$90 vs $2000 Off-Road Lights

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**The Brightness of Lights**

"Okay, that's pretty bright," said one of the friends as they tested out a new set of lights.

"That's pretty bright," agreed another friend. "It's like daylight out there."

"This light is more of a flood," observed a third friend. "More of a flood light."

"It's not just a light, it's a flood light," said one of the friends with a chuckle.

"What does it look like coming on?" asked a curious friend. "I wanna see how scary you look."

"I feel pretty good for 80 bucks, I don't think you'd be any happier than that," said another friend.

As they continued to test out different lights, one of the friends exclaimed, "This is scary, dude!" Another friend chimed in, "Oh my God!"

The group then decided to compare their lights with a more expensive setup from KC Lights. The results were striking - the KC Lights setup produced a much brighter and more focused beam.

"Damn, that's a spread," said one of the friends as they gazed at the light's coverage area.

"So we've got maybe more of throw out like the electrical boxes out there," observed another friend.

"It looks more focused," said a third friend. "Yeah, our beam pattern I think is supposed to be a bit narrower and that's even what it says."

The group then tested out the high truck light setting, which produced an impressive 320 lux of light. This was compared to the 150 lux of the low truck light setting.

"It's over double," exclaimed one of the friends. "It's like using little LED pods that we have on top of these cameras versus using full studio lights."

The group then decided to take their lights on a trip to see how usable they were in different situations.

As they continued to test out the lights, one of the friends exclaimed, "Damn, I mean it is like night and day!"

"What do you think?" asked another friend. "Is more expensive better?"

"Absolutely," replied Nolan. "More expensive means better."

The group then compared their lights with a $1,500 setup from KC Lights, which produced an impressive light beam.

"This is one of those spots where if I'm honest, this is it, man," said one of the friends.

"So, does more expensive mean more better?" asked another friend.

"Why are you thinking so hard?" replied Nolan. "What's there to think about?"

The group then concluded that while their LED set up was less expensive at $90, the KC Lights setup produced a much brighter and more focused beam.

"Your LED set up is 10 times cheaper," said one of the friends. "But I think our lights look cooler."

