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[Irving]

I don't know, Is have to ask my friends that did all research.

[brutal]

On those LED light bars, I have some friends that did a very deep dive on those and long story short you can get ones that perform like the $600 ones, but for only like $100. One of those 'made in the same factory, but with an off-brand name' kind of thing. I haven't gotten the down low from them, but if you're interested let me know and I will.

The nicer bars you can switch between driving lights and floods and not have them both on at the same time like in my cheapy one. One of my buddies has his wired in such a manner as the light bar can be turned on independently of the headlights like normal, but it also automatically kicks on anytime the headlights are switched to brights.

After having been burned by using a cheap set of cab LED lights that took a shit in less than a year, I'm hesitant to buy one of the cheaper LED light bars for a mid-bumper application but would be interested in details about this. I'd probably wire mine into the factory fog lights I installed, but also switchable when not needed.

I was actually considering this one: https://www.amazon.com/Rough-Country...y&sr=8-13&th=1

[MrPrena]

Yup.
Even Walmart and auto shops sells suitable led now.

[Zundfolge]

I was up in Denver earlier today



kidding ... sheesh

[Grant H.]

Rebuilding my NAS...

More than a slight upgrade...

GA-7PESH2 by ARNEWB, on Flickr
E5-2630LV2 by ARNEWB, on Flickr
128gb ECC by ARNEWB, on Flickr

[00tec]

I bought the light bar on my RZR from Oz-Usa. Cheaper, but not the SUPER cheap stuff. Actually has the pressure breathers and such. If I was going to put it in a bumper, I would have the lens covered in headlight film for the sake of avoiding rock chips.

[Irving]

I checked with my friends and they were dabbling in the light bar market like ten years ago when everything was much more expensive.

Basically Hanma was the Chinese company that at the time was blowing the pants off of other generically priced eBay stuff. He said most of the technology was in the reflector design. Back then he made a bulk purchase ($5,000) of lights which brought the cost of a single 22" bar down to $60 and a 42" bar down to $100. He kept what he wanted and resold everything else. Sounds like this was back when it was several hundred dollars to get anything decent. So I guess there are no secret good deals any more.

[MrPrena]

I was up in Denver earlier today



kidding ... sheesh

That is more of a Kavorkian mushroom than hallucinogenic.

[Zundfolge]

Rebuilding my NAS...

My Lacie NAS just died too so I decided to upgrade a little bit myself (not as powerful as yours, but its just a simple media server). I got tired of risking losing data so I'm going RAID this time (thankfully my NAS died slowly so I was able to get one good backup in hours before it gave up the ghost).




3TB doesn't sound like a lot but its more than I need right now and by the time I need to grow into more I can just swap out the drives with bigger ones.

That is more of a Kavorkian mushroom than hallucinogenic.

Yeah, but its more photogenic.

[Irving]

Picked up these mostly free Coleman Xtreme cooler off of Craigslist today. Cat for scale. Also got a Save Phace welding helmet for $10.