Windshield lights

[tonywjk]

Am looking to install lights on my windshield. Am in between Piaa 540's driving lights or KC Hilites Slimites. Can anyone offer any thoughts? looking to light up the road during bad/rainy weather. Have truck lite led headlights and during bad weather i see a lot of fade with them.

Any feedback would be appreciated, thanks!

 

[GCM 2]

Am looking to install lights on my windshield. Am in between Piaa 540's driving lights or KC Hilites Slimites. Can anyone offer any thoughts? looking to light up the road during bad/rainy weather. Have truck lite led headlights and during bad weather i see a lot of fade with them.

Any feedback would be appreciated, thanks!

Interesting :thinking: I run the GenII Trucklite headlights and also have PIAA 540's on my windshield A-pillars. When my Trucklites are on hi-beam, I can't even tell when I turn on the PIAA's, the Trucklites are so bright they wash out the 540's. Kind of pointless that I even have the windshield lights.

 

[tonywjk]

Interesting :thinking: I run the GenII Trucklite headlights and also have PIAA 540's on my windshield A-pillars. When my Trucklites are on hi-beam, I can't even tell when I turn on the PIAA's, the Trucklites are so bright they wash out the 540's. Kind of pointless that I even have the windshield lights.

Last winter we had a few snowy days, the snow clung to the truck lites and couldnt cut thru due to no heat being generated by them. Was looking at other solutions and felt a halogen would not collect snow

 

[GCM 2]

Last winter we had a few snowy days, the snow clung to the truck lites and couldnt cut thru due to no heat being generated by them. Was looking at other solutions and felt a halogen would not collect snow

Halogen will definitely got really hot......hot enough to boil water.

 

[tonywjk]

Halogen will definitely got really hot......hot enough to boil water.

Thanks-may go the Piaa route

 

[JeepJKpwr]

I have Rigid Industries and definitely would recommend them

 

[tonywjk]

Led lights or halogen, my LEDs attract snow

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[jkmadness]

You brought up a really good point (the lack of heat generated by led's),it is something to consider if you do drive in snowy conditions in the winter.:yup:

 

[NFRs2000NYC]

You brought up a really good point (the lack of heat generated by led's),it is something to consider if you do drive in snowy conditions in the winter.:yup:

High power LEDs (like the ones used by Rigid) put out a truckload of heat, which is why they have huge heatsinks. They get more than hot enough to melt snow.

 

[OverlanderJK]

High power LEDs (like the ones used by Rigid) put out a truckload of heat, which is why they have huge heatsinks. They get more than hot enough to melt snow.

He might be talking about the truck lites not melting the snow.

 

[NFRs2000NYC]

He might be talking about the truck lites not melting the snow.

Ah, gotcha. I saw the thread title, so I didn't think of headlights. Good point though. I have heard more than a few people complain about the snow buildup on TLs.

 

[tonywjk]

He might be talking about the truck lites not melting the snow.

Correct, my truck lite headlights dont melt snow, the snow just clings to them

 

[Skirmish]

It isn't really that LEDs put out a lot of heat, they are just very sensitive to it. Compared to an incandescent they are much more efficient in converting energy into light where the incandescent loses a higher percentage to heat. Without proper dispersing of the heat off the LED chip it will burn up quickly.