CREE Vs OSRAM LED Light Bar Comparison 

M Wilson That's good to know, thank you!

+BCNEWSVIDEO Cree is supposed to be good brand for LEDs. I have not tried many but I have one of those flashlights with a Cree LED. It was advertised as 2200 lumens but I am not 100% sure of that claim. It is a bright sone though and I can see the tops of some trees at night if I wanted to. I usually keep it focused to that funky looking square and that thing will shine for a nice distance. It uses a 26650 lithium ion cell. They are safe if rjust stay away from low quality Chinese batteries. If you buy one of these beware of fake Ultrafire batteries, there are too many fake Ultrafire batteries and they are potentially very dangerous especially when more than one is used in a flashlight.

I have used both and the cree looses that brightness after about 100 to 150 hours where as the osram I've have for well over 150 hours and is still as bright as it was the day I opened it......in my opinion osram is way better for long term usage

+J1I9M7M4Y Glad it helped!

+J1I9M7M4Y Thanks for letting me know about this! I reported it to youtube so we'll see what they do about it...

+Igor K I have tried different cameras.. I used a nikon coolpix p530 for this whole video and for most of my other daylight videos but I have found that my wife's samsung galaxy s6 does the best for recording the light from the light bars at night. none of the cameras I've tried do the light bars any justice though.... they all dim down when I press record. is there a setting that will do a better job?

+Igor K Ok, I'll have to try that, thanks!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Lightfox

+Jay Vida Thanks!

eacardoc1 N

That has nothing to do with cree vs osram. That has everything to do with the lenses/optics the manufacture uses. You can have the exact same cree led at 5 degree or 50 degree just changine the lens/reflector. Same goes for osram.

+Mitsubifrevk I would like to if I had one of equal size. The only light bar I have with phillips LEDs is a little 13.5 inch single row spot light and I did make a video of that the other day. Here is a link to that video if it helps, I cant compare it to a 20" double row light bar but the video does show the power of the phillips LEDs.... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rT95p-CzGS8.html

Jake Nabutovsky Yeah that was kind of the point...... I didn't think anybody would want to see me compare 2 identical light bars..... lol

+eacardoc1 lol this guy xD

+Bocephus It is a combination spot/flood beam.

+eacardoc1 so what are you thoughts of the flood pattern on the Osrom? is it sufficient for seeing deer, and other critters, along rural roads when driving at night? or should i go with the cree?

+Bocephus Just my opinion but I prefer the cree for that.... now if you want to spot a deer at 100 yards then I'd go with the osram! The Osram just doesn't have enough flood lighting for me. I actually wanted to see what it would look like with both going down the road, the osram for long distance and the cree for the flood lighting.... then you would have the best of both worlds.... just never got around to trying it.

The Cree lights up the road best but problem is that they would both blind oncoming traffic or even blind the person in front of you with the glare in their mirrors so you can't really use them for you main driving lights. I don't have mine on when I'm driving in traffic, only when there aren't any other vehicles on the road.

+rocker85675 if you drove at night open highway an aftermarket lightbar driving lights make whole big difference saved me few times from hitting kangaroo's and wombats, I have 9inch xgt lightforce driving lights and was looking at the cree and osram,, after this video the cree wins hands down got enough range penetration with the xgt's

Jared Croft The Osram was listed as a 10 degree spot beam and 40 degree flood beam combo.

You got me, I actually use a flashlight in all of my videos!! Finally someone smart enough to figure it out! Congratulations Sir!

+Darshan Chaudhari I actually haven't had the opportunity to test a light with 10 watt Cree LEDs yet.....

I just copy and paste the link from where I bought it but if you look at the date on the video, that was about 8 months ago. I have explained this several times but I don't sell the lights nor do I have any control over the people who do. I can't help it if they change a listing or run out of stock... sorry

tanh van I do wish they would stay consistent with their product line so I wouldn't look like a toolbox when they change stuff like that. lol But that was just a light I bought for my truck and decided to do a review on...

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Cree is on the left and osram on the right. Neither of these light bars are 5D. The cree is regular reflector cup style and the osram is a 4D.

How do you figure? If he's moving the whole housing the vector is constant. Unless those bars have a horizon adjustment within .

+Igor K Either one is much better than some of the Chinese ones. Cut corners by buying low cost Chinese ones and they will die early. I have the Sylvania ZEVO LEDs in my 2006 Jetta. I found those to be from Italy. That is a nice surprise, I have Italian bulbs in my car now. The parts in my car are mostly from Germany with a few here and there from Mexico.

+jon street Those are 3w Cree XB-D led's, I have far more experience than you, cree doesn't stamp anything on their led's because there is no room. Maybe you are confusing the substrate for the led's or something, regardless you don't know what you're talking about. I have owned and custom built flashlights with every single high power led that cree produces except for the MTG2 and XHP70.

+Preston P who the fuck asked you ..? ebay lights bars rarely ever have cree in them

+jon street the same person that asked you lmfao

+TheCodFather lol never thought of that

Dude whatever.. This are great products for the price.. I own the cree led bar and i love them!

+Andrew Storlie Overpriced RIGID lights that dont show extra light per dollar spent. I'll take the CREE LED in this video any day rather than overpaying for Rigid Industries.

your joking right? osram isnt a light bar company... they are a brand of led manufacturer. the led bars in this video are cheap amazon bars. Rigid Industries is the biggest name brand of led products in the world. if youve never heard of them then you shouldnt even be commenting.

the each individual led in the light bars has NOTHING to do with the quality of the light bar itself... each led could be worth 1000 bucks and have 100% efficiency but that dont mean shit when the led HOUSING is shit. cree, Phillips and osram is ONLY the led itself. and if you know so much about leds then you also would know and fully understand that when leds are made they are sorted in to Bins to separate the top tier and lower tier leds. the low tier leds are used in cheap led bars like the ones in this video, hense why they are cheap. still osram led just low grade chips. this is my last reply as im not fighting with an idiot who cant tell the difference between an led manufacturer and a led bar brand

i now have the "cheap" chinese bars on my 4x4 for hunting.been in use for over 18 months and i use them almost every night. still like new. my 5 times the price shit reputable brand went bad only after 6 months .i also found these "cheap" cree bars put out more light. each to their own. im sticking to chinese ones and 2 more have been ordered.