Explorer I
In this video, I rip out my LED floodlights, that I once used to replace my fog lights, and reinstall my factory fog lights. Let me know what you think. Also, do you run fog lights or floodlights and why?
Fog Lights Vs Flood Lights
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Advocate III
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- Michael
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- Rose
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I run Fog, Spot, and flood...
Fog lights are great for putting light on the road during foggy, raining, and snowy conditions, but on a clear night they don’t put enough light on the ground for me... This is their fault by design, they are designed to refract light in and verse weather. Mount fog lights down as low as possible.
Spot lights are mounted high and to the center to see further than your stock headlights on the trail. On a clear night seeing those obstacles in advance is nice. Spotlights however don’t work very well in low visibility situations, as they direct light vs refract light like fog lights.
Flood Lights are a compromise between the Fog Light and the Spot Light. They scatter the light like a fog light, but not quite as much. They are designed to scatter intense light in all directions to help see a broader path... can be mounted either high or low, but angle out at 45 degrees to scatter light intersecting with the stock headlights.
Fog lights are great for putting light on the road during foggy, raining, and snowy conditions, but on a clear night they don’t put enough light on the ground for me... This is their fault by design, they are designed to refract light in and verse weather. Mount fog lights down as low as possible.
Spot lights are mounted high and to the center to see further than your stock headlights on the trail. On a clear night seeing those obstacles in advance is nice. Spotlights however don’t work very well in low visibility situations, as they direct light vs refract light like fog lights.
Flood Lights are a compromise between the Fog Light and the Spot Light. They scatter the light like a fog light, but not quite as much. They are designed to scatter intense light in all directions to help see a broader path... can be mounted either high or low, but angle out at 45 degrees to scatter light intersecting with the stock headlights.
Explorer I
So I generally agree with what you have going on. My problem was I had removed the fog lights for flood and that was a bad decision.
Now I run fogs down low, Driving beam about the same height as my headlights, spots up high on the roof. It seems to work great for me because I have so many options.
The only thing about the floodlights I had was that they through light everywhere. They didn't have any cut off the beam at all. So they were terrible in anything on road, and technically not street legal. That said, crawling with floods on and no headlights in a large group are nice because people are not blinded!
Now I run fogs down low, Driving beam about the same height as my headlights, spots up high on the roof. It seems to work great for me because I have so many options.
The only thing about the floodlights I had was that they through light everywhere. They didn't have any cut off the beam at all. So they were terrible in anything on road, and technically not street legal. That said, crawling with floods on and no headlights in a large group are nice because people are not blinded!
Advocate III
- 5,584
- First Name
- Michael
- Last Name
- Rose
- Member #
20990
- Ham/GMRS Callsign
- W7FSB
- Service Branch
- US ARMY Retired
Only the Fog lights are DOT street legal... all others are off highway use only. Saw a guy last night get pulled over for his flood lights on.
Explorer I
Some states you can run DOT legal driving lights with your headlights as long as they are mounted below the hood. However, I despise when oncoming traffic drives with floodlights on. My pupils give them angry looks.
