Who Has Light Cannons and Wants Them To look Like This?

[Boss Hoss]

That's right! According to you, I don't know anything about anything, so I'll just help share your infinite words of wisdom with the world.

I know many members of this forum have VX Light Cannons mounted on the lower a-pillar mounts. If you are one of these people, I suggest you keep quiet because Boss Hoss says that you are just trying to be cool by putting them there and you don't really care about performance.

Question directed to Boss Hoss by member etailian2005:
Response from Boss Hoss:

After reading those words of Boss Hoss wisdom, I'm sure all you "grasshoppers" with hood mount lights are going to realize what a mistake you made by installing them there and go out and smash them with a sledge hammer.

The reason I started this thread is I have the mounts that were fabricated specifically for the Light Cannons that I do not need any longer. Would like to send them to someone who does.

Edited by BH

 

[justvettn]

 

[Cleave]

I'm sorry but I don't see how low mounted light cannons would be better off than high mounted, they are extreme spot pattern and the lower you mount them the more likely they will get blocked by obstacles and the larger any shadows from such obstacles would be, other lights would be very useful low mounted but light cannons are not one of them in my opinion

 

[MotuMute]

What about mounting some high and low. Fore and aft.

Wait! These beauties aren't MIC's right??

MIC= MadeInYouKnowWhere cue Dan, Bieber, and some actual controversy ya bored *******

 

[BAJASVT]

I'm sorry but I don't see how low mounted light cannons would be better off than high mounted, they are extreme spot pattern and the lower you mount them the more likely they will get blocked by obstacles and the larger any shadows from such obstacles would be, other lights would be very useful low mounted but light cannons are not one of them in my opinion

This was Boss Hoss' full reasoning from another thread as to why he mounted them in the bumper:

Ahhhhhh young grasshopper ask and ye shall find wisdom.. I am not about cool only performance. Lights that are on the hood will ruin a lot of the human eye's ability to see into the darkness because the ambient scattered light that must be processed. Additionally, any dust that is in the air refracts light and that screws with the ability to see through it.

Think of it this way---when on the road turn the interior light on low if you can and the instrument lights as bright as they will get. You cannot see as far or in as much detail..

Despite our differences, I'll give Boss credit for making some valid points. The higher the light, the more the light will pollute the air. With that said, I still feel that Light Cannons are one of the best lights available for the lower a-pillar location because of their tight spot pattern. If I was installing lights in the bumper cutouts, I'd use something with at least a 20º beam pattern or a 10º/20º combo pair of cubes (i.e. Dually, Squadron, 3" LZR, etc.).

 

[sabumaru]

I think we are loking at a personal prefrence issue here
Like some say that roof bars are un needed when you have a 20" bumper/grill bar

Some people see better in the dark one way or a nother
We are not all created equal
So the way we percieve our world is diffrent as well

Lets keep it at that

In a diffrent thread i posted that there is a rull of tumb used by the Baja communtiy
Lower mounted then headlights is flood and mist lighting
Equal to headlight = driving lights
Hood mounted is spot lights for high speed
Roof mounted is highspeed or flood
And mirror mounted is flood

Bit again this is rule of tumb
Its all down to prefrences
Also what you think fits the look and feelthat the truck keeps after the placement of the lights

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[Boss Hoss]

I think we are loking at a personal prefrence issue here
Like some say that roof bars are un needed when you have a 20" bumper/grill bar

Some people see better in the dark one way or a nother
We are not all created equal
So the way we percieve our world is diffrent as well

Lets keep it at that

In a diffrent thread i posted that there is a rull of tumb used by the Baja communtiy
Lower mounted then headlights is flood and mist lighting
Equal to headlight = driving lights
Hood mounted is spot lights for high speed
Roof mounted is highspeed or flood
And mirror mounted is flood

Bit again this is rule of tumb
Its all down to prefrences
Also what you think fits the look and feelthat the truck keeps after the placement of the lights

---------- Post added at 11:48 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:42 AM ----------

Very good points. Personally I do not tear through the desert at 90mph. That being said if you have enough lumens being projected into the night then it will be able to be seen just by the sheer magnitude of the light being produced. On my Raptor I had 50w hid's (Osram bulbs) with some of the best performing projectors available coupled with the Light Cannons provided all of the usable light I needed. Additionally, I prefer the clean look. The Jeep has four light cannons plus another smaller Vision X light in the small fog cut out in the bumper. The headlights are Hella hids's with Osram bulbs.

Have back in the 80's like everyone else had the Daylighters mounted on the roll bar and the glare off the hood plus the reflection off of the Texas dust played hell seeing what I wanted to at times.

 

[sabumaru]

Here is a movie of a guy claiming the brightest car in the world with 82.000 lumens

His own words are that is not even useble light
As it is to bright .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiszsJ6RjE4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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[mudblood]

PERFECT......................NOW THAT SHOULD BE MADE A STICKY!!!:********:

 

[sonoma]

I like that. Thanks for posting