LED Work Lights

[Thumper & Buttercup]

Hey Guys,

Finally got all the wiring and lights in, and had a couple days to do the work. I bought all my wiring and switches from a marine boating place on e-bay, good prices and good service. This place has the wiring loom like the tractor comes with and I wanted to put all the harness in them to make the install look factory.

Wiring supplier - genuinedealz
Lights supplier - thetrailershoppecom

I purchased my lights from a trailer supply place again on e-bay, pretty good service, they sent my first set of lights in a mail bag, the rings that snap on the lights got broken. I mentioned it to them and the next set they sent in a box and came OK. They still have not sent my rings but I'm not sure I'm going to use them.

My only mistake was making my upper light brackets out of thinner metal, when it warms up I'll make new ones out of 1/4" steel and all will be good. We turned off the shop lights and turned on just the flood lights, you can see they are plenty bright, sorry about the crappy photos I used my wife's camera instead of my good cannot one. I'll try to get some outside photos later when we get a good dark night. These lights are bright enough to put on for headlights for guys who don't have a good set or want to knock down the power problems. They only pull .63 amps each. Hope this helps.

Lower lights, brackets were made from L shaped deck building brackets.

Upper lights, brackets are flat steel with u-clamps and
rubber under bracket so it will not scratch paint.

Wife showing off lights.

Front and rear lights turned on in a dark shop. Sorry about the blurry photo her camera is slow and I was not steady enough.

 

[jas67]

Thumper,

Those lights look great! I went to "thetrailershop.com" website, but they don't seem to have a "web store". What is the make/model of the actual lights? Maybe I can source them through a local trailer shop.

Thanks,
Jay

 

[BigD23]

Lights look great, good job! In my old hot rodding days, would have told you it looks "sanitary".

Don

 

[Thumper & Buttercup]

Hey Jay,

Sorry I forgot to add the Light details, here is the
name of them.

Maxxima MWL-01 Heavy Duty LED Work Light

I got them for $64.95 on their e-bay web site.

 

[gordyy]

nice have any night time shots
I know its hard to get them what with our LONG days now
lol
What part of this great state you from
jimtown here the big buffalo town

 

[Thumper & Buttercup]

Hey Gordyy,

We are west of Grand Forks, yep I thought about late shots last night but about 10pm I was plumb lazy.

 

[MJPetersen]

They look very nice Thumper. Good job!! Now you can see what you want to see and what you do not want to see!!

Mike

 

[wwalkersd]

Maxxima MWL-01 Heavy Duty LED Work Light

I got them for $64.95 on their e-bay web site.

Not cheap, but that's a good price. I just did a google search and nearly everywhere else they're $101.95 each.

 

[Thumper & Buttercup]

I know they are expensive at $65 but compared to the price of $465 for one JD HID light these four are about half that cost of one JD light.

We've got some weather coming in but hopefully later in the week I'll get a couple night shots in, that photo of the lights are just the work lights, I don't have any of the regular lights turned on there.

These lights are a sealed unit, you can't get into them, so if enough lights burn out you will need to replace the hole unit.

 

[wwalkersd]

I know they are expensive at $65 but compared to the price of $465 for one JD HID light these four are about half that cost of one JD light.

We've got some weather coming in but hopefully later in the week I'll get a couple night shots in, that photo of the lights are just the work lights, I don't have any of the regular lights turned on there.

These lights are a sealed unit, you can't get into them, so if enough lights burn out you will need to replace the hole unit.

Apples and oranges, comparing LEDs to HIDs. I'm sure the HIDs are much brighter, but your LEDs look pretty darn good! And it'll be a long, long time before those LEDs burn out.

 

[gordyy]

hope you are missing the stuff blowing thru here ringht now I think its supposed to stay in the lower rr valley
nasty wind and more than a little rain first thunderstorm of the year
haha
still got 2 ft of snow here and its going fast at 39 and raining hard
watch out down aberdeen SD way its going to be coming their way in a week or two as slow as the james runs

 

[Thumper & Buttercup]

We were at 50 degrees today, the runoff from one treeline was enough to keep a 4 foot culvert over full and going strong.

They are calling for one to two inches up here, we are checking the low roads a couple times a day to check when we are going to have to close them. We canceled an appointment in Fargo tomorrow, the way this stuff is going we could get out but not back home.

The water running through here is higher than the 97 flood
was.

 

[gordyy]

sitting looking out the window at the snow coming down
have Dr appt in Fargo tomorrow hope I dont have to cancel that one
he is hard to get in to see
at least they are saying only 2 or 3 inches for us tonight not the 6-12 they were talking about yesterday
have enough water around here right now

 

[JMynes]

I know they are expensive at $65 but compared to the price of $465 for one JD HID light these four are about half that cost of one JD light.

We've got some weather coming in but hopefully later in the week I'll get a couple night shots in, that photo of the lights are just the work lights, I don't have any of the regular lights turned on there.

These lights are a sealed unit, you can't get into them, so if enough lights burn out you will need to replace the hole unit.

Man the weather sucks out your way! I sure hope it blows out to sea and doesn't linger over New England.

When you get a chance to get-r outside and try those lights out let us know if they're as bright as you hoped they would be. I want to add some lights, and I like the idea of low amperage draw, but I'm gonna need to see while moving next year's snow.

 

[Thumper & Buttercup]

We'll we've been on road patrol the last few days, we are flooded over higher than I've seen in 30+ years, we got
10+ inches of snow last night and today, I'll be hitting the yard tomorrow with the blower and back on road patrol, we only have one east west road open all the way and none of our north south roads are fully open.

I'll get the lights tested when things get better.


I'm starting a new post over in Rural Living to follow the snow and keep this one on the Lights.

 

[newbury]

Any follow up on the brightness of the lights? I bought a pair to test out but haven't done anything more than hook them up to a battery.
I've tried to find out output in Lumens, but couldn't find it yet.
/edit
I did find out that "HID bulbs typically produce 71 lumens of light per watt compared to 18 lumens of light per watt for standard halogen bulbs. " (http://www.aa1car.com/library/hid_headlamps.htm), and CREE has an LEd that puts out about 120 Lumens/watt.

 

[medicshawn]

I have the same lights but they are still sitting in the bottom drawer waiting to get installed.

 

[newbury]

Does anyone have wiring diagrams for something like these?
I don't want to blow $130 of lights.

 

[Builder]

I have LED running lights on the front of the cab of my NH backhoe and I think they're noticeably brighter & sharper than the bulb type counterparts on the rear of the cab.

 

[TeamNH]

Thumper, can you put up a picture of where you mounted the switches? i have the TC34DA, with the same loader, and want to do the same thing, but i have been tossing around where to put the switches. Thx