and it was interesting how some of the expensive, big name, lights weren't as bright as some of the cheep ones...again reflector design was the most important factor in getting light downrange.
 

badmuttstang

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bknbronco 150watts is 12.5amps so it is still really low on current draw. Oh and his light is a 120watt which is 10amps. Looks great Kauai72Bronco
 
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broncoitis

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Looks good to me and your chillin in Hawaii! What else is there to say? ;D
 

dave67fd

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Looks good to me and your chillin in Hawaii! What else is there to say? ;D

Ditto.
Although I'm a round light kinda guy as well, I think it looks good. Glad to see the Hawaii Bronco's for sure. Truck is badass as well.

Hope to Hit Kauai after Maui in 2015, always nice to try and visit with the brothers there.
 
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Kauai72Bronco

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I'm happy with it. I'll try to get a good pic of the light output. Center is spot beam and 2 on each side are flood. I agree that they look better up top but I didn't want to drop the coin for the 50 incher...plus I had the fairlead mount lying around. I've seen your bronco around cashbrewing..real nice rig
 

croft75

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I just added one very similar, I can't believe how bright they are, I had 2 PIAA's on a pre runner bumper you could see the top half of them from in the cab. I couldn't stand the light projected back from the guards, so I added the low led bar and lowered the PIAA's its like driving a different truck now.
 

Bukin 67

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As the tech evolves, nearly all lighting that is now fluorescent, incandescent, halogen, HID and tungsten will be LED or something with similar draw soon.. Looks great Kauai
 
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