Off road Led Lights comparison - Harbor Freight, Baja Design, Knockoff "LP6", Auxbeam 

I am planning on doing more comparisons like this one, please comment on what lights you want to see compared below, thank you!

Harbor freight has been killing it in the off road community. Not all of us can afford $1000 winches and $1000 lights. Thank you for this video

Man, super well done video. Ive been considering the HF lights, specifically the 3 inch LED pairs for my bike and the $100 4 LED spotlight and I can't find anything this comprehensive on any of them. This review of the Edge gives promise for the others. I appreciate that you actually measured the LUX and not just lumens and took the time to address things like the better side light spread. Not many people do such comprehensive reviews so your work stands out. Lookin forward to more! *Also, not sure if a shootout between all the new HF lights would bring enough revenue to fund the whole project but Id certainly watch it 😊

Thank you for taking the time and the effort and producing and bringing us this video. Very well done again I appreciate it.

I'm such a nerd, I watched the whole video.

Thanks, this was perfect. I was specifically looking for something that was like a “super” fog light to mount low. Getting to see the light patterns of these was nice

KILLER video! The back to back comparisons are great but showing the low vs high with your truck lights on and off man you really showed the real world application. Very impressed!

That was the best comparison video of the lights I’ve ever seen. Good Job.

I think these roadshock edge lights might be answering the lighting need and desire people have been trying to satisfy. These lights aren't about marketing numbers and data points, these are lights people use & then they start caring about lighting quality. hotspots are ugly and take more effort for your body to process than smooth even lighting. The amber covers are totally the better choice of lighting, I know some people are crazy about bright white leds, but yellow & amber are so much better at night. People are over light bars, there's no good reason to use one when a single set of pod lights will outperform. right now people are nostalgic for old off road lights, but want modern equivalents.

Very well put together comparison. Thank you for the effort and money spent to bring us this info. Really enjoyed the side-by-side screen shots to show the instant comparison. Thanks brother!

Best pod light comparison video on RU-vid.

Great video! Very thorough and clear!

If you take the HF Lumens/BD Lumens you will see its 80%+. I bought 7 HF lights for $1200 (lightbar) and 4 of the smaller 4 leds ($400) , so $1600 for the setup for under two pairs of BD with 80%+ the output, HF for the win

Added the HF lights last week and am extremely happy with every aspect of them. Your video validated my decision.

Really well done video, thank you for the effort you put into this

Thank you for showing what a driver would actually see from an off road light. I watched Harbor Freights on the new Edge lights and they placed the camera about 20 feet from the light and Pointed directly into the light. That tells a driver Nothing about the down the road view of the beam. Sure it is bright when pointed into your eyes but so is a Pen Light.

Great video, you’re one of the reviews I’ve seen that provides the flip back and forth for the light comparisons, thanks!

Excellent choice on the background music and not having something annoying! Great vid thank you! HF it is!

We're in the market for floods. This solidifies that Harbor Freight will be the one we go with. Thanks for taking the time to do this video

I just made a light bar with 6 of the harbor freight 4s. (6s are way to big for a light bar). The HB lights are amazing for the price and quality

Well put together video! Rather shocked at the HF lights! I too have had very good results with the Auxbeam lights as well, especially for their price.

I grabbed a set of 6” two weeks ago. Haven’t installed them but for the cost they become close enough to the quality of BD. Nice job on the video.

Great video thank you for taking the time to go into such detail.

