Josh
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I'm in the design phase of adding additional offroad lights onto my truck. When its all done and said, I'll have approx. 1400W worth of lights. Right know I'm trying to design a lightbar that doesnt involve any mutilation to my hard top and that can be removed reletivly quickly for shows and things. Also I'm planing a lightbar to go up and over my winch, I was thinking of just using one of the bolts that hold the bumper extension on, but havent though about that one much. I also plan on mounting a floodlamp in the front underside corner of the bed, pointed at about 45deg from the center line of the truck to give me some perifial light.
I know this amount of lighting is overkill, but most of the time I go offroading is at night(aprox 90%) and I normally lead. I prefer to see where I'm going and the stock deuce lights arnt the best for offroading at night.
I also plan on upgrading the headlights to the trucklight LEDs in the future, but for right now the cheap HF housing with good lightbulbs in them are going to work for me.
Ive seem the same housing used on sro's truck, and they are pretty bright. But I'm trying to put light off at an angle rather then just in front of my truck.
If any of have built simular lightbars or have an idea on how to do with out having to modifiy my hardtop please feel free to share.
I'm also aware that I will need a larger alternator to power these all at the same time. NK in chat the othernight let me know it would take aprox 68amps to do this, and I have the 60amp alt on my truck. I plan on upgrading to a 120-150amp alternator also.
I know this amount of lighting is overkill, but most of the time I go offroading is at night(aprox 90%) and I normally lead. I prefer to see where I'm going and the stock deuce lights arnt the best for offroading at night.
I also plan on upgrading the headlights to the trucklight LEDs in the future, but for right now the cheap HF housing with good lightbulbs in them are going to work for me.
Ive seem the same housing used on sro's truck, and they are pretty bright. But I'm trying to put light off at an angle rather then just in front of my truck.
If any of have built simular lightbars or have an idea on how to do with out having to modifiy my hardtop please feel free to share.
I'm also aware that I will need a larger alternator to power these all at the same time. NK in chat the othernight let me know it would take aprox 68amps to do this, and I have the 60amp alt on my truck. I plan on upgrading to a 120-150amp alternator also.