What off-road light should I buy? | LED vs Halogen vs HID - Light Sources 

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I'm not too old, and like hallogen over led 💪 i think leds are much brighter but doesn't give the light it should, compared to hallogen

@@kchilites Sounds exciting! :)

@@kchilites Good to know, does the Gravity lights come in spot as well as flood? I havent had the time to check

led pods pack with snow and ice in extreme conditions and barely haze the road. halogen yellow/amber lights hands down over any led on the market insofar as fogs for freezing or below snowing conditions work best

@@kchilites yes I love the old school look I still have a Dozen or so lights some with the stretchy yellow and black covers and some with black and yellow covers

Yeah, that surprised me too. In the past 5 years, pretty much every comparison video raved about LED's and how they're smashing the competition. I never thought so either. HID will be the king of lighting for long range illumination, and durability for a while. The biggest shortcomings for LED at the moment i think are quality of product offerings and how they function (color spectrum, poor long range, power consumption). They can say LED elements last a million hours if they want. The fact is that everyone who's bought an LED light bar or whatever has had them fail LONG before its time. If it's not the LED/electronics failing, water leaks and your light rots from the inside out, or there's condensation on the inside that corrodes the reflector, or LED's dying off one at a time. This next one is the big one for me. Pretty much all LED lights are narrow spectrum lighting..very narrow compared to halogen and HID. Anyone who knows how our eyes and color vision works knows this is a bad bad thing if you're adding the extra lighting to be able to see things in front of you especially out in the distance. Every LED video out there mentions lower power consumption...yeah, lower power use in the crappy little led lights. I have some pretty high output LED flashlights that'll kill 4 18650 batteries in very short time. For offroad car lighting, if you're building an LED setup to compete with 2 or 3 55w HID offroad lights, you'll need to a giant LED light bar that sucks up 300-400watts. Where LED absolutely wins though is for up close, flood/spill lighting. If you want to light up everything directly in front (in close), in all directions, a small LED setup will beat HID and halogen.

That's awesome!! Can't wait.

Yes a comparison video of beam patterns is due, I mean they've only been around since 1970.

this would be interesting. and it's gotta be the actual lights in use, not the drawing. Maybe setting them up on a rack and shining down a road with some things on the sides, some things in the distance, some things way down long range. If you still have them, it would be cool to see the original Daylighters with the 150w Par46 sealed beam spots in there too.

I've seen quite a few offroad racing type setups where they'll have a row HID's mounted where the middle lights are aimed straight out, the lights on the outer left and right are angle inward and cross beams in front of the car . That way there's a hot spot in close where the beams cross, lighting is off to the sides where those beams continue out, and down range illumination from the lights aimed straight out.

KC this is the second time i comment to ask the same question, I am still in search for these lights and even called KC, the rep sad you do not make daylighers with black lens but i see it here. so please help!!!!

That adds to the excitement

Probably can't aim a LED bulb inside of the halogen lamp, KC off-road.

Wch light is brightness

i do quite a few runs up on our mountains and yellow 2500/3k luminosity halogens help when heavy snow is coming down . led pods are useless most of the time

i am gonna say Yes . i just got some H3 130 watt halogens . the package says 200C which is 392 F . that is some HOT bulb glass . the Front lens has lots of heat radiating off of it too . The Front lens might not be at 392 F , i can really feel the heat . recently i have read about Halogen ovens for food cooking . halogen bulbs get HOT . halogens also emit substanital UV radiation .

KC HiLiTES makes sense, thanks!

@@kchilites Understood. Thanks for the answer!

The reason leds are so white is because as you bring the color down it produces less light. You lose half the light bringing it down to yellow. I don't know the physics behind it but I find they still hurt my eyes even at a lower color temperature. I had Amber diode dynamics stage 6 and they still hurt.

My light are all different color spectrum. But it's all good. OEM halogen Hi/low plus HID fog light/white!

Stay with halogen: I use and recommend, "PIAA halogen" -PIAA Xtreme White = 4150 degrees Kelvin w/ 65watt halogen bulb. -PIAA Xtreme White HYBRID = 3900 Kelvin w/ 51watt bulb HI and/or Low beam available on internet order only. I use them in my cars stock headlights. And also in my Suburban 4x4

@@missingremote4388 Thank You!

@@kchilites I'm starting a slow build on a vehicle in Africa for overlanding. I'm want to address lights and after looking and reading, I really can't get past my love of the KC Daylighter in 100w (or even 130w) in a spread beam. Great color, puts light exactly where I need it for the speeds I travel... And they're just damn cool. Thanks for the vids!

Yes great for snow so u wont be blind. Led are white and snow are blind= dangerous.

Also on rainy days, you can barely see the light produced by LED.

@@kchilites let me try that. 👍

@@kchilites way better

Glad I decided to become a civil engineer than stick with being an apprentice electrician.

"I'm an electrician but I don't have the attention span required for a 10 minute video"

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