LED light bar - Lense questions (7 Viewers)

[74fj40ca]

I have a 30" LED light bar, from Arsenal LED on pirate4x4, and I think he is on here as well. It's a common Chinese kind, looks like most of the others out there.

Anyways, I have a flood pattern now, but would like to go with a combo pattern.

Does anyone know where you can get the lenses for the LED light bars?

 

[speedrye]

If the light bar can be disassembled, you can open it up, take out the lens, measure it and have some new ones made up in most plastics shops for cheap. I had some replacement ones made for my Rigid Dually LEDs and it cost me $3 to make 10 polycarbonate lenses. Quite cheap. I assume your flood pattern is just a diffused lens, so a clear lens should solve your problem.

If you can't open the bar, you're probably SOL.

 

[Southeast Overland]

You probably need a different reflector, not a different lens. Most less expensive Chinese light bars use a different reflector (behind the LED) to specify the flood vs spot pattern, where as some pods will have a diffused lens to make a spot pattern turn to flood.

 

[74fj40ca]

Thanks, I was WAY off on who I thought I got it from. This is the one I have

http://www.arsenal-led.com/30-arsenal-led-light-bar/

 

[Tapage]

yup you need to change your reflector .. dunno if that's possible in yours ?

 

[74fj40ca]

That's what I am thinking, I just need to find a place where I can buy the reflector. I know the entire front lens can be removed, along with the reflectors.

 

[speedrye]

I doubt you'll be able to. I can't even get them for my Rigids. The only lights I know of with changeable optics are Baja Designs and Heretic Studios. I'm sure there are others, but I haven't seen any.

Edit: Nevermind, you might be right. In the link you posted, it says they're serviceable, so you just have to find where to get them. I'd guess the manufacturer.

 

[74fj40ca]

Yea, I kinda figured I would have to find them from there, just hoping to get a lead on a better place. I'd hate to havw to sell this light and buy a new one.

 

[speedrye]

The same light bar is sold by a lot of companies under different names, so maybe you could find a smaller, cheap spot beam bar somewhere and change out some of the reflectors. Maybe get a 12" or 20" bar, swap your center reflectors to spot and end up with a combination bar. Swap the flood reflectors back to the smaller bar and sell the bar as a flood. Probably easier than finding the original manufacturer and getting parts. Probably cheaper in the end as well.

 

[74fj40ca]

Thats a good point, I'm going to try and look around and see what I can find for reflectors. I could always sell the 30" and go with a 40" combo... but who knows!

 

[speedrye]

Thats a good point, I'm going to try and look around and see what I can find for reflectors. I could always sell the 30" and go with a 40" combo... but who knows!

There's no such thing as too much light, but that's dangerous logic right there. Trust me, I know, it's expensive logic sometimes too. Why settle for a 60" TV? Why settle for 35" tires? Why settle for 40,000 lumens on the front of your truck?

 

[74fj40ca]

There's no such thing as too much light, but that's dangerous logic right there. Trust me, I know, it's expensive logic sometimes too. Why settle for a 60" TV? Why settle for 35" tires? Why settle for 40,000 lumens on the front of your truck?

I try to explain that very thing to my wife...

 

[TLC76]

I just bought a cheap 50" bar off ebay, combo beam (8 degree / 90 degree), it's the epistar LEDS (96 3 watt). Thing put out a RIDICULOUS amount of light, across from my house is a straight maybe 1/8 mile section of wide road, lights the entire thing up like high noon. Advertised 28,800 lumens.