ARB Intensity LED Lights - High Intensity Lights - Off Road Magazine

ARB Intensity LED Lights - High Intensity Lights

While most companies are scrambling to make the newest version of an extruded aluminum lightbar, it was refreshing to see ARB come out with its round LED Intensity lights. They are not to be ignored. They command attention with their 9-inch faces, each holding 32 LEDs and bright red bezels. The construction of ARB's lights make them second to none with a round die-cast aluminum housing that has been built into a heat sink with fins to provide 200 percent more cooling surface area. The front red bezel holds the polycarbonate lens and a rubber seal to the housing for a long-lasting vibration-resistant LED light that is waterproof and sealed from dust (with an IP68 rating). The surface-mount LED technology encased in the lights has progressed to the point that a combination of flood and spot Intensity lights will rival any pair of HID lights, and the 50,000-hour life of the LEDs makes them more attractive than any halogen or HID light, even at the hefty price tag that LED lights still demand.

The most suiting word to explain the performance of ARB's new LED lights? Intense.

Specs
Size: 8.7 W x 9.7 H x 4.7 D
Weight: 6.8 pounds
Body: High-pressure die-cast aluminum
Lens: Polycarbonate
LED count: 32 LEDs
LED life: 50,000 hours
Power: 90 watts
Light output: 8,200 raw lumens (spot), 8,200 raw lumens (flood)
Lux at 10m (32 feet): 2,250 Lx (spot), 770 Lx (flood)
Beam spread: 10 degrees (spot), 20 degrees (flood)
Color temperature: 6,500 Kelvin

PhotosView Slideshow We chose to run our ARB Intensity lights in an Aussie-style setup with one spot and one floodlight working together. While both 32-LED lights look identical, the flood will give a wider pattern that will improve the visibility of close surroundings and the spotlight will reach farther out in front of the vehicle but with a narrower beam pattern. A 3.5mm polycarbonate lens cover snaps through the front red bezel and is easily replaceable should it get damaged or eventually too scratched up. The light output of the combined flood and spot lights makes a very effective pattern to successfully navigate at night with. The girl in the distance is 300 feet out from the bumper of the Jeep, and the signs are another 40 feet in back of her. Each Intensity light weighs close to 7 pounds, so a TIG-welded 304-grade stainless-steel mounting system was designed so that it can also be flipped to hold the lights parallel against a vertical surface (like on the back of a utility bed). It uses two bolts per side to hold the light in place—the larger bolt to carry the weight of the light and the smaller bolt to hold the angle of the light. The body of the light is actually designed to be a large heat sink with cooling fins in the back that increase cooling surface area by 200 percent. While surface-mount LEDs (light-emitting diodes) themselves do not produce much heat, the circuitry and parts that power them do. This heat needs to be dissipated. arb intensity led lights test 1 arb intensity led lights 1