| Author | Message | ||
     Matt (Doc175) Member Username: Doc175 Post Number: 234 Registered: 11-2002 |
I have 5 Hella 4000s. On the front bumper I have 2 Euro beams and a fog light. On the roof rack I just mounted 2 cornering lights. Before I start playing musical lights to find the pattern I like best, I was looking for ideas and thoughts on keeping what I have versus switching the cornering and the Euros. I do a lot of night driving on 2-lane back roads at highway speeds. | ||
| Dean Brown (Deanbrown3d) Senior Member Username: Deanbrown3d Post Number: 1289 Registered: 02-2002 |
The cornerings will shine more on your hood, so I'd keep them on the front and put the euros on the roof. | ||
| Craig Kobayashi (Koby) Dweb Lounge Member Username: Koby Post Number: 859 Registered: 02-2002 |
What kind of roof rack do you have? Where on the rack do you plan to mount the lights? (medially or laterally?) | ||
| Matt (Doc175) Member Username: Doc175 Post Number: 235 Registered: 11-2002 |
It is an adventure roof rack. I was thinking laterally because the 3 on the bumper are in the center (SG) | ||
| Craig Kobayashi (Koby) Dweb Lounge Member Username: Koby Post Number: 860 Registered: 02-2002 |
I ask because I have cornerings on my outer corners as well, with Euros in the middle of my adventure rack. I really like the cornering beams at the widest portion of the truck because the beam pattern is really wide. It doesn't make sense to me to put the wide-beamed lights at the narrowest portion of the truck, where they cannot illuminate the sides of the truck. With the cornering lights on the roof rack, the light emitted by the cornering beams actually reaches the sides of the truck, where they would otherwise be blocked and rendered useless by the front fenders of the truck if mounted on the bumper. The euro beams focus the beam of light forward, for the most part. They are not as focused as pencil beams, but they are pretty uni-directional. Therefore it only makes sense to put them at the narrowest portion of the truck, since you probably are not going to utilize these lights to light up the trail on either side of your truck. That being said I'd do the cornerings on the lateral mounts on the rack and the Euros on the medial mounts of the roof rack. Then I'd buy one more more Fog lamp and mount it on the bumper. If you don't want to do that, then I say do the cornerings up on the rack and the Euros on the bumper. |