Excellent video with great nighttime comparisons. Baja is insane @ just under $1000 for two lights... I don't care how good they are... I wouldn't spend that much. The Harbor Freight lights are extremely impressive. I particularly like how wide the peripheral illumination is. Even though these are listed as off road use only... we all know many people who live in rural areas will use these to watch for Deer etc... and the wide illumination is perfect for watching Ditches. but they also have a powerful long distance throw for long distance illumination. BD simply isn't worth their over 3x higher price... I actually purchased the first set of the HF LED6's at my local store..when they had their 15%off special, no exclusions. so they were like $127 each, they know me as a regular so they allowed me to make two separate purchases to get the deal on each one (it was a 1 discount per person/per day thing). they never even knew they existed & had never seen them... I showed them the HF website listing, they searched the item number... and they had to go in the back room & dig thru their recent pallet delivery to find a box. I bought their first and only set. sold individually, but boxed in groups of two. I can tell you, even the box is high quality... the lights themselves are Hefty, they feel substantial. they have nice finishes & quality wiring. (important note: it's worth it to buy their premade wiring/dual switch (like $59 i think).... being these need a pretty heavy gauge wire for the amperage draw & have low & high positions as well as an optional amber backlight.... they must be wired with separate dedicated power leads for low & high... you CANNOT power low beam & them add power to the high beam trigger.. you'll damage them... each trigger wire must be independently powered one or the other at a time. I've had their cheaper road shock pod lights for several years & use them literally every day as a driving/fog light... zero problems, no water/condensation issues, no burnt out diodes or frosted lenses... those are their cheaper ones... still happy...I also have the Rigid pod lights, they are a bit brighter, work perfectly, but again, 3x more & the finish on those has peeled after 5 years. These new line of H.F. EDGE lights.. you can tell the quality is way better.. so I think these are gonna be VERY popular for the average consumer... most people can justify $149 per light (300/set) but it's really hard to choke down the thought of $980 (plus tax) for something not much better... and even then... it's a personal opinion if it's even noticeable for 3x more.... Harbor Freight knocked these lights outta the park!

Good video the field view was a great help 👍 I'm on a budget and HF has worked great for me and will probably get the lights

I think the side shot of the lights should be out in the field instead next to the garage door. I think you were getting some garage door light bounce off for the lux comparison. Other than that great video. The HF lights are impressive for the price. Better than I thought.

I've been running BD LP4 and LP6 lights on my 1st gen tacoma for over 4 years in every imaginable weather condition as I live where it shows, is foggy, blizzards, sand storms, etc. I can't count how many times I've had dudes stop to talk to me about how much better my lights are in all conditions on road or off-road.

Nacho Grandes not being in this comparison is a travesty. Those can be had for 30% off if you look around so two of them would cost $560 and they are the top dog in my observation

You gota make the little color spots up top at 21:26 bigger. Can't tell what is what... (especially as they aren't in order) But, overall really good vid! (I'd never spend $1k on lights... my body would just shut down)

Thanks for this video! Very well done and evenly comparisons, I'm pretty surprised with the harbor freight results! Looks like a very nice alternative.

Thank you for this. I have a 2022 Tundra and want to get some of the HF lights, and this really really helps. But I do have a question. Do you think these could be mounted on hood mounts (Up by the windshield) and still function well? My concern is that the HF may illuminate the hood very brightly and be counterproductive to true vision. Thoughts? (Any response would be welcome and I would be thankful. )

Fantastic Review! Harbor Freight is KNOCKING it out of the park for budget lights.

Really like the pattern of the harbor freight lights. Did you happen to test the amp draw of the lights?

This is plain incredible. Getting to see them in action helped a lot. The Baja Design lights are awesome, but to supplement a good set of stock headlights they may not be so necessary. Those Harbor Freight lamps seem like theybwould work excellently with a good set of stock headlights.

Loved the review, really impressed with HB and mostly with BD. 1k for a pair is still tough. Do you think the novsight halo 6 inches could compete in this segment?

Great comparison! Any chance you want to do the same comparison with the smaller set of new HF ones as well? 😄 I just picked up a set of the colight trailblazer lights otherwise I’d definitely pick up a set of these HF. Nice job 👍

Thanks. Very well done comparo. HF has come out with a great light for the $$.

Honestly I think the HF is the way to go just from a price to performance stand point. But if you really do want the best of the best BD still has that position.

