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Im really just curious if they will be enough light to see the ground. Kinda like mood lighting for hanging around camp

 

I just took some alligator clips and hooked them too the battery, I think they’ll work good for super low light camping, or even marker lights during a bad storm or dust etc… the camera couldn’t hardly pick it up so I apologize, but it shows they just barely illuminate the ground.

 

Oh nice. Yea that looks about perfect for what i was thinking. Appreciate that.

 

Ditch lights - SS3 Pro
Fogs - SS3 Max
LED Bars - Dual SS30

 

Super stoked with the diode dynamics halos. Small hiccup with install but they took care of me. Great to know they got my back in case anything happens!

 

Following! I'm interested in replacing the stock fog lights with SS3's. Not sure of what beam pattern. Looks most are going with yellow fogs? Would that pattern/colour serve as an all purpose light? Any one running the SAE white fog or driving light in the fog light location?

 

Are you interested in using your fog lights in fog and foul weather? Realistically, fog lamps should not be used as additional light during normal driving conditions. Excessive amounts of light in the foreground can constrict your pupils, decreasing your ability to see objects at a distance. However most lowbean headlamps produce (by design and legal requirement) uplight for overhead non-illuminated signage, which can cause them to be near useless in bad weather. Having a useful/real/effective fog lamp, and the ability to turn off the lowbeam, can allow you to continue traveling slowly and carefully.

The selective yellow color is the result of filtering blue wavelengths of light out of the beam, which increases contrast and reduces eye strain and fatigue. A most excellent write up by an industry expert, Daniel Stern, is available on his website, and goes into great detail about the practical benefits of selective yellow.

http://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/lights/light_color/light_color.html

Fog lamps are allowed to be either white or yellow/selective yellow in the US.

While you *could* mount SS3s with the driving light optic in your oem fog location, you would need to wire them so as not to come on with your lowbeams, for legalities sake. You're also reducing their effective seeing distance, as driving lights/auxiliary high beams/spot lamps generally perform better the higher they are mounted (which, regarding legal limits, is generally only as high as the headlamps on the vehicle).

The fog lamps and driving lamp beam pattern is going to be the same regardless of yellow or white. You can look back through the thread to see examples of the "3000k" selective yellow, 4000k neutral white, if you buy the yellow lamps and swap to the clear optics, and the 6000k white.

 

Great answer, thanks!

I don't get much fog but definitely 3 months of winter. And I do know how useless headlights can be during a snow storm. Good point about the driving lights being less effective closer to the ground. I'll check out the link you provided.

 

Installed what I thought were going to be some "look at me" fog lights (SS3 Pros), but turned out to be extremely functional. Wrote up the process and my take-aways, as usual.

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Great write up in your link. I just want to know where the give away was you won them from.

 

Replaced the OEM fog lights with real fog lights...
Diode Dynamics SS3 Sport.
Love them!!!!

 

Replaced the backup (reverse) light bulbs with Diode Dynamics XPR LED bulbs....
The new DD bulb on the left and OEM bulb on the right. Significant difference even in daylight.
At night... it's like night & day!

https://www.diodedynamics.com/backup-leds-for-2004-2021-toyota-tacoma-pair.html

 

Have a stage series 30" driving white bar on the way. After I get that taken care of I think I'll start looking into yellow fog pods. any recommendations on sport/pro/max? are they worth the extra?

 

Sport have served me well in all types of weather, they have the cleanest cutoff. The other two are brighter, but you lose some of the exactness of the cutoff from the sports. Just depends what’s more important to you.

 

I started with the Pro fogs in selective yellow and now run the Max. As has already been stated, the Pros give up some beam discipline for brightness to the Sport. The Max however gives all that back and more. If you're looking for the best bang for the buck, go Sport. If you want absolute power, go Max. If you want to run them on the street all the time, avoid the Pro.

 

For those of you with the yellow sport fogs, I have them properly aimed. Do yall leave them on when driving by others or turn them off every time someone passes you? Two people have flashed me but I've drive at night alot so it could be a few Karens offering their opinions.

 

I don't have sports in yellow, but I do think that when properly aimed you are not being a dick head. How ever I do notice my self that LED lights do becoming a bit blinding in close proximity for a second though. I run the ss3 sport in a driving lens and the ssc2 pros In a wide fog pattern simultaneously. I've never been flashed or got flak from LEOs. Both in white. I have a pair of ss3s yellow with a combo lens. I typically turn them off with oncoming traffic. I to drive quite a bit at night. I hope this perspective helps.

 

I was about 25 feet away from my garage door and initially they were aimed above the headlights. cranked them down all the way to their most intense point using a light meter. 3/4 the way up the first panel of the door is where that point as when we were done. They aim well below the headlights as a fog light should. Did I do an okay job?

 

Who’s excited for the ss5!???!!