Xenon or Led work lights ?

[cessna]

I need some really bright lights on the back of my tractor to illuminate my firewood processor and surrounding area.Have any fitted LED or Xenon lights to your firewood processing tractor,if so, are they really good,and were they reasonably easy to connect up to old wiring?

[david wood]

not on tractor but two landrovers now. Both 48watt led lights. Very bright - very easy to fit and cheap as chips off ebay

[scbk]

I would say if you want to work under it don't get anything too bright or you will be dazzled and have bad shadows, and possibly a headache.

 

You really want lights as high as possible, pointing down.

Maybe mount a long pole on the firewood processor, and wiring via an Anderson plug or similar

[Treemover]

I find leds good for close work, but not great for casting light far. Xenon lights are not cheap, and I think you might need higher capacity relays for them. Leds are brilliant if you want cheap and easy to fit. I agree with poster that you may need 2-3 to avoid shadows. I have 3 on mag mounts (previously from mag trailer tail lights) and they are so versitile.

[wrsni]

After reading rave reviews on forums I fitted LED working lights to the rear of one of the tractors this years. Didn't like them at all, took them back for a refund and went back to halogen.

 

Oh, and they were classed as "flood" lights so should have been up to the job.

 

LED has great potential but obviously not all the stuff is quite there yet so tread carefully if that's what you go for.

[Stihllymok]

EH? whats not to like about em? all the lads round here have them plastered all over their machines. I never looked back since leds arrived.

yes you need the correct pattern and you get what you paid for but i'm intrigued.

[wrsni]

you get what you paid for

 

Well they weren't cheap. Taiwanese made (not Chinese!), 5yr warranty, certified IP65, and must admit the build quality of them was excellent, when I got them I had high hopes.

 

But the quality of light was poor even though they initially seemed bright enough. Whether ploughing, mowing, cultivating, whatever, you simply didn't have the same perception of what was happening in the work zone. Used them for over a week at a particularly busy time so they got well tested but was never properly content with them so changed back to halogen again.

 

No regrets whatsoever.

 

Some of the work lights here have lenses on them so diffuse that you can't even see the bulb, but they're terrific for night work. Whereas all the LED lamps I've seen are always clear, maybe therein somewhere lies the problem.

[LGP Eddie]

I have yet to find LED's better than Nordic lights, not the cheapest, but a great range and top quality.

No issues working at night on an excavator equipped with these.

 

 

Eddie.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

I have yet to find LED's better than Nordic lights, not the cheapest, but a great range and top quality.

No issues working at night on an excavator equipped with these.

 

 

Eddie.

 

Do you have a link that might be better than what a search engine throws up? Thx

[LGP Eddie]

These guys sell them

LED Work Lights [2]

 

Some I believe you can simply have spot or flood lenses and swap as you choose.

 

 

 

Eddie.