Focker
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- Scott
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My finding also regarding lumens, the KC's are 850 and that is much lower than both the Ridgid and Baja Designs rated lumens for their SAE fog lights. The KC's are incrementally better but from the naked eye it just isn't that much. The stock LED fogs really are not a bad product when you have seen both the way I did. I would say it is better to look elsewhere like you did with the Baja Designs if you want something much brighter and still have SAE. I also have the Tazer Mini set so the fogs stay on with high beams.After looking at a bunch of different replacement fog lights I settled on Baja Designs Squadron which are sold in both street legal SAE configuration at 2,480 lumens and an off-road configuration at 3,150 lumens. Another nice feature is that depending on your bumper configuration you can change out lenses for one of the many options they offer (e.g., replace a broken one or switch between clear and amber) or affix their standard cover. My ARB Bondi bumper lets me do all of these.
Every other fog light replacement I found is below 2,000 lumens with Rigid at 1,760, Morimoto at 1,200, JW Speaker at 1,080 and what I believe are your KCs at only 850. I could not find a value for the stock LEDs but I had guessed about 1,000 which would be confirmed by your tests.
The lighting impact of the Baja Designs SAE (street legal) is clearly noticeable. Through my Tazer, I have enabled them on my stock LED high beams and you can instantly see a major gain in road level and side illumination when switching these on with either high or low beam on. When they are the only lights on it is like a flat low beam in that it is drivable with only the fog lights on which will be great if I have to drive in a blinding snow or fog which I haven't yet had to do with this rig.
Do you happen to have a photo or can you take one of your BD lights with the headlights covered?
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