Rigid Industries "E" Series LED Light Bar

[Clutchee]

WOW..... another cool factor Mike

 

[Theycallmenica]

Bright is not even close to the word for these lights.

 

[Ivan80]

I am not sure the 4" is enough for a driving light up front. One of the biggest issues we have with selling these are to get people to understand they do not need two lights up front. I will be putting a 20" on my own truck and report on how that works.

The small ones we are going to use for camping, backup lights.

Understood. Thanks for the clarification.

 

[cme4lyt]

Short answer - No

No, no good, quick, accurate way to do this. Somebody may be able to guessitmate by saying 'my lumen rating in this particular fixture gives me this amount of candela' thereby giving you a 'measure' of what light you can expect from what amount of lumen but it's very unsceintific.

I'm suprised the guys giving you the candela rating are also not expressing it in lumen since this is really the number, just like HP, that we all want to know ?

Rgds...

Understood.

So is there any practical way to determine how much a candela rating relates to a lumen rating?

In other words, what would 165,000 Candela equate to in a Lumen rating ... or vice versa. What would 18,500 Lumen equate to in a Candela rating?

That is the part I am trying to figure out.

 

[simps80]

Understood.

So is there any practical way to determine how much a candela rating relates to a lumen rating?


That is the part I am trying to figure out.

google sez....
candela (millicandela) to lumen conversion wizard

"To briefly explain the math the wizard does, it simply applies the conversion 1 candela = 1 lumen/steradian. To do this, it converts the beam angle you supply into a solid angle in units of steradians"

here's the answer:
thems thar lights r bright

 

[yamapro]

Treeroot, Where did you get that bad*** grill on your LC?

 

[pc4400]

That's pretty bright. But for THAT much money, you seriously should contact Rigid Ind and ask them if it has any "snubber" circuitry to combat voltage fluxuations. Otherwise you'd be upset if it broke after one year.

 

[nuclearlemon]

Treeroot, Where did you get that bad*** grill on your LC?

do a search and you can see how he built it.

 

[firetruck41]

Slee, I would love to see a slick way to mount the 4" on the rear of a 80... That might be a good seller, give a nice low draw reverse light/camping light!

 

[Filmpros]

Yes, 165,000 cd is the rating for the One (1) IPF HID Driving light. One (1) IPF HID Spot is 875,000.

I found this calculator, but the numbers do not seem right. It says that 165,000 cd is only 24.575 lumens. Unless the "." is a comma, this makes no sense at all.

candela (millicandela) to lumen conversion wizard


At the same time, according to the web link below, converting 18,500 Lumens to Candella I get approximately 1,450 Candela. (Lumens divided by 12.75 = Candela)

http://www.theledlight.com/lumens.html

I find it hard to believe that an LED Bar has almost 60 times the output of a single HID bulb or 30 times the output of two HID lamps. However, if I use simple logic and reverse the formula of the above to convert Candela to Lumens, I get 4,207,500 Lumens. (Candela x 12.75 = Lumens). I used the output of two (2) IPF HID's at 330,000 x 12.75 to get that figure. I can;t believe that is correct either.

So, all i know is that the HID's are more than 25 Lumens each and probably less than 4,207,500. The problem is...my stubborn and unrelenting nature leads me to believe there is a correct answer out there somewhere.

I actually know a lighting engineer that I can ask. I will find out what they have to say and report back.

No, no good, quick, accurate way to do this. Somebody may be able to guessitmate by saying 'my lumen rating in this particular fixture gives me this amount of candela' thereby giving you a 'measure' of what light you can expect from what amount of lumen but it's very unsceintific.

I'm suprised the guys giving you the candela rating are also not expressing it in lumen since this is really the number, just like HP, that we all want to know ?

Rgds...

 

[Filmpros]

OK..you can;t leave it like that...what is a "Snubber" ..?

That's pretty bright. But for THAT much money, you seriously should contact Rigid Ind and ask them if it has any "snubber" circuitry to combat voltage fluxuations. Otherwise you'd be upset if it broke after one year.

 

[Filmpros]

IPF is sold by ARB...while thier customer services is very good...their assistance with information on products outside of what is on the website and their willingness to help in these areas is pretty much non-existent.

No, no good, quick, accurate way to do this. Somebody may be able to guessitmate by saying 'my lumen rating in this particular fixture gives me this amount of candela' thereby giving you a 'measure' of what light you can expect from what amount of lumen but it's very unsceintific.

I'm suprised the guys giving you the candela rating are also not expressing it in lumen since this is really the number, just like HP, that we all want to know ?

Rgds...

 

[ardentyota]

That's pretty bright. But for THAT much money, you seriously should contact Rigid Ind and ask them if it has any "snubber" circuitry to combat voltage fluxuations. Otherwise you'd be upset if it broke after one year.

Well considering that they are fully dimmable, this should not be an issue at all. Voltage fluctuations should simply affect the output of the light, but nothing else. Also, considering the extremely low amp draw from these, the light itself shouldn't cause much fluctuation for the vehicle.

 

[sleeoffroad]

The lights operate from 9 to 32v and the warranty is lifetime.

 

[PhrogsPhorever]

An interesting comparison between the Rigid and the Vision-X LED light bars

UTVCHAT.COM LED LIGHT BAR SHOOT OUT

 

[pman]

So the guys at Rigid industries have done what Vision X did........only this time its brighter, cheaper, just as tough, and has the same warranty as Vision X.......technology is such a b****h, the second you think your on top, some one comes and beats you down.


Does anyone know if there is a place where you can see the beam pattern of the Rigid lights the way that Vision X shows them.......select any of the lights on this link and you'll see what i mean:

http://www.visionxoffroad.com/led/xmitter/

 

[ardentyota]

So the guys at Rigid industries have done what Vision X did........only this time its brighter, cheaper, just as tough, and has the same warranty as Vision X.......technology is such a b****h, the second you think your on top, some one comes and beats you down.

Actually, as I understand it, Rigid was the creator of the LED light bars. Someone who worked for Rigid left and took the technology to Vision X. Now Vision X sells a similar product for about 30% more. At least that's the story I've heard...

 

[RigidLED]

whos first?

Actually, as I understand it, Rigid was the creator of the LED light bars. Someone who worked for Rigid left and took the technology to Vision X. Now Vision X sells a similar product for about 30% more. At least that's the story I've heard...

ardentyota is close, no ex employee issues though, they just tried to copy the technology. Luckily we have patented optics, thus the brighter, more energy efficient product. Thanks for all of the support, and to Christo Slee for supplying our product for you here.
Taylor
RIGID

 

[ardentyota]

ardentyota is close, no ex employee issues though, they just tried to copy the technology. Luckily we have patented optics, thus the brighter, more energy efficient product. Thanks for all of the support, and to Christo Slee for supplying our product for you here.
Taylor
RIGID

Good to know. I'll stop telling people that the technology was stolen... Thanks for clearing that up!

 

[RigidLED]

no problem

no problem, a little drama keeps it interesting..