30,000 lumen offroad Baja light setup for $200!
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- Howdy! Just a quick video that covers the "budget Baja lights" currently sitting on the top of my 2001 Tacoma.
Instagram: @overlandunderbudget for more build info and pictures.
Here are the parts I used:
Round LED lights: www.amazon.com/Driving-Lights...
Mounting clamps for lights: www.etrailer.com/Accessories-...
Roof rack towers: www.amazon.com/Yakima-Tower-R...
Awesome setup! Really love the water proof connectors
So honestly your channel is one of my favorite! the content is great but the fact that you're involving your kid in it is the absolute BEST. that's what good parenting is. congrats! keep on doing this .
Thank you Sam! It means a lot.
That’s a very smart system , thank for sharing !!
Awesome lights bro, i dig the round lights on series like this..
Cool video! Great info!
Very impressed with your project and cost effective solutions, thanks for sharing. Could you possibly add the link to the electrical connectors you used for the lights. Thanks Again!
Moving over my q towers and round bars to my truck, but I’ll be using a light bar instead. I’ll try to see if the Yakima mounts can be used if not I’ve been looking for clamps for a while and I think those might work. Thanks!
Bro this is exactly what I'm looking for!!!
So dope. Thank you. great vid :)
Great set up! I had a question. How forward can the clamps be mounted on the truck? I have a full roof rack with a fairing and it basically covers 95% of the top. Can this setup tilt off the top of the windshield? Thanks!!
I have the same setup but amber and love it
Just a quick question
.. how do you plug them in? what's the plug that you used and how is it running from inside the car to on top of the Rack.
Great Job!
Kudos My Man 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Do those tower clamps fit on any car? Got a 2008 f250..seems like they would be on the way of the doors not closing
Also a link to those connectors you have on there?
Hey so how do you connect all those lights to turn on with only 1 switch? I want to do something similar but with different lights and I’m using the same Yakima rail.
How did you wire all the lights?
Did you run a dual connection harness or single?
Literally didn’t even show them at night
How are these lights holding up after two years?
How did you wire all of the lights? Could you share links for the things you used?
They are solar powered… work great on sunny days…for some reason I can’t them to work at night, odd!
Hi there, tell me mate how are your lamps still working today? It was worth it to purchase them. Greetings from Poland
How many lights does it come with? Just 2 .
Love the setup just wondering where I could get those towers for the bar !
Thanks!
I got two bars and towers on craigslist recently for just $20! I needed to order the correct metal clips and I found those on eBay. I think they were $25 ?
Overland Under Budget. just came across this video. can you link the type of clamps and bars?
You should do a follow up review on how they have held up and new discount code
Hey! just posted a new walk around and i cover this lighting setup!
@@OverlandUnderBudget you the man!
Dude you should’ve showed the lights on at night!!. Nice set up though 👍.
You did a nice job 👍 where did you get the bar and the stuff to secure them to the tru? Thank for shareing
Thanks! The bar and mounts are "yakima q towers with clip number 117" you can find them on craiglist and if you need clips and pads i got mine off ebay.
@@OverlandUnderBudget thank you very much
Thank you very much for your help I almost have my set up ready and my q clips are 109 once again thank
Well heck ! Turn 'em on and lets see what 30,000 lumens will light-up downrange !
How did you make this?
This just what I've been looking for my jeep because the KC option is like $1700
Are they not linkable by the tabs on each side 🤔
Hey bud what’s the coupon code for this.
Interested in how you have them wired.
wired in series!
Hi! Can you maybe post a quick how to video on wiring the lights? Can you also link the wiring products that you used?
Ill explain it to you, first you need to measure how far away the light, or whatever youre installing is from the battery. For roof lights, on my Jeep it was 8 feet of wire but i ran mine into the floor board and up the pillar inside the Jeep through the headline so i dont have ghetto wires on the outside of my vehicle like this guy does. Now, thats 8 feet into my headliner.. from there to the lights it was 1 1/2 feet to the closer light, all the way up to 3ft for the further away light on the drivers side. I wired 4 round halogen lights on my roof, 100 watts each.. Find yourself a good wire/length chart online ill provide the link to one below. But basically i ran all 4 lights in 2 pairs. So 400 watts, split into 2, so i needed wire thick enough to handle 200 watts. The longer you run your wire from the battery the thicker it needs to be due to resistance in the wire.. If you run a thin wire 8 feet into the light it will get hot, have low power going to it which causes heat due to resistance and will start a fire.
So anyway, for me 8 feet for 200 watts, 12GA wire, can handle 240watts at full power with minimal loss in voltage.. So i ran 12GA wire from the battery to the headliner, since i have two lights running on this wire, i then split the wires going from the 12ga into two 1 going to each light.. Since its 1 wire going to 1 light i can lower the thickness of the wire, and since its only running 1-3 feet long, that means 16ga wire can handle it. 16ga wire can handle 180watts up to 4 feet and 240 watts up to 2 feet long. So anyway i split the 12ga into 16ga and ran a wire into each light.
Now at the battery, you wire up a relay and a fuse together, remember the ground wires for everything need to be the same gauge as the power wire where ever you run them. Then you can run a small 18-22ga trigger wire from the relay to your switch in the vehicle all that will do is tell the relay to turn on, in effect it will bypass all the length of the wire running to the switch and instead send power directly from the batter to the lights.
This guy is not someone you want to take advice from, he bought "wire kits" on amazon, which are okay only if you know the power draw and distance you are running them too, since this guy has 6 powerfull lights like this, i can garauntee you he ran the wrong sized wire.. Looking at the wires in the video they all look to be 14-16ga at the most. Which means he is running these lights with major power loss and this causes heat to build up and that means fires.
