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2nd gen tyger bull bar lights

Discussion in 'Lighting' started by axeman26, Sep 7, 2018.

  1. Sep 7, 2018 at 9:44 PM
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    axeman26

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    Hi everyone,

    Wondering if anyone can recommend any LED light bars for my tyger bull bar newly installed? I am looking for the most bang for my buck and don’t know which option is best suited for me? Looking for the best quality ground lighting to mount on to my bull bar for the camping/wilderness driving? Thanks in advance

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  2. Sep 8, 2018 at 3:51 PM
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    Anyone? No interest I guess.
     
  3. Sep 9, 2018 at 2:35 AM
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    It depends on a bunch of things. First off, what were you thinking of spending on your lights? Best quality LED lighting, I'd say Baja Designs followed very closely by Rigid. But, you will pay a serious amount of $ for those lights. Other than those, most of the LED bars and cubes etc are made in china, and sold by resellers here with their name printed on them on ebay etc. Nothing wrong with those, just gotta know what you're getting. I'd wager some of the vendors on the site could give you better pricing, and customer service should the lights fail. That said, the BD and Rigid reps have sales and discounts too, and might be able to help you if you contact them.

    Do you have some measurements of the areas on the bars where you could/want to mount a bar or cubes? That would also help. Given your stated usage, I'd guess that more flood oriented lights would work well for your application.

    Personally, I like the idea of several LED cube lights mounted instead of a bar. Simply because the bar aims forward, and only forward. Multiple cubes can be forward if you want, or angled out to the side, or however it works best for what you're doing.
     
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    A measurement of the top and bottom horizontal bar would be the most helpful as that's where I'd want to mount them.
     
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  5. Sep 9, 2018 at 8:23 AM
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    Awesome. Thanks for the great info. Being that there are so many options I didn’t want to buy a known bad brand. Of course I’d like to spend less money if possible however I will gladly pay more for better quality.
     
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    Also keep in mind if you do buy the expensive LEDs, and have them mounted out exposed on that bull bar, they do become a target for crappy people to steal them/or damage them. I have Baja Designs lights, but tucked away behind the grill so they're harder to spot or mess with. I guess it depends on what type of area you live in, that's kinda up to you.
     
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  7. Sep 9, 2018 at 7:39 PM
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    Good idea. Didn’t think about that. I’ll have to take that into consideration.
     
  8. Sep 9, 2018 at 8:21 PM
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    How wide is the horizontal mounting space on the middle bar and top bar?
     

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