As promised, here are output shots of the stock halogen (9145 Philips bulb) fog lights and then the DOT Duallys.


Stock fogs and HIDs:




Stock fogs only:




DOT Duallys and stock HIDs:




DOT Duallys only:




So the two shots were taken back to back nights, and it looks like I was about 20' further back tonight with the Duallys. I'm amazed at how wide the Duallys throw light...claimed to be a 45 degree beam. I clocked them outward quite a bit so that the overlap in front of the truck was minimal. The distribution is great and bright! The cutoff is well defined and I have them aimed to stay well below the HIDs. The light up the ditches really well, much better than I was expecting actually. Sadly, my HIDs now look more yellow than white. Gonna be a while til I correct that though, as I just sold my retrofit for financial reasons.

Enjoy!

 

I put these on my work truck and love them. Really wide and won't blind oncoming traffic.

 

Mine are arriving next week for my jeep and will be aimed to supplement halogen heads vs just being fogs, I can post a comparison of the stuck truck lights and duallys side by side.

 

I can imagine that the Duallys will wash out most of your halogen output. With the OEM HIDs the Dually's have completely taken out that sharp curved cutoff on the outsides of the light distribution. The Duallys actually mimic a similar spread as compared to the retrofit I just sold, but yet they are still lower and wider than the retrofit.

 

I have retrofitted OEM HID's on my truck utilizing a 35w setup (for the moment), and the rigids keep pace with them pretty well. I was not expecting these to be this good, at all....

I'm replacing the hyper spots on my hood with another set of these bad boys.

 

Damn they are bright, looks good!!

 

OP, can you do the same pictures with your truck facing a wall about 20' back?
I'm curious what the actual pattern looks like.

 

Yeah let me see what I can do. The pattern is rather rectangular. I've gotta find a good wall that doesn't have a parking space curb or something on the ground in front of it.

 

Very nice!

 

What does the color output look like compared to the stock HID's? That is one thing that pisses me off is that the HID's are a clearish-blue tint while the stock fogs are a yellowish-white tint.

 

The stock HIDs now look a bit yellow (above the cutoff) as compared to the Duallys. The Duallys are pure white, almost bluish. I'm wondering if some CBIs in the D3S bulb size would close the color gap some. That's gonna have to wait though...purse strings pulled tight.

 

Those Rigid's might be more on par with the Philips Xtreme Vision D3S upgrade. (driver side needs adjustment)

 

The rigids put out 5000k, but they appear closer to 6, as LED's don't burn off as much color as HID's.

The pattern has 2 very wide and thin rectangular hot spots, one just above the other, due to the two horizontal rows of LED's. So, you'll get a thin line, almost unnoticeable, of darkness in the middle of the pattern.

 

I have 6K HID in my work truck and the Rigid DOT fog are more blue that the HID's are. I would they are closer to 6500-7000k. I still like them. It's a blizzard here today and it cuts through the snow with almost no glare. Well worth the money.

 

I'd be willing to bet that some yellow lens covers get the output color to the perfect temp for snow and heavy dust.

 

Blue for snow.

 

^^^ Not a bad idea. Snap 'em on for craptastic weather. Easily stored in the console. Hmmmm damnit forums are expensive.

 

Lol, they're 10 bucks per cover... We're not that expensive

 

I meant color as in looking at the truck from the front side of it.

This is what I mean that I hate on the 2013 and 2014 with HID's with the stock fogs looking yellow.

(photo thanks to AKmedic)

 

I meant color as in looking at the truck from the front side of it.

This is what I mean that I hate on the 2013 and 2014 with HID's with the stock fogs looking yellow.

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(photo thanks to AKmedic)

A caveat or two to this photo: the fogs had PIAA Extreme Whites in them...and the LEDs have ballasts and way outshine the distance on the PIAAs. I tried to only use them when it was just me on the road for the same reasons we all hate aftermarket HIDs in the factory halogen housings. I now have a pair of JW Speaker 6146 fogs on order.

 

The output on the Putco's is a joke. Had them for 3 weeks about this time last year. Not worth the money...almost a purely cosmetic "mod".

 

*yellow.

 

And you can't drive with blue facing forward, not dot legal.

 

Ya I was going to say my white LED's make the snow almost too bright. As Rob said yellow is better for snow as you get less glare coming back.

 

I know what you are saying though noog on the blue tho, it's better than white. I have blue lenses for snowmobiling and they are a good lense for cutting light in some conditions, but yellow cuts the fog better and shows better definition in the snow itself.

 

For off road lights a blue filter is best for snow. I used to use a pair of lightforce lights and I played around with the yellow and blue filters and personally preferred the blue filter.

 

Interesting, like how blue do you guys mean? Around 6000k? 8000k? Or higher? I have had 6000k and hated it.

Mind you it may be how the light is on the snow. I don't mind my diffused rigid on the snow as it doesn't have a bright spot. But my 6000k HID's I had I didn't like.

 

They're filters/covers for the light. I believe the lightforce HIDs themselves are 5000k. They recommend their blue filters for snow. Yellow for dust/fog. I run the crystal filters normally as I don't drive my Jeep in the winter, those are around the same as my 6000k HIDs, snow blue a bit bluer.

 

That was a while ago but if I had to guess I would say 7000K ish on the Lightforce lights. This morning driving to work in this blizzard my Rigid DOT's cut through the snow will almost zero glare. The HID's on my work truck are 6000K and the fogs make them look a little yellow.

 

They aren't "blue" as in what might get you a ticket.

 

i'm going to have to try that out. I'll put a slight blue tint over my fogs and see what it looks like.

 

I have some blue rigid covers laying around somewhere.....

 

Of course you do. Bet you don't have snow laying around somewhere... Lol

 

Awesome thanks. Nice to see there is zero scatter.