kick but tractor llight

[hot110ff]

I wanted to share with everybody the light that I installed on my tractor back in the summer. It is a 175 watt metal halide flood light that runs off of a 400 watt inverter thats mounted under the hood. The light is extremely bright and will light up a large swath in front of the tractor. I have it mounted to the underside of the top of the rops and is only temporarily wired in due to the fact that I wasn't sure if the bulb would last. I mounted it back in July and mowed the grass a few times at 10:00 at night and have done numerous other jobs with it and it's still working good. The only drawback to the metal halides is that they take about 2 minutes to reach full brightness and will not fire back up immediately on a hot re-start but for the amount of light they throw it's worth it.

 

[MrJimi]

Very impressive, have you tried aircraft landing lights? they come in 100 watt and 250 watt and are 12 volt ! I used to run 2 of the 250 watt lights in my high beam holes in my Corvette

 

[JB4310]

looks nice, plenty of light, so is it running on 120 volts? that's gotta be a first, is it fused for the 120.
John

 

[elalexander]

OK hot from the second picture you have already melted 1/2 the snow off your pole building Whats the deal...just open the barn door, turn the light on and the snow melts Looks great. I hav e some lights on my tractor and a friend of mine added them to his skidsteer one night when he was feeding he spun around and hit a cow. Black cows at night.....so he put lights on his machine. Great job.

 

[Chris2520]

Thats pretty cool ,
At night it will look like a train comeing....
it sure puts out the light.

Chris...

 

[MACDABS]

Hey , is that your hair burning!!!

Macdabs

 

[hot110ff]

No, it wont burn your hair, I,m only 5'-10" and the rops is high enough that the light is well above your head. The light has a transformer in it that has multiple taps on it for 120, 240, and 277 volts. I don't have it fused yet as the inverter has an overload on it. Once I permanetly wire it in to a factory JD switch I will fuse everything neccessary. You should see the looks on the peoples faces driving by the house when I'm mowing late at night in the summer.

 

[Malvern]

hot110ff,

Great idea, the only thing better than that is two of them!

Malvern

 

[flyngti]

Wow, that last picture looks like something out of 2001 A Space Odyssey. Gotta wear shades when you're coming

Your charging system can handle the 400 watt inverter to power that thing?

 

[JB4310]

No, it wont burn your hair, I,m only 5'-10" and the rops is high enough that the light is well above your head. The light has a transformer in it that has multiple taps on it for 120, 240, and 277 volts. I don't have it fused yet as the inverter has an overload on it. Once I permanetly wire it in to a factory JD switch I will fuse everything neccessary. You should see the looks on the peoples faces driving by the house when I'm mowing late at night in the summer.

Must cast some wicked shadows! regarding the fuse, maybe some kind of GFI protection, though I'm not sure if that would work with out an earth ground, having a 120 volt circuit on a tractor is interesting.

I'm wondering about the charging system as well, I want to get an inverter and was thinking about 400-800 watt range, does the 400 clip to the battery or can you plug it in a cigarette lighter type outlet? I just installed an outlet but it's only on a 10 amp circuit.