Simple hoop with triple HID's for less than $400
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Looks really nice. I had looked at those same lights for my shrockworks bumper tabs, but they were too large, and the bolts too long to work in my application... Again, looks really good, nice work!
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It can be a little hard to do a comparison like this, since color temp and brightness can interfere with each other when just eyeballing it. These definitely seem cooler (bluer) than most halogens I've seen.
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Oh yeah I forgot to mention the bolts on the lights are long as hell -- I had to cut probably an inch off each one, then I pained the remaining length of bolt and the nut black so they wouldn't stand out so much.
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Do the instructions tell you how to wire them up? I saw you used a 30a relay... Do you have pics of how you mounted and wired it up? I am really intrigued by these lights.
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Personally I would always use a relay for something like this -- it seems a little safer and lets you use shorter runs of heavier gauge wire. There are plenty of diagrams out there for how to wire relays (google "relay wiring"). They have four or sometimes five pins, all of them are cryptically but consistently numbered "30, 85, 86, and 87" so you can just follow the numbers on the widely available diagrams.
The lights should be wired in parallel from the high-current side of the relay, and remember to put a fuse in between the battery and the relay itself.
Hope that's marginally helpful -- it's really not too bad if you think it through first.
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Definite props on the lights. And I really like your bumper too. Im guessing its home made considering I haven't seen anything like it, but it looks professionally done for sure. Great work.