Bar or Pods? Need to decide...

[GabAlmighty]

Not sure if it's been mentioned before but is there a lot of wind noise with the rear corner hood mounted pods?

 

[Jimbo]

It's not even close. I'd say the kc hid pods have triple the range of the 8.7" cannons.

Bars are good for area lighting, but lack in range. The cannons throw roughly 30-40 % further than a high end bar.
Hid spots throw easily double what the cannons do, but there is a downside. The "hotspot" is so intense that it kills your night vision outside the spot, especially in hilly terrain where you've got the spots on a land feature closer than a couple hundred yards away.
I'm currently running a 20" bar for fill, two 7" 75 watt hid spots, two 6.7" led cannons and two 4" hid spots.
Got a 50" radius bar, 4 more led light cannons, and 6 more hid spots sitting in the garage that have been on and off the truck at one time or another. I have a problem according to my wife.

Pics of said setup?

 

[ntm]

Pics of said setup?

Nothing recent with the led cannon pair, the 50" radius bar was unimpressive enough for light output and wind noise that it wasn't on long.

For whom asked, there is no wind noise from the cowl mounted lights.

 

[Bulletnjm]

Hey, thats not canada there no snow

 

[Jimbo]

Which bar did you have on there?

 

[ntm]

Hey, thats not canada there no snow

Tell me about it, it's currently -37, snowing straight sideways, dark when I go to work in the morning, dark when I go home. Hence the lack of pictures !

I've tried a few 20" bars, the one that's on there is a 10 watt led "hanning" bar. Kicks the snot out of the 20" rigid on my other truck.

The 50" radius is the same as the m&r bar with a mix of flood and spot 3 watt led's. It gave a nice flood of the closer stuff, but had no reach compared to the spots. It was very easy to overrun the available light when only using it.
The single 20" does 70% of what the 50" did, with 100% less ugly and wind noise.

 

[KC HiLiTES]

I opted for 5 50watt visionx 6.7 hids. Cause well the pods are insane. Wish they made a non composite version with the same optic

In the works now. Same great power and performance but more affordable.

 

[Huck]

In the works now. Same great power and performance but more affordable.

well that sucks