Spot Lights

Yes and no.

The closer your eyes are to the actual narrow beam of light produced by the spot the better. Just like when looking at an animals eyes in the torch light, if next to the person with the torch/light you cant see the refelection but if your holding the torch the reflection cant be missed.

But, it all comes down to where abouts your lights are mounted and such.
But definitely the closer you are to seeing straight down a beam of light the easier it is on your eyes.

Even though I have the spot on the drivers side I think the difference is minimal. I'm with Roachie on this.

I have never liked the spread beam and spot system. I've tried it and never liked it. I prefer the two spots,in my opinion a much better light.

I should have added....I've tried the various combinations of lights and I thought my penultimate choice would have been the best possible....which was a pair of Lightforce XGTs converted to 55w HID. One had a clear (pencil beam) cover and the other had a semi spread beam cover.

I've since sold those and now have 4 Lightforce 170 Striker lights, all of which have been converted to HID 55w. These are mounted such that the centre 2 lights have pencil lenses and point straight ahead. The outer 2 have the semi-spread covers and each is angled ever-so-slightly off to it's own side of the road.

The result is that I get very good coverage of the whole road (including off the the far right where animals may not get picked up by a pencil beam light).

Roachie

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Sorry the 2nd photo (above) was abit stuffed-up.....hahaha

I agree with you Roachie and love your set up. As soon as i seen your photos i thought you would start an arguement about how you have them set up would block airflow etc etc blah blah blah ;)

Interestingly I googled what was originally asked only a couple weeks back just to see what was "said/recommended" to compare with my own setup. The result: do what ever suits you as it was 50/50 either way - a poopteenth in it as you say! - cheers....

The air-flow argument is an interesting one. I remember asking on PradoPoint a question about whether my Lightforce 240's would fit on a Smartbar that I was looking at buying and one member very strongly put forward that blocking so much air with these big lights is something he would never do with the appropriate arguments to back his case. Well I was putting them on one way or the other and we towed our camper for 25,000kms up around the North with some mid 40 degree days and the needle didn't budge from normal.

I think if things did get hot then there's a problem else where - it's not the lights, they've only brought the issue to attention.

Mark.

I suppose though if a company like Hella recommend the lights set up a certain way, im pretty sure they know what there talking about. After all, they are the world leader in automotive lighting.

Personally im a Lightforce man. Spotters all the way

Yep ... thats my favourite set up ...

Max visibility with minimum power drain.

Sadly down here in nanny state central where they cant balance the books .... they try to balance your bumper bar instead ... so auxilliarly lights have to be in pairs ......

So I just run two spots and some upgraded headlight wiring and bigger headlight bulbs.

NSW RTA ......

And no I wont be fitting HIDs ... I got a trailer load full of 30yrs worth of leftover roo struck driving lights ... that will last me well into the future.