Offroad lights on roof racks.

[LWM]

I saw my old rack in a photo above, these are what I was running and they are currently in the garage waiting to see what I come up with next:



They are the 6" KC HiKights

[Matt]

Looking good Neil!

I'm planning on mounting mine lower in front of the rack.

[NeilSmith]

Ive thought of moving mine down lower. They get a lot of tree branches up that high. I would have to fab some mounting bracketry to do it.

[cico7]

Lights add extra weight to the rack. I prefer the bar. I made mine from an extra cross bar. I included some pics of others for
reference/ideas.











Light bars.......

[cico7]

Saturn:




Vaporized Saturn:

[Matt]

Lol I love the vaporized Saturn!

I'm going to be using light tabs on whichever roof rack I get. Not concerned about weight, its a bit cleaner IMO and I don't have any crossbars anyway. I'm getting a rack that doesn't utilize OEM crossbars for carrying capacity either.

[carlosshane1477]

Saturn:



Saturn repair
Vaporized Saturn:

looking good. But do you have a clearer picture of this one. kinda blurry though. But I love the saturn

[cico7]

I have 4 sets of lights. 1st shorted and the second one just did't like me I guess.

What you need are the large relays (solenoids) like we use in cop car builds. Here's an example:
http://www.oznium.com/relay80
The material is bakelite and doesn't melt.

Another reason for massive relays beyond what you think are needed is high wattage bulbs have a huge start up current. Otherwise known as "cold filament surge." Your 100 watt lights may draw about 8 amps ..... Running a 100 watt light with the usual Bosch relay is the contacts will weld themselves due to the starting surge.

I have 4 150 watt lights on top.They are split into 2 sets.
Adondo, Thanks for link on the heavier relay...I will look into this.