LED or HID for Windshield Lights?
03-27-2013, 11:50 AM
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Knight, I can say with some certainty that I love my lights for every situation, and they don't break the bank. My setup cost less than half of what a set of 520s cost here.
03-27-2013, 11:55 AM
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i wouldnt wast your money unless you are doing it to say u spend hundreds on lights. if you go wheeling you will have branchs and trees hitting them, and if you break them u loss. i would stick with H4 bulbs and simple hella slim lite. about 120 bucks or u can buy the cheap LEDS on ebay and have the look and it may work well. If you dont do night wheeling i wouldnt spend the money.
06-17-2013, 09:05 AM
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Bumping this old thread. I finally got all my lights in, mounted and wired up. I went with a spot/flood combo 20" led bar on the front bumper. And a set of HID's for the A pillars. I love the setup but am having a problem with one of the HID's. I've had them on for a few days now, and last night I was out tweaking the aim a bit. I had the HID's on, switched them off, then back on. The passenger side came on for a second, flickered, and then went out. I haven't been able to get it back on since. This morning I checked the connections, and everything looked good. Both lights are grounded in the same spot, and the driver side still works, so that doesn't seem to be the issue. I unhooked the passenger side light (the one not working) and hooked a wire straight from the light, to the battery. These lights have an internal ballast, so being hooked straight to the battery should have fired the light. This is how I hooked them up when I first got them to test and make sure they work, and they did. So my only guess is that the internal ballast has failed. Any other ideas? I contacted the place I bought them and am waiting to see what they say. Thanks for any help.
10-02-2013, 09:26 PM
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I've found this picture or the 3-shot Lo/Hi/HID shots cross-posted on several forums which is cool usually (Google search by image), but I noticed Kojack here has been posting it as a set of 500's, so I figured I'd set the record straight.
Anyone who's interested in reading a little more about the conversion can see it here: Converting Hella 700FF's to 55W HID
Cheers.
10-03-2013, 01:37 AM
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Hi Jeepers, I just wanted to mention this picture isn't of converted Hella 500's on a Jeep, but in fact Hella 700FF's on a 4Runner (but it should have been obvious, does that look like a JK hood to you?). I know this, because it's my picture; our mutual friend Kojack is misrepresenting it. This picture shows the final install beam pattern of a set of Hella 700FF's I converted to 55W HID using a DDM kit with 5000K bulbs.
I've found this picture or the 3-shot Lo/Hi/HID shots cross-posted on several forums which is cool usually (Google search by image), but I noticed Kojack here has been posting it as a set of 500's, so I figured I'd set the record straight.
Anyone who's interested in reading a little more about the conversion can see it here: Converting Hella 700FF's to 55W HID
Cheers.
10-05-2013, 01:39 AM
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Hey guys. I'm trying to decide what way to go with my lighting upgrades. I'm planning on putting on some windshield lights, and an LED bar on the front bumper. I plan on doing spot/driving lights for the windshield and a flood for the LED bar. My question is what would you guys recommend for the windshield? HIDs or LEDs? As much as I'd like them, I can't afford anything super expensive like Rigids. So whatever I go with will be a less expensive version. Thanks for any input.
Go with the LEDS: they are bright as the sun and will last at least 50,000 hours.
They put out a good light and look great.
10-05-2013, 02:47 AM
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I am going with the same combo as the original poster. Hella driving lights with the HID (55W 4300) and going just a little smaller on a 10" Rigid single row flood on a Poison Spyder hawse fairlead mount.
Hopefully this will give me the distance and flood coverage I am looking for.
Hopefully this will give me the distance and flood coverage I am looking for.
10-05-2013, 09:34 AM
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I'm the OP. I may have already posted this, but I went with 4" HID on the windshield, and a 20" combo LED bar on the bumper. Gives great coverage near and far. I'm super happy with it.
10-22-2013, 05:46 AM
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