GEN 2 Baja Designs Squadron Pro setups

[Mariners Fan]

I recently purchased a triple bezel setup from @FordRaptorLights.com with Squadron Pros - spots and driving/combo and I'm wondering if anyone else is running this setup. I'm also wondering how they installed them i.e. spots inboard and driving/combo center or vice versa. TYIA!!!

 

[smurfslayer]

Lots of us.

I have SAE; driving combo and spots, outboard to inboard.
The SAE are just to be street legal.

Honestly, I’ve fallen out of love with the squadron spots and think I’ll swap to the driving combo lenses. I’d like some more infill.

S8+XL80 spots more than adequately push out far

spots are easy to aim but they’re low and easy to block with terrain, vegetation, etc.

For just the triple bezel, if street legal isn’t a concern, I really like the wide corner. I wish B/D made a wide corner pro with a horizontal cut off so they could be used in bum weather more easily. Sort of like a “super fog” lamp.
Anyway, wide corner is superb at lighting up roadside critters.

if I only had the 3 per bumper opening I think I’d do wide corner, 2x driving combo.

 

[Mariners Fan]

Lots of us.

I have SAE; driving combo and spots, outboard to inboard.
The SAE are just to be street legal.

Honestly, I’ve fallen out of love with the squadron spots and think I’ll swap to the driving combo lenses. I’d like some more infill.

S8+XL80 spots more than adequately push out far

spots are easy to aim but they’re low and easy to block with terrain, vegetation, etc.

For just the triple bezel, if street legal isn’t a concern, I really like the wide corner. I wish B/D made a wide corner pro with a horizontal cut off so they could be used in bum weather more easily. Sort of like a “super fog” lamp.
Anyway, wide corner is superb at lighting up roadside critters.

if I only had the 3 per bumper opening I think I’d do wide corner, 2x driving combo.

I was thinking spots inboard would be best as well. That way I'd get more of the spread from the driving/combo to the outsides. I'm going to try and aim the S1's in amber down as much as possible and see if I can't get away with using it as an (SAEish) fog, though I know its not intended to be.
I really liked the Rigid Sideshooters and hyperspots paired and a Radiance Scene but the interchangeability of the BD lenses is what decided me. I figure if I want to change the shape of my lighting it'll be cheaper to change lenses than a whole new light.

 

[smurfslayer]

Really the only street safe B/D light is the SAE. I left my wide corner lights on once at the hospital, and did a remote start, which fires up the up-fitters.

Ho.
Lee.
Cr@p.

those wide corners are bright as F***.
We are talking Holywood movie alien abduction scene bright. Retina burning, spot seeing, shadow burned into concrete bright.

and the wide corners throw light everywhere. D/C is 1/2 wide corner.

Oncoming drivers will curse you.

 

[Mariners Fan]

@smurfslayer, LOL! I started my conversation with @FordRaptorLights.com with questions about what was street legal and what wasn't. I went back and forth on what setup I wanted - SAE, some kind of combination of SAE and offroad, etc. I finally decided I didn't really need more light on the street as I live on the edge of the city so gimme ALL the lumens! I drive 23 miles up the mountain skiing quite a bit and I think I can get away with running the amber S1 as a fog light on that road, we'll see come winter.

 

[OffroadAlliance.com]

@Mariners Fan

Spots inner most, driving/combo middle with the S1's in the outer most position since you went with our bezel kit.

 

[sixshooter_45]

Still haven't installed mine yet but will very soon and it will be the same, Pro spots, Pro driving/combo, the SAE wide cornering from inboard to outboard.

Then my S1 backup lights.

 

[Mariners Fan]

Still haven't installed mine yet but will very soon and it will be the same, Pro spots, Pro driving/combo, the SAE wide cornering from inboard to outboard.

Then my S1 backup lights.

I went with the S2's for reverse lights, probably overkill but what the hey. Since its now looking like I'm stuck outside the US until Sept. I'm going to have my wife take the truck to the place that installed my hard shell tonneau to do the lights. I'd intended to do them myself but when I contacted the installer about his pricing on lights he said he can't even come close on prices but they'd love to do the install. You just got yourself some business buddy! I thought it was pretty cool of him....

 

[SS308]

Really the only street safe B/D light is the SAE. I left my wide corner lights on once at the hospital, and did a remote start, which fires up the up-fitters.

Ho.
Lee.
Cr@p.

those wide corners are bright as F***.
We are talking Holywood movie alien abduction scene bright. Retina burning, spot seeing, shadow burned into concrete bright.

and the wide corners throw light everywhere. D/C is 1/2 wide corner.

Oncoming drivers will curse you.

Your descriptions kill me! LOL!

 

[sixshooter_45]

I went with the S2's for reverse lights, probably overkill but what the hey. Since its now looking like I'm stuck outside the US until Sept. I'm going to have my wife take the truck to the place that installed my hard shell tonneau to do the lights. I'd intended to do them myself but when I contacted the installer about his pricing on lights he said he can't even come close on prices but they'd love to do the install. You just got yourself some business buddy! I thought it was pretty cool of him....

I think the S1 put out more lumens than the S2 and if either is just tied to an uplifter switch, just use them when you won't be blinding others.