COVERT UTV Lighting Choices

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I often like to drive around in the silence of my John Deere E-Gator around dusk. Lights off. I have been thinking about replacing the headlamps with something more sophisticated. The OEM lamps are like a couple of candles. They can be replaced with a 4x6 headlight.

I came across "Octane Lighting" products with various headlight schemes, but most intriguing are the LED Halo models that have single various colored rings around the perimeter. I don't like other makes with all kinds of crazy white stripes and loops like so many modern day vehicles have. Just looks silly to me.

Some of the RED and AMBER models are very bright, used for daylight warning lamps.

Does anyone have experience using colored lights for night (private property) driving? Red vs amber? Protection of your night vision and so forth. Amber would have daytime benefits that the Red would not afford on public roadways. Unfortunately, they are not dimmable.

And not that I intend on driving through heavy fog any time soon, but I always wondered between yellow "fog" lights and dark amber ones.
 
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Years ago, we would ride around in the desert with IR headlights and night vision. I'm fairly certain we were pretty stealthy, since nobody shot at us.
 
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A little off topic, but Seizmik sells mirrors with LEDs. They are called Pursuit Night Vision. The idea is to give a little light on each side of your side by side. They have both white and green LEDs. They claim the green are to preserve your night vision. I am not suggesting the mirrors are what you need, only green LEDs might be the answer for night vision.
 
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Thanks. It seems that Green is a good color as far as how the eye works.

As far as serching for my Lady Friends errant house cat, after dark goes, alley lights would be good.
 

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