On the way over to WA the other Week I finally got sick of the half-arsed driving lights on the FJR. It was never really set up for big days but it has evolved in that direction. Coincidentally while over there I came arcoss a new light from Stedi - the Type-X Evo 4".
(Woah, BIG image!!)
Long story made short, they accompanied me on the return trip.
At under $400 they are not the cheapest but a long way from the worst. If they were so overpackaged like high end camera equipment, they'd be under $350!
Fabbed up a couple of simple mounts hung off the mirrors and they plugged straight into my existing wiring. (complete with Nullarbor bugs still)
Spread and distance are both pretty good. This parking area is maybe 60m long.
Overall I'm pretty impressed. I was generally comfortable sitting at around 100-105 with them, although it was only a couple of nights after full moon which helps. While certainly not the greatest light around, for the money and more importantly the electrons spent they are an new excellent option. The Gen 1 feejar is somewhat electron limited so the fact these only draw around 54W is a huge bonus. With these, a gps, phone charger and SPOT plugged in I'm sitting on about 13.3V compared to about 13.0/12.9V when I was running the Rigid driving pattern. So that's a big win!
One fly in the ointment I have discovered since getting home is that the bolts in the side attaching the brackets are somehow dodgey. I found they were very tight when trying to loosen them for adjustment and in trying to undo them to see what was going on the threads binded and wouldn't move. I stripped the threads off one using ALL the ugga duggas and then stripped the allen heads out of two others! And that was even after I was being very careful on the second light after trouble with the first... not cool. It is almost like the threads of the bolt and the nut don't quite match.
(Woah, BIG image!!)
Long story made short, they accompanied me on the return trip.
At under $400 they are not the cheapest but a long way from the worst. If they were so overpackaged like high end camera equipment, they'd be under $350!
Fabbed up a couple of simple mounts hung off the mirrors and they plugged straight into my existing wiring. (complete with Nullarbor bugs still)
Spread and distance are both pretty good. This parking area is maybe 60m long.
Overall I'm pretty impressed. I was generally comfortable sitting at around 100-105 with them, although it was only a couple of nights after full moon which helps. While certainly not the greatest light around, for the money and more importantly the electrons spent they are an new excellent option. The Gen 1 feejar is somewhat electron limited so the fact these only draw around 54W is a huge bonus. With these, a gps, phone charger and SPOT plugged in I'm sitting on about 13.3V compared to about 13.0/12.9V when I was running the Rigid driving pattern. So that's a big win!
One fly in the ointment I have discovered since getting home is that the bolts in the side attaching the brackets are somehow dodgey. I found they were very tight when trying to loosen them for adjustment and in trying to undo them to see what was going on the threads binded and wouldn't move. I stripped the threads off one using ALL the ugga duggas and then stripped the allen heads out of two others! And that was even after I was being very careful on the second light after trouble with the first... not cool. It is almost like the threads of the bolt and the nut don't quite match.
