I'm going to have a go at making my own lightbar, what could possibly go wrong?...

[BramageDained]

Still need to make the mount for behind the grill tomorrow as last bit of snoball prep, but, that should be pretty straightforward.

Amber rear+blue for front for the snow.



Amber is mounted with custom adjustable and removable adhesive mounts that look suspiciously like the extra GoPro mounts I had laying around.

I doubt someone would swipe it, but, if they do, I'm only out $30 in materials and some time. Then I'd just make a proper one like the smaller blue lights with another revision.

Temporary mountable since I'm not sure enough on where to mount it to drill holes in my truck.



I have enough LEDs left to make a few more, but, my ideas for the next version require some tools I do not currently have access to.

For now, anyway, the rear and front, center are going to be tied to the same upfitter switch. I have another driver so they could be separate, but, this was an afterthought and I cannot get more heat sink in time to mount another driver.

Switch 1 will run the center/rear

Switch 2 will run the outer 4 on the front.

I could run it all off of one switch since it's ~21A, but, I choose not to for now.

 

[BramageDained]

Hah, all weekend at the snoball I was too busy having fun to remember to take pictures of my lights out on the trail.

I'm quite pleased, the blue in the front made a huge difference over the factory HIDs, and the rear facing amber box was a big help according to people who were behind me.

I had more than a couple people ask "Whose lights are those?" then get to reply "Mine, I made them".

Anyway, a picture I found that Heather took.

I'm sure others will surface from the run.

 

[BramageDained]

Pictures from outside just now, I should get ones in the dark tonight.

The wiring is fugly still. I finished with 3.5 hours until I had to leave for snoball early Friday morning and it's really cold outside here right now. It will be all neat and orderly eventually.

Anyway:

You can see that the LEDs are all a clear shot through the gaps in the letters, which is exactly what I was after to begin with.

 

[BramageDained]

Night time.

Street:

Headlights only:

Headlights+my lights:

 

[Captain Awesome]

Nice love the Blue!

 

[Nick@Apollo-Optics]

Wow...blue really does light up the snow. I knew everyone said that but this is the first output shot I've seen. Very cool.

 

[sabumaru]

That looks insanely good

 

[Blind1]

yea Blue Snow looks way better than Yellow Snow!

 

[BramageDained]

I'm calling winter over and switched to clear covers.

This is in the fully lit garage, the best my phone can manage.

 

[Rickoo]

They look awesome. So, after all the work, would you do it again? What did the materials end up costing you?