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Behind grill light suggestions

Discussion in 'Lighting' started by steelers4582, Nov 26, 2012.

  1. Nov 26, 2012 at 5:55 PM
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    steelers4582

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    Looking to put 2 lights behind my Grillcraft. Just ordered a BAMF light bar. Any suggestions for lights?
     
  2. Nov 27, 2012 at 12:12 PM
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    Anyone? Hella? PIAA?..
     
  3. Nov 27, 2012 at 12:16 PM
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    Too many to list now.
    Hellas are good, a light bar is better :)
    Light force 170's will fit if you don't have a satoshi I believe. Lots of options. I wouldn't go Piaa though. Just personal preference.
     
  4. Nov 27, 2012 at 12:23 PM
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    do hellas, you can convert them to hid really cheap and due to their relatively small housings they offer the most mounting configurations.
     
  5. Nov 27, 2012 at 12:29 PM
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    I was wondering if I could fit my 170's behind the grill if I did a grillecraft style grill. Anyone no for sure? I thought I read about someone doing it...
     
  7. Nov 27, 2012 at 12:38 PM
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    Pix?

    It's not that I don't believe you. But it would be a cool photo demonstration.

    Bascially, I wouldn't be too surprised to find out that candlepower/dollars is roughly a constant across brands.
     
  11. Nov 28, 2012 at 3:37 AM
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    It's cool.
    And sorry to thread jack OP.

    But we have a trip planned for the end of December, I'll update with pics if I remember.
     
  12. Nov 28, 2012 at 7:53 AM
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    IPF 900 XS lights behind Black Diamond Fab grill.

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  13. Nov 28, 2012 at 8:06 AM
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    What grill is that? Looks nice!

    EDIT. Crap. I can't read. It says right there in the quote. "Black Diamond Fab Grill." DOH! :homer:
     
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    I think mine is an older grillcraft IIRC, i mounted it flush with the opening, not inserted into the openings like you can do with the satoshis, the reason i did this is so that i don't have to fill the openings left from where i cut the old grill out. This left me a lot of room for lights.

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    Notice all the lights are mounted forward on the slots of the lightbar, the middle two are some off brand i can't recall, the outer two are older KC Daylighters which are as deep as lightforce 170's, the KC's are deeper than any of the hellas that would fit in your application IIRC I'll see if i can find a pic around here someone posted of four lightforce 170's

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