This creates a highly water resistant seal against moisture and the high winds of driving sealing the electronics from the elements. The forward face of the housing is a square aluminum ring bolted down with stainless steel hardware sealing the thick Polycarbonate Lexan lens behind the ring. The side panels of the housing are contoured to recess the military breather and adjustment bolts from snagging on obstacles. The housing is made of thick, strong aluminum that looks like it could take a lot of abuse. What we really like about the design of these Black Oak LED Pods is that they look and feel like they were built with these concepts in mind. That’s probably why we like Jeeps and military equipment. When it comes to form and function, we like simple, purpose built, no-nonsense design that’s built simple, strong and designed to last.
#Black oak led light bar install
So what do we think… We’re still putting together a full breakdown of our thoughts on the light pods, which will be coming up soon in another article but we want to cap off this install with the highlights of what we think about these pods. First impression: Extremely Bright! Even though we were testing these out for the first time during daylight hours, the power was very noticeable! With the Lights install and wired up, we tested our work. So these Pods were going to be installed onto the same windshield brackets. Socket set or wrench set for battery terminal boltsĭeciding on where to mount the lights was pretty easy since the pair of lights that were coming off the Jeep were located in a great place to light the way and the brackets were in great shape.Wire Cutters, Wire Stripper, Crimp Butt Connectors (if combining switches).More on that in the installation notes below. It’s inches away from my hand and easy to find quickly. On the JK I found a good place on the left side of the steering wheel in the recess below the steering wheel tilt adjust lever. I’ve always tried to install the switch that controls my lighting somewhere near the steering wheel so that I could easily reach for the switch in the dark.
Quick, easy access to auxiliary lighting is a great asset especially when you’re traveling down back roads and you need to toggle the lights on and off quickly so you don’t blind oncoming traffic. The last thing to consider was where the switch was going to be installed.
Installation would only require us to mount the lights and install the wiring harness.
The windshield brackets from the previous lights were in great, rust-free shape and the location did well to light up the way so we were going to be reusing these brackets. We’ll show how we did that below.įor the install you’ll have to decide where to mount them. This was not a difficult task and only requires us to splice together the wires of the two switches into one single switch. In our install we wanted a single switch to control both LED Pods together so we would be combining the two wiring harnesses with a single control switch. Each Pod comes with a complete wiring harness which included a built-in fuse, relay, & switch. Installation of the Black Oak LED Pods was pretty easy and straight forward thanks to the wiring harness Black Oak included with the light Pods.
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