Show me your light bars- Fitting to roo bar (Australia)

[Tom D]

What appeals about the laser is the oval beam pattern, wider than it is top to bottom. Many light bars give the same effect because they are a bar - wider than it is high, but they still use cone reflectors so you get an extra bright spot a few meters in front of the car. I find this ‘over exposes’ your vision and you lose some distance vision as a result.. I have had bright light bars in the past but I think the beam pattern is as important as the total lumens.

You can get crazy bright cheap Chinese light bars, but I’m not sure that the extra lumens are worth it if it is too bright just in front of you.
And if the light is hitting your bonnet or bull bar the effect is even worse.

 

[Levi]

Edit: I agree with you absolutely re. the benefits of a light bar as regards mid distance and illumination of the verge (especially in my case as my night vision decreases with age.)
In regards to high and low beam coverage,
have you experimented as yet with the headlight beam level adjustment via the roof console switch? The cutoff level in the photo of low beam seemed to me it (and high beam) might be able to be tweaked with the switch to get a bit more range...

Hi mate, yes have adjusted those up and down, generally running in up position. The photos are with an Iphone, which does a bloody good job of self-adjusting and showing a bit different to reality.

 

[globalgregors]

We landed on the 14” Stedi ST4K, for us the objective was fill light (for surface conditions) and road shoulders (beasties and bandits) at close-medium range and it does a great job.

In all honesty, mostly using at the moment to complain about sketchy head-on overtakes.