LED Light Bar and where to mount?

Google "led light bar glare", or similar terms, for issues with roof mounting...

I can say for back, county road high speed travel at night, I am pleased with mine mounted lower than the headlights in the bumper. it's only a 17" but that works in my favor, as I used the factory fog light wiring. The 10 Amp draw is well below the rating of both the relay and the fuse protecting the circuit.

Of course I try to turn it off at the first sign of any oncoming traffic which is rare on the above described road.

But t is almost like a portable sun.

I do like the look of a larger light bar mounted to a roof rack, and would like to have one, however, in the real world, 100w of led light on a 17" light bar is quite a lot. You will be amazed. From my own experience I would mount the first one low.

I have a thread here with example pictures

www.explorerforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=389294

From my experience you'll want it somewhere around the grille area. The higher up the light is the less shadows it'll cast, but aiming a roof mounted led bar is a pain because they put light out in ALL directions and usually causes pretty bad glare on the hood.
Here's a video of a 32" LED bar mounted in the lower air dam on my Trac. It does a good job for being mounted so low.

I have done both of these recently to my X. I need to figure out photobucket for the new phone and I'll show ya what I did... maybe it'll help ya make up your mind.

EDIT: Photobuckt staff has confirmed im not losing my mind, but their app is junk. I'll load these from the work computer because its more interesting than IDK...... working




From the top showing hire far back it sits


Top mounted back up lights


Bottom mounted back ups (more flood light than spot light)


and just because, the start of my switches.... these are wired in and working, but I didnt have the last one until yesterdays mail.

I'll get a little video or something showing how it works from down there tonight if I get out of here soon enough.

Thanks everyone!

I bought the smaller one with the plan of putting on the brush guard. Between reading here and talking to a buddy, mounting upfront seems to be the way to go.

I like the lights up high in the back. I want to put mine up like that as well. Thank you for the pics SPSully!

I actually got a video.... hold on and I'll load it up


http://vid223.photobucket.com/albums/dd318/sully2582/03 Explorer/20160214_043444_zpsvwlulwoq.mp4


and a picture of the front lit up at night

My buddy has a LED light bar on his grille guard, and it looks ok and doesn't vibrate according to him.

toypaseo said:

Google "led light bar glare", or similar terms, for issues with roof mounting...

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anyone tried one of these?

http://www.justoffroad.org/home.html

SPSully said:

I actually got a video.... hold on and I'll load it up

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Are you sure your lights are LED and not laser? Shooting down aircraft with a laser is illegal, you know.

Lol