All,
I am in need of some light suggestions for our tractor - LX2620 open station.
Some background - when I was running our old International last winter I made a dummy ROPS bar to hang several cheap LED lights. I built it for 360deg lighting and had them switched to "front", "rear", and "sides", a total of 12 units. The light modules were both flood and spot combinations. See link below:
LED lights
The lights, considering their price point, were adequate.
However, I want better lighting than these offered. I am not sure what a more appropriate articulation of "better lighting" is. I don't know if that is more lumens, spot vs. flood, scrap the spot and significantly increase the lumens in flood, go with a different light temperature, etc, etc. I really don't know what the terminology would be.
What I can articulate is that the OEM headlights on my tractor rock.
The crapper to the OEM headlights is they are low and do almost nothing when I am doing loader work. And therein lies the problem.
I really need to be able to see all around me when I am out in the field and the trails at night and with 80% of the spread of the headlights blocked by the loader/plow/forks/pallets, what ever - I can't see well.
That brings up the next point - just like I did on the old tractor - I need to get the lights up high where they can do some good over top of things. However, I am not sure I like the ROPS bar as a mount. Though, it is "there" and convenient from that perspective. I'm just not sure I am going to get an ideal angle from that height.
That gets right back to the articulation of what "better lighting" is. Again - the OEM headlights, when they aren't blocked, work very well.
Is there a type of light out there that might work similar to the OEM headlights, maybe, that I can mount on the ROPS that will do what I think I am after?
I am in need of some light suggestions for our tractor - LX2620 open station.
Some background - when I was running our old International last winter I made a dummy ROPS bar to hang several cheap LED lights. I built it for 360deg lighting and had them switched to "front", "rear", and "sides", a total of 12 units. The light modules were both flood and spot combinations. See link below:
LED lights
The lights, considering their price point, were adequate.
However, I want better lighting than these offered. I am not sure what a more appropriate articulation of "better lighting" is. I don't know if that is more lumens, spot vs. flood, scrap the spot and significantly increase the lumens in flood, go with a different light temperature, etc, etc. I really don't know what the terminology would be.
What I can articulate is that the OEM headlights on my tractor rock.
The crapper to the OEM headlights is they are low and do almost nothing when I am doing loader work. And therein lies the problem.
I really need to be able to see all around me when I am out in the field and the trails at night and with 80% of the spread of the headlights blocked by the loader/plow/forks/pallets, what ever - I can't see well.
That brings up the next point - just like I did on the old tractor - I need to get the lights up high where they can do some good over top of things. However, I am not sure I like the ROPS bar as a mount. Though, it is "there" and convenient from that perspective. I'm just not sure I am going to get an ideal angle from that height.
That gets right back to the articulation of what "better lighting" is. Again - the OEM headlights, when they aren't blocked, work very well.
Is there a type of light out there that might work similar to the OEM headlights, maybe, that I can mount on the ROPS that will do what I think I am after?
