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Roof lights
Disco Matt:
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cos they can :) ;)
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I think they'd look bloody silly on my Yet!! :roll:
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Depends on the vehicle, I think they look good on a Disco providing the light bar is neatly made. The problem comes when they're not so much made as bashed together from assorted bits of steel with a welder...
Range Rover Blues:
What lets many down is they fit those cheapo RIng fog lights, well they aren't any use as fog lights and very little better on the roof. Gte some really secent lights up there and it;s a different story. If I ever get mine fitted I have JCB roof worklights to go up there.
TBM:
--- Quote from: Range Rover Blues on October 05, 2010, 01:33:04 ---What lets many down is they fit those cheapo RIng fog lights, well they aren't any use as fog lights and very little better on the roof. Gte some really secent lights up there and it;s a different story. If I ever get mine fitted I have JCB roof worklights to go up there.
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This is were the problem starts - if you fit Ring Fog Lights on your roof then you are contravening SCHEDULE 6 - fog lights can't be more than 1200mm above the ground. However, if you fit the Ring Driving Lights, then you're OK.
Sorry to sound so anal about this but I got so sick and fed up with people repeating the 'axle' myth that I spent some considerable time going through all the legislation!
The big issue with Roof Lights is in the set up. So many are set up badly, and use the wrong type of lamp that it gives the others a bad name. It's like the 'I've got a crap tattoo so all tattoos are crap' mentality. Set up and positioned properly, they can provide a decent and useful spread of light, far in excess of normal headlamps.
Disco Matt:
My day job is as a theatre techie, so I can safely say that the lights supplied with most bars are dire! They're usually intended to be worklights with something that isn't so much a beam pattern as light coming out of the glass bit.
What you actually need is something with a Fresnel lens to give a powerful beam and barn doors to keep the light off the bonnet. Unfortunately nobody seems to make such a thing.
TBM:
--- Quote from: Disco Matt on October 05, 2010, 14:15:50 ---What you actually need is something with a Fresnel lens to give a powerful beam and barn doors to keep the light off the bonnet. Unfortunately nobody seems to make such a thing.
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Most cheaper aftermarket driving lamps (even Ring) have a fresnel lens. The more expensive/modern driving lamps use Projector (polyellipsoidal) technology in the reflector to do the same job.
Barn doors would be a reasonable idea, someone earlier suggested a visor for underneath which would have the same effect.
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