Fog vs spot lights, which is best for the forest?

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Hello to all, hope this finds ye well. I do a lot of driving in forests. Looking at the beam types below, it seems to me that the wide beam of the fog light would do a better job at illuminating the forest around me (this image is lifted from the PIAA website) - but what do I know !

Anybody got any opinions on this please?

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An LED, mixed flood/spot, lightbar fitted central into your bull bar would turn night to day.
Cheap ones work well, expensive ones are better but IMO not as much as the proportional increase in cost.
Go for one of these to start with and see how you get on with it.

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These are probably at the top of the tree ...

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Fog lamps give a low, wide spread of light which is more likely what you want. In combination with the standard low beams it should give plenty of light where you need it. You probably have the original wiring for it still installed so it's just a case of mounting them and connecting them up.

They do aim quite short, so they're really only of use at low speed- once you're going faster, you'll hit anything in that area before you can react to it!
 
ned_ said:
Hello to all, hope this finds ye well. I do a lot of driving in forests. Looking at the beam types below, it seems to me that the wide beam of the fog light would do a better job at illuminating the forest around me (this image is lifted from the PIAA website) - but what do I know !

Anybody got any opinions on this please?

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Can you give more context? Are you talking fast or slow driving? And are you meaning the factory lights on a vehicle or after market lights aux lights?

Is the need to use these lights on the public roads? And what exactly are you trying to see and where?
 
fogs are designed to provide illumination at low level so you stay on the road and have limited range.

LED light bars are what you need for forests, I live in the middle of one with 1.5km of dirt track to my house, ask me how i know!

Or a rack of rally spots, but technology has moved on a lot!

LED light bars will provide a combination of patterns within the same bar.
I use two ( the larger of the two is a multi beam)

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