"Yeah, looks count for a lot in this case," agreed another friend.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- Oh.(uplifting music)- $90 light kitversus $2,000 light kit.- Does more expensive mean more better?- Let's find out.(upbeat theme music)(mechanical whirring and clinking)- Thank you to eBayMotorsfor sponsoring today's video.At the start of the season,I told you how eBayMotors has parts and carsto fit any budget, which is great.However, at the time,I didn't realize howdang low our budget was.At the time of this recording,HiLow has currentlyspent a total of $19,495,that's almost 20 grand.Wanna know how much we've been allowedto spend so far?$4,000.(inhales)(exhaling and farting)So whether you've got a hefty,some would say greedy high budget,or a more manageable,humble, salt of the earth,low budget, like me,eBay Motors has everythingyou're looking for,and best of all, youknow you can rely on thembecause of all the addedprotection eBay Motors provides.From their vehicle production program,to their money back guarantee,there's no better placeto start pricing out yourown high or low truck.Head on over to eBayMotors, download the app,or just click the linkin the description below.Now, I gotta get back to work.(inhales and exhales)Doing great, Aaron, I'llbe there in a few minutes,just need a little break.(gentle music)We bought two nearlyidentical Toyota Tacomas,and we've been modifyingthem to be fun daily driversthat you can take literally anywhere...- Except for the ocean.One Taco gets expensive partsand the other one gets cheap parts.- Then we test themand see which componentsare worth spending yourhard earned cash on.- It is a fact that everyone'sslimy little eyeballsneed light in order to see theroad so you don't hit things- That's right, James, and thesun is not always an option,because of an extremely scarything, called nighttime.- Yeah, that's right, Nolan,nighttime is extremely scary,so, we're gonna fight the night.High truck is getting thisKC HiLiTES Pro6 Gravity LED Light Barand a pair of KC Daylightersfor a combined costof 2000 buckerenos.You recognize that logo,that's Americana baby.- It's like Marty McFly--- Yeah, dude.- What is this, Alaska?Sun never goes down on a high truck.- Low truck on the other hand,is getting this $90 light bulb,that's literally 20 timescheaper than high truck.We got some little lights, some wiring,can we get a katana sound effect, editor?(whistling sound)- So, that's ugly.- It's kinda spiky looking.(James laughing)- Yeah.- I think they're gonna performabout the same, I really do.There's a reason big truckguys all over the countryhave put cheap light bars on their rigs,That's 'cause these thingsare bright as (beep).- There's only one way to find out,let's put them on our trucks,and go drive like big boysat night and not get scared.- I brought my binky.(James chuckling)(upbeat music)- So we spent 2000 bucks on lightsbut we decided we didn'tjust wanna put themdirectly on the roofof the truck, you know,there's racks for that.So we spent another 750 bucks on this rackto put the lights on.We like racks, you know?- The point of this whole camping tripis to hunt down the manwho killed my fatherand bring him to justice.So I think that thisheavy-duty roof rack by Prinsuwill be a perfect placeto stow our prisoner.- Is that your roof rack?God damn, gee, that things(beep) mean looking.- That's cool.All right, Aaron, this is what we got,we got a 42 inch light barwith some separate podsfor our mounting pleasure.This is a combination spot and flood.You see, it's got thefloods on the outsideand the spot in the middle,for that focus type beam.- Usually when you havelike combination stuff,you'll have like a separate wire,or three wires to do a separate function.So maybe it got a little bit brighteror turned one off when the other was on,it's not the case, it lookslike you got on and off.So if all of them werecoming on with the on switch,all of them were goingoff with the off switch.- Ready?- I'm ready.- Oh.- Oh, yeah- How about this?(screaming)- Oh, dang.- Is that pod attached?- Yes it is.- That is, ah, (beep),that's brighter than this.(Zack grunting)- Dude, that roof rack is gonna be sick.- Don't touch it.- I'm not moving it.- I'm not gonna touch it.- Don't touch it, Felipe.So we've got to boltthis right onto our roof,which means once we put iton, there's no turning back,you're saddling your truck with this rack.(drill whirring)- All right, now that we actually haveour roof rack installed, wecan finally start focusingon the actual point of this episode,putting some lights on this truck.- One thing that we runinto time and time again,with more expensiveparts, is adjustability.Low team has a light barthat they bought from Spencer's Gifts.It's the shape that itis, it goes where it goes,it's gonna point straight, hopefully.But we have the option to run our lightsin either straight,which means every lightgoes in the same direction,semi radius, which means themiddle lights go straightand the outside lights pointtowards the sides of the road,and then full radius, whichis essentially a rainbow,every light has a littlebit of degree to it.Again, it's probably gonna takea little bit more time to set up,but in the long run, we'regonna have exactly what we needwhen we need it, and tome, that's worth the money.