Here is the chart for the wattag and wiring legnth to help you figure out how thick your wiring needs to be www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fpin%2F306878162082396026%2F&psig=AOvVaw1P1M68sPQmRvYGUdDejgcw&ust=1616996067551000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCMDToPSh0u8CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE
ua-cam.com/video/KSYAqQ4xyJI/v-deo.html here’s a link that helps break down Jacons concerns mentioned below
What fuse size did you use on the harness??? I bar the same sup up I just need to know the size of the fuse
dude you need to read up on wire size first.. If a light takes 100 watts, and you run a wire from the battery to the light and its say 6-8 feet in wire.. Than you will need 14GA wire to run it safely, if you have 6 of these lights like he does.. Thats 600 watts, to power that safely you will need 10 to 8GA wiring, if you split it into 2 pairs so 300w times 2, then you will 12-10GA wiring.. Minimum, also to get the fuse size you need to do simple math, take the watts and divide it by 12volts. so 100w divided by 12 is 8.3 amps, and to be safe you round it off to 10, so with 300 watts times 2 (6 100w lights) you do 300divided by 12. Thats 25 amps, so you would need a 30 amp fuse minimum to protect the circuit.
This idiot is most likely running a cheap amazon 14ga wire kit for all 6 lights, which will cause a fire eventually
@@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 I can say we have all been an idiot a time or two. However you make valid points. It’s not enough just to get the correct fuse for the amps but as you say it’s important to understand the watts and distance to determine the proper wire gauge. Very good point sir.
What type of mount is that?
Central Coast? Area looks super familiar!
Sure is!
Do more UA-cam content please!
thats the plan! Hoping to have more time soon!
Okay guys, im seeing a TON of comments on here asking what kind of wires and fuses and whatever you need.. Look this guy used wire harnesses he bought on amazon, i highely doubt he even added the wattage up the lights use, nor did he measure the distance from the battery. Going by his links, he has 6 51w lights.. Thats 306 watts, he has two wire connectors. That means 150w for each connector, judging the rough distance from his roof to his battery which is probably a good 6 feet, That means to run 150w he needs 14ga wire at the minimum, but two connectors doesnt mean its a pair of 14ga wires, it could be a 14GA wire split into two plugs.. In which case 14ga wiring is way underpowered for those lights, you will need 12GA wire. Which i HIGHELY doubt that wiring kit is
Ill explain it to you guys, first you need to measure how far away the light, or whatever youre installing is from the battery. For roof lights, on my Jeep it was 8 feet of wire but i ran mine into the floor board and up the pillar inside the Jeep through the headline so i dont have ghetto wires on the outside of my vehicle like this guy does. Now, thats 8 feet into my headliner.. from there to the lights it was 1 1/2 feet to the closer light, all the way up to 3ft for the further away light on the drivers side. I wired 4 round halogen lights on my roof, 100 watts each.. Find yourself a good wire/length chart online ill provide the link to one below. But basically i ran all 4 lights in 2 pairs. So 400 watts, split into 2, so i needed wire thick enough to handle 200 watts. The longer you run your wire from the battery the thicker it needs to be due to resistance in the wire.. If you run a thin wire 8 feet into the light it will get hot, have low power going to it which causes heat due to resistance and will start a fire and also cause them to be under powered and dimmer than they should be.
So anyway, for me 8 feet for 200 watts, 12GA wire, can handle 240watts at full power with minimal loss in voltage.. So i ran 12GA wire from the battery to the headliner, since i have two lights running on this wire, i then split the wires going from the 12ga into each light.. Since its 1 wire going to 1 100w light i can lower the thickness of the wire running off the 12ga wire, and since its only running 1-3 feet long, that means 16ga wire can handle it. 16ga wire can handle 180watts up to 4 feet and 240 watts up to 2 feet long. So anyway i split the 12ga into 16ga and ran a wire into each light.
Now at the battery, you wire up a relay and a fuse together, remember the ground wires for everything need to be the same gauge as the power wire where ever you run them. Then you can run a small 18-22ga trigger wire from the relay to your switch in the vehicle all that will do is tell the relay to turn on, in effect it will bypass all the length of the wire running to the switch and instead send power directly from the batter to the lights.
This guy is not someone you want to take advice from, he bought "wire kits" on amazon, which are okay only if you know the power draw and distance you are running them too
www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fpin%2F306878162082396026%2F&psig=AOvVaw1P1M68sPQmRvYGUdDejgcw&ust=1616996067551000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCMDToPSh0u8CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE
Thanks for taking the time to put this information down, hopefully people read it and wire up safely.
@@southcoastvanlife7760 I did!.
So I was hoping you’d share the discount code
Im not sure if its still active, i paid full price for the lights but you can try "20%formyfriend"
Good looking out bud. I picked up 6 total lights for under $75
What a steal.
Whats the discount code lol
20%formyfriend
@@OverlandUnderBudget Not working anymore, is there an updated code? Nice lights.
@@OverlandUnderBudget Yeah any update on a code?
A review should show them at night. Otherwise they are just decorative.
This doesn't seem like the first video on the channel
40$ nilight is brighter
I’m guessing it probably is! This is about 3 years old. Waiting to upgrade to something of similar look, but more focused beams
Sorry, you came up a wee bit short to call this useful. I think most morons could clamp a light to a bar and a bar to a rooftop. Where is the power source coming from?
Haha most morons including myself can guess where the power is coming from 😂
Haha just messing with you, power is connected to a blue sea fuse block, and runs through a 40amp wiring harness with relay. The harness is available on amazon for about $12. I’m using a in cab rocker switch to switch them.
@@OverlandUnderBudget LOL thanks. Just to clarify, where does the wire come through the skin of the vehicle.
I WANT ONE OR MAYBE I SHOULD SAY 5 FOR MY ESCAPE.