A-Pillar Lighting

[Loufish]

...and oh yeah....the Ruby Red is the ****-nit....

 

[zombiekiller]

Not to hijack the thread. I’m looking for the same setup on my truck. Now I got some old Offroad pros telling me to turn those lights out about 20 degrees to light the sides more. They said it helps a lot with turning. Any thoughts?

It does help with turning, however, keep in mind that every race truck has a light bar above the windshield too. On a raptor, those A-pillar lights are your only source of high angle definition lighting. here's why that is important:

The best way to be able to see the bumps coming at you is to have multiple light angles illuminating the same object. a bumper light bar pointed at a fixed object that is 3 feet tall will hit it straight on. If you then aim the A-pillar lights at the same object, they hit it at a different angle, which will create some shadows but also makes it easy to judge that object based on creating definition and depth.

Now, if you angle those a pillar lights out to help with turning, you're going to lose the ability to create definition in the center of your field of vision, this is bad. You'll essentially create a spot in the middle of the truck, where you can't see as well and have slightly different depth perception based on the lack of "depth" to the objects since you've kicked the lights that help with this outward.

Now, If you have a lightbar on the roof as well, then yes, kick those lights out the 20 degrees.

If not, give it some real thought. Buy wide/driving lenses and spot lenses. Go out in the dark and play with which lenses and how they are pointed ( At speed, standing still won't help much.) and hash out which works best for your eyesight.

 

[marcm]

Another option I am looking at is the Oracle side mirrow lights (less intrusive)

 

[pastorwug]

Another option I am looking at is the Oracle side mirrow lights (less intrusive)

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Anyone here that would recommend these mirror-lights?
I watched their install video and it seems to be a straightforward install.
Might be a good possibility.

 

[zombiekiller]

Anyone here that would recommend these mirror-lights? Seem kind of cheesy, like a JC Whitney item.

i've seen them on a few gen1s, but not on a gen2.

 

[BCRAZY]

Another option I am looking at is the Oracle side mirrow lights (less intrusive)

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Just my 2 cents, those are UGLY

 

[NE Raptor]

I appreciate all the input from everyone!!! I think I am going with the combo XL80s on the alternative mounts

9600 lumens out of a light that size is impressive!!

 

[BCRAZY]

You also may have issues with static on your radio with Pillars, I recommend getting a set of Ferrite Rings https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CWCSNW9/?tag=fordraptorforum-20

I also like the cleaner mount with Rigid vs the XL80's

 

[raptor36]

So I had the XL Pros on our demo truck but realized I wanted a brighter spot. So we went with XL80s but put spot lenses on them (something we offer at 4x4TruckLEDs.com).]

That sounds amazing. Just curious, is the optics from the XL racer that you put into the XL80? Looks like I found my Christmas present. Those would make great A pillar lights for sure.



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[4x4TruckLEDs.com]

XL Racer optics are different then XL/XL80.

XL Racers are 4300 lumen each and designed to throw light in one spot... WAYYY down range. So while they don't pack a lot of lumen, they have different optics. (http://www.4x4truckleds.com/led-auxiliary-lights/baja-designs/xl-racer-edition/)

The XL80 are 9500 lumen each. While not offered in a spot pattern we stock all the lenses Baja makes so I swapped out the Driving/Combo I had for spots. They seem to work great. I opted for Spot over Driving/Combo because i wanted to reduce glare as much as possible. I had bad glare on my white F150 but no glare on the lightning blue one it seems, so i probably could have gone with Driving/Combo. BUT because I also run 4x LP9 in Driving/Combo I don't really need XL80s in driving/combo... so spot it was (http://www.4x4truckleds.com/led-auxiliary-lights/baja-designs/xl80/)