- Well, that'll definitely work.- Dude, that looks so cool.- We've got the newextended piece right herefor our light bar.Instead of drilling a bunch of holes,I'm gonna try to findevery crease that I canup to that pointso that I don't have to snakethis through anywhere sharp.- It brings me no joy doing this,I'm hurting just as much as you are.(drill whirring)It's fine.I always knew it was gonnaclose, never a doubt in my mind,freaking solid ass dude.There it is, it's a realBaja truck right there.- We got all the wiring routed,hooked up to the battery, ready to go,it should be ready to test.Ready to rock?- Go ahead.(uplifting music)- Oh, yeah.- Yeah.- Dude, that's (beep) Bonsai.That's classy right there.- All right, our lights are on, they work,they're brightest hell.Aaron, they're prettyeasy to install, huh?- Yeah, that was cheese,like compared to what theseguys have to go through?- Yeah.(car horn honks)Wow.- Scale this from one to10, this is like a three.- Yeah, it was--- Very easy.- So this is Is about asmuch downward tilt as we havejust because of the fairing,but I think they look badass.This thing finally looks like a toy truckand that was the dream all along.(drill whirring)- Still have to wire themwhich is gonna be aboutjust as much work as we've done thus far.And then I've still got a bunchof other lights to install.It looks like low team's already done.You know, being on abudget doesn't seem so badall of a sudden.Luckily some of our past workis paying off big time right now.The switch panel that we installedwith the air compressor and the lockers,having this switch box installedgives me a really easy optionfor wiring up these lights.I can just cut off most ofthe wiring of these lightsand wire them straight into this box,and then they'll work from my switch panelthat's already installed.All that time spent,it's really paying off.♪ Get trucked up and call your mum ♪♪ Get trucked up and call your mom ♪♪ And tell your mom to get trucked ♪♪ And then put grandmaon the phone and say ♪♪ Hey or lady, get trucked ♪- Hell yeah, dude.Good song.- Let's talk about some specs.The light bar on high truck is ratedat a brightness of 16,100 lumens,sounds pretty bright, right?Well, this guy right hereis rated at 57,600 lumens,not bad for $80.However, a high lumens ratingdoes not a good light bar make.Lumens are just measuredoff of the bulbs themselves,the little LED cells thatyou can see in our light bar.Lumens does not taking into accountthe housing that the lights are in,so that would be each ofthese individual mirrorkind of cones that they're living in.So, just because it has asuper high number does not meanthat this light bar isnecessarily gonna be brighterthan high car.So, a better measure of brightnessis a measurement called lux,which measures brightness ata distance in a square meter.There is some debate as towhich metric is the bestfor measuring brightness,but I think for our purposes,it sounds like lux isprobably the best onebecause we wanna be ableto throw a lot of lighta very far distance so wecan see what's in front of usout on the trail.- Roof lights.(imitates explosion)Front lights, 'ey, 'ey.Oh.(ethereal music)(laughing)- You look like Bo Burnham.- Cool, dude.- Great work.- Good call, dude, good call.(upbeat music)- We're out here in themiddle of the desert,it is scary dark.Before we get out on the trail,we just wanna do a quick side by sideso we parked both trucksright next to each other.We're setting up some conesat different distances,we're gonna get some lightreadings at each of the cones.- We wanna see how the lightactually floods out of these lightsand how it hits the ground,what kind of beam patterns we have.So what we've got here with the KC Lightsis kind of a multi-pattern.They kind of split betweena long throw spotlightand more of a floodlight,so they should do a really good jobof throwing light out far,but also lighting up everythingkind of in our near vicinity.Now these two at thefront are just spotlights,so these are just tothrow light super far,super down low under the dust,and keep the trail lit up for us.- All right, are we ready?- The moment you've beenwaiting for your entire life.- All right, three, two, one.- Okay, that's pretty bright.- That's pretty bright.- Pretty bright,its like daylight out there.- Pretty damn good, dude.- It's more of a flood.- It's more of a flood light.What's it look like coming on?I wanna see how scary you look.(Nolan laughs)(laughing)- Oh, my God.Oh, my God.(Nolan laughing)I would be so scared.- I feel pretty good, dude, for 80 bucks?- It's pretty good, cannot deny.- It might not be as good looking,but puts out a lot of light.- That's a slamming deal, for 80 bucks,I don't think you'd beany happier than that.Now, let's see how itcompares to high team.