light bar - broad or pencil beam lights???

Joined: 01 Apr 2008 Location: Warrnambool

im making up a roof light bar for my GQ using 4 Narva Targa lights

for night driving what would be the best combination of lights

4 pencil?
4 broads
2 of each, penicl & broad?

any help would be great

Joined: 11 Jan 2004 Location: Adelaide

I would go two of each. Two pencils aimed down the road, two spreads angled out.

Joined: 11 Dec 2004 Location: Queensland

Hi GQ4.2, I’ve run roof mounted lights on nearly all my vehicles for the last 25 years and the best set I’ve found is, if you run drivers on your bumper/bull bar, make these your long distance and then all four roof light are spread and pointing down one the roadway just ahead of your low beam’s maximum range.

The two outside roof lights are also set face slightly to either side rather than straight ahead.

This set up gives me good coverage out west with the long straights and excellent coverage for tight curved mountain road and off road diving.

The pics below will give you some idea.

BTW, with my new 4x4, I have not bothered with the long range lights and just put the roof lights on ( all 55w ) when I’m ding a trip.

Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Location: In them thar hills...

Quick Q Drivesafe,
Are those HID's or Halogens?

Joined: 11 Dec 2004 Location: Queensland

Hi Jeff80, that’s my old 03 RR and all 10 headlights and driving lights had Philips Crystal Vision H4 and H7 55w globes fitted.

Cheers

Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Location: brisbane

wow exellent setup there. so by 10 lights do u mean 4 roof, 4 stock headlights and 2 spotts?

also is that all of the one alternator due to them only being 55W? could u run the 4 roof and 2 spots @ 100W off the one alternator?

Joined: 11 Dec 2004 Location: Queensland

Hi gumtree, I have actually run six 130w globes in the driving lights, all off one alternator, for many years, on different vehicles, and never had a problem, other than burning the driving light reflectors in the Hella 181s.

Cheers

Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Location: brisbane

thanks 4 that info drivesafe.

i recently made the decicion to put phillips 80% more light bulbs in my sierra and found them to be reasonably good. i was tossing up between them and the crystal vision and went for the 80%. have u ever compared the 2 and is that how u came to use the crystal vision?

cheers