Light Bar on John Deere?

Hey Hey,

With fall clean up quickly approaching and the sun going down earlier and earlier, I am finding my stock headlights on my John Deere GT245 tractor are absolute crap.

Has anyone mounted an LED bar to their tractor? Any foreseeable problems? would this wiring work the same as a truck?

 

My father in law has a couple Chinese 27 watt led's on his New Holland tractor. We wired them into his running lights, so they don't come on unless the headlights are on. We put them on a few months ago so I don't think he's use them very much, but he hasn't had any issues yet.

 

If your tractor is 12vdc it should work fine.

 

This. As long as it's 12vdc you can wire it up just like your truck.

 

I have one on my lawn mower, you can put them anywhere

 

Now if you can make a light bar work off of this mower.

 

Oh I haven't seen one of those in a long time

 

lol, I used to mow my grandmothers lawn with one of those.

thanks for the help, guys. I think I'm going to go with a pair of pods floods or wide cornering. Dont know which is the best light pattern.

Wonder how long I can run these off the battery with the engine off. any way to calculate this?

 

http://www.caliraisedled.com/product/15w-slim-work-lights
Just for instance i run this on my lawn mower, theres a red and black wire that runs off of it and i wired it right into the battery. If its your tractor battery you are 100% fine. LED takes like no power. It takes about an amp or 2 draw.

 

Quoted for pics because bad ass dude!

 

thanks for the help here. How wide of an angle and how far does one of those throw?

 

Dont know exact throw and length, but you can see the output picture

 

http://www.caliraisedled.com/product/24w-round-work-light
I highly recommend this though for a tractor, this will light up everything, we go to the Farm and Power show every year and this is our main seller for farmers with tractors and there toys they use.

 

Saaweeet!!!

 

I'm doing exactly this on mine. going to build a winch/plow setup for it, and put a light bar on top of the assembly. the headlights allow me to drive home from the neighbors house, but aren't bright enough to actually do any work with.

 

I was hoping you would like it Chad

 

Stacks FTMFW!!!!!!! Sweet little rig dude!

I did, and still do!!!!!!!

 

Thanks Chad! got her over the summer and did a partial restoration. not bad for a 40 year old tractor.

 

Shes a beaut!!!! Probably has another 40+ in her!!!

 

thats awesome. i'm out blowing leaves and snow so late, I can't wait to be able to see!