- Yeah.- These lights better be bright.Let's do it.- Oh.- Damn.- Dude, that's a spread.- So we've gotmaybe more of throw outlike the electrical boxes out there.- Yeah.- I think are better lit up.- It looks more focused.- Yeah, our beam pattern I thinkis supposed to be a bit narrower,and that's even what itsays, like from KC Lights.- I was expecting a littlebit more, to be honest.- That $1,500 price tagon that top light bar,you're really payingfor that look, I think,which I will say, really nice look.KC Lights, that's like,that's iconic, you know?- All right, so this is 40feet and low trucks light,light reading in terms of lux.150 lux from here.All right, flip over to high truck.Nice.320.- 320.- That's over double.- ] It's obvious,it's a lot better,it's a lot better, no hard (indistinct)- It's like using little LED podsthat we have on top of these camerasversus using full studio lights.- So as we've seen,the light that's comingout of high truck's set upis far superior, it'sliterally scientific,but the only way we can tellhow usable any of this is,is to take these guys on the trip.(upbeat music)- Damn, I mean itis like night and day.- Yeah.- Look at all those reflectors.- Yeah, reallysee it, if we turn it off.Oh, dude.- I mean, dude, for 80 bucks.- This is scary, dude.- Oh, (beep).(both groaning)(Nolan laughs)- Jesus.- All right, now let'sswitch over (indistinct),We'll swap trucks so we cansee who's light is more usable.- We're gonna experience eachother's trucks firsthand,as only four best friends can experience.(Zack chuckling)- What?(all laughing)- All right, let's flip this light bar on.Hey, whoa, it makes the frontof the truck so much brighter.- We can see.- Yeah, we can see, it's totally usable,and honestly, the light patternin like our near vicinityis way smoother.- This is a starkdifference in the brightness.- $1,500 better?- I don't know.- Thousand dollars better?This is one of those spotswhere, if I'm honest,this is it, man.- So, Nolan, does moreexpensive mean more better?(Nolan laughs)Why are you thinking so hard?What is there to think about?- HiLiTES set up is verycool, obviously better, yes.- Obviously, obviously,yeah, based on set up.- but it's so much, so much money.- I'm gonna say, moreexpensive is 100% worth it.- I think--- Worth it?- Our KC setup all together was...$2,000.(Nolan laughs)- And...- That's a lot of money.- Your LED set up was $90.- Yeah.- So over 10 times the amount of money,but I think our lights look cooler,looks count for a lot in this case.Even if you're not in the dark,on a trail using your lights--- Mm-hm.- You're still using your lights,you know what I mean, on the road.- Mm-hm.- Your lights don't suck at night.- They do not, they are very effective.- It lit up the road in front of you,nowhere near as far in front of you--- And not with as much clarity.- Yeah.- It's like when we firstgot to our testing siteand we turned on our lights, I was like,"Oh, that's the KC's?This is like the same."But as the light stayed on forlonger, it's hard to explain,especially if you weren't there, man.But like, it really felt more real,the light coming off of high truck,it's sounds crazy, but it's true.Also big drawback of our light set up,we could not turn onour spotlight separatefrom our running lights onour bumper, unfortunately.That's, I would say a big drawback,you're just getting allthe light all at once.- All the light goingeverywhere all at once.- Whereas you could be veryselective with your lights,which I am envious of.- Every single lightin our setup is modular.Sure, I bought all those lights,but if I wanna run two of them tomorrow,I can take the other ones off,whereas yours is sort oflike set it and forget it.- That's right, yeah.- So I think, 100%, I thinkthat KC Lights are worth it,more expensive is better.- As much as it pains me tosay, as low team, as a low boy,and someone who doesn't have$2,000 to spend on lights,I'm with you.- Yeah.- I think thelooks alone justify it,that KC logo is iconic.- That being said,if you are a guy who wants to just get outand drive at night, for some reason.- Yeah.- Away from other people,no questions asked,I don't wanna know, okay?I don't wanna know, butyou can definitely get awaywith spending less than a hundred bucks,and that's really, really impressive.- I see why people buy this stuff.- But you probably are a criminal.Thank you guys so much for watchingthis season of HiLow and supporting us.- If you're a Donut Mediafreak and you want more,check out the join button down below,you'll have access tothe Donut Undergroundwhere you'll get director'scuts of these episodes,where some of our more--- Some of my best bits, okay?- Some of bets bits.- Some of the funnieststuff I said all season.- You also get access to ourmembers only Discord channelwhere James and I hopin from time to time.You also get access to exclusivebehind the scenes videosthat kind of fill in the gaps of our...- Guys, 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