Good review. Would have been interesting to see the Roadshock Edge 4 LED light rolled into this comparison. Not so much as a comparison with the Roadshock 6 LED or BD, but I bet it would have fared nicely against the Auxbeam and Knockoff LP6 and at only $210 for a pair...

I think the HF is better as an offroad light compared to BD. The foreground on the BD is too intense and will impair your distance vision. Compared to the HF that’s dark in the middle of the foreground, but increases width. The less intense foreground is filled with the low beams, so there’s no need for the BD’s foreground.

What is the color temperature like on the HF lights versus the BD ones? The blue quality of most aftermarket LEDs really bothers me, so I've installed Diode Dynamics yellow lights with clear lenses retrofit for a nice ~4k kelvin temperature. The periphery lighting of the HF RS6 lights has me really interested in putting a pair of them on the roof rack, instead of the LP9 sports that I've been trying to justify.

I heard rough country came out with some nice lights

I bought the HF ones and honestly no complaints for the price.

Superb!

I am not spending $300 on harbor freight lights. There might be a slim chance I would if they had like a 5-10 year warranty but I’d much rather pay for some other brand, not spending $300 for 90 days.

Tractor supply has some nice off road lights too.

I think the harbor freight lights will be a perfect replacement for my stock tj fog lights. 99% of the time I use fog lights on the dark desert back roads without high beams.

Great work

No denying the Roadshock is a good value. I would say that when installed, the side shooters will be prone to blockage by bumper shape and the other lights being alongside. What many enthusiasts don't always fully grasp is that @bajadesigns is really a RACE lighting company. When driving at speed, that additional "side shooter" is going to be a distraction to your peripherals. I will concede that this isn't as much of a concern for most consumers. However, this is why BD puts so much emphasis on their lighting Zones. Having installed, driven, and raced with a multitude of lights: they really are the top of the heap, but you gotta pay to play.

Was this test completed with a single light or are these numbers with the pair of lights? Thanks

Tks,, very helpful info. HF going on my bronco!

Nacho Offroad Technology just came out with a large bar mount light called The Grande

My conclusion: The HF lights are a little weak in the middle compared to the BD lights but the HF lights are clear winners in the side light area. The headlights fill in the middle where the HF are weak so I give the HF lights the win. Would like to know how the Auxbeam 20" lightbar compares to the HF lights. It is a combo of spot and flood and as impressive as the KC Hilite LED headlights are on my Wrangler, the $37 Auxbeam lightbar out shines them. For anyone who has had both, why use a pair of lights over a lightbar? The pair of lights has 12 total LEDs and my lightbar is 18" of double row LEDs with many flood lights and spot lights.

I think I prefer the less bright harbor freight lights, they don't wash out any definition.

Here come that Harbor Freight Train!

You gotta add the Auxbeam pro 360 7in in the mix

I really wish you would have put these all on a simple watt meter. Wattage is king, and no doubt it would have very much correlated to output. There is no magic lens, or magic diode, work is work, but marketing is perception.

Super awesome man . A lot of information so I don’t have to , I love it

interesting info, but Baja Designs all the way here

Hf looked wide but dark ... Aux was 2"s smaller which is not comparable

Your "Lp6" amazon is more like Baja Design LP9.

Just wanna say that the 6 road shock edge is not 300 a pieace there 150

Epic thumbnail typo 🤣

Nacho Offroad Technology

Check your spelling on Baja DESIGNS, not Deisngs. And in your headline it's misspelled, too. Baja Designs (plural), not Design (singular).

Id prefer the unfinished Baja design plug. that way i don't have a break or large junction in the wiring harness. Better than having a massive tape joint 6" from my light. HF slay... They're going to reset all these overpriced companies redesign and evaluate their prices....

I wouldn’t buy lights that cost more than my car note lol unless I’m getting a tax write off there is absolutely no reason for your average person to own a $1000 off-road light.

harbor freight wins overall. simple math

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Could i use this on my sequoia as a ditch light or is it too big for that purpose?

Good video.. 👍