Rigid Industries LED lighting systems are designed & manufactured here in the USA. Follow along as we get a glimpse into the top LED light manufacturers operation.





As most of you know, Rigid Industries makes the best auxiliary LED lighting on the market! We race offroad & we have seen all the other imitations. No one has produced an LED light that matches Rigid's quality, durability or light output. If you want the best, you've found it in Rigid.



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What LEDs are used in the design?

 

You know I am not sure, in their smaller dome applications they were using Acriche - Seoul Semiconductor brand LED's

I will ask, I know they are USA made LEDs.

 

I do- Depending on the model, Rigid uses Cree XP-G, XM-L, and Osram Blacks with 10mm square carclo optics. Crees are made in North Carolina, so that part is true. I know a lot of people that will not buy Rigid because they do not advertise what LEDs they use. I had a back-and-forth e-mail with Paul Record in the sales department and I had to give him an explanation why I wanted to know. They are afraid people will reverse-engineer their designs. A LED company that is afraid to post their LED models is bad marketing. Its like Ford selling trucks but not opening the hood. This is funny because any monkey will simply buy a light bar from them and then open it up. While their torture test video is impressive, I still don't trust them. I could do everything they did to my truck, it doesn't mean its a stronger truck.

 

I've been looking a lot into Rigid products, and as impressive as their products are as far as their large light bars, I purchased an ebay light bar and it doesn't appear to be much less bright than a Rigid Industries light of the same size. I am rather impressed with the design of their Dually and Dually D2 models, but for what you pay for any Rigid product, you can probably find something comparable in terms of light without breaking the bank.

 

I hope you have a good warranty on that eBay light bar. While Rigid isn't 100% truthful, you have to keep in mind what you are buying here. These are high-powered, high-heat emitting LED devices. They must have proper waterproofing, optics, current control, and heat sinking for a good life, as well as good LEDs. Rigid uses Osram and Nichia (stated above) while the lights on eBay use chinese knockoffs that don't have the quality control. I'm not saying Rigid is the best, but give it a few months and that eBay special will start to have flickering LEDs, considerable lumen drop, etc. And keep in mind (especially when it comes to high-power LEDs!) that you get what you pay for. A friend told me a while ago: "you only suffer from the high price of a quality product once, but if you buy something cheap, you suffer with bad quality for a long time"

tl;dr- While I wouldn't buy an expensive Rigid, I wouldn't be looking to eBay when it comes to LEDs (let alone high-power LEDs).

 

I was concerned with quality at first, considering you do get what you pay for and I'm a firm believer in such. But like many other people, I really can't afford Rigid. But the bar I bought from ebay, like the idiot I can be sometimes I decided to take it apart and peek inside of it to see how it was made and impressively, it doesn't appear to be of poor build quality. Also, I have a habit of taking just about everything apart to see inside of it to see how it works.

The entire aluminum housing is pretty solid, no appearances of cracks deformities at all anywhere. There are tight, rubber seals between the lexan and the housing. There are actually several PCB's installed in this light bar with four LED's on each along with the proper electrical components for each LED set and they're all screwed directly to the housing. Also, they're built with Cree XM-L LED's, and Cree LED's are made in America.

Now, I haven't shot at it, drug it down the road, drilled a hole through it, or anything to show the torture that it can (or can't) withstand because the true test of such is a real world application. It did, however, survive near submersion. From my findings, and only about 10 hours of operation thus far with an hour of constant-on operation, it hasn't suffered from any instant fatigue. I will certainly keep my eyes open if I notice any fading down the line.

But what does suck about this LED light bar is how the beam is formed. While manufacturers like Rigid and Vision X design their light pattern from a reflective housing, these kinds of lights that I have are optically controlled through a lens, which doesn't give off light 500+ meters away but it certainly has my desired "flood" illumination over a football field away.

Raptor, I will not refute what your friend told you, in fact I absolutely agree with it 110%, and I will possibly use that quote later on down the road, lol. But for someone who is early military (and we all know early enlisted soldiers don't make squat), a daddy, and the sole form of income for a family, I will find something that will last me for the while until I can reach for the gold, better yet in this case "pay" for the gold.

 

Well it sounds like its a pretty decent if it uses Crees. Got a linky?

 

Certainly do.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/130702957249...84.m1423.l2649

I've been intending on making a video of it with a bit of "action", but my wife took her super awesome Canon T3i DSLR camera back home on vacation and I've been left with my super less-awesome-for-video-recording Samsung Galaxy S2. I think I have a JVC HD camcorder somewhere, if I can find it then I'll see about making a recording minus a bunch of swear words that my other ones do have. Also if I have any time, I'll see about taking it apart again and taking pictures along making a video recording of everything.

 

Oh, it says "spot beam"...It certainly is NOT. But again, I needed a flood beam cuz I'm looking to get actual spot lamps to put in my bumper.

 

Does any company offer a discount on these. I am looking at upgrading all my lights.

 

Good luck, most places are offering retail. LEDs are in high demand right now

 

Hey AJUSA. What's the price on these? Any discount for members here? FWIW I'm NOT impressed by ads that don't include a price!

What's involved in that "torture test"??? All I saw was a glimpse of someone dunking the bar in bucket with a foot or so of water. Hardly a torture test!

As for "made in USA" sorry but that doesn't mean S*#@ to me. Some of the WORST products that I've ever seen were made in the USA! I'm not trying to be a cynic here but your ad needs a lot more meat to it if you hope to convince anyone to pay a premium price for your product. It doesn't even say what the warranty is. The E-bay one clearly says that it had a two year warranty.

 

I wonder what a 20" light bar would look like in my front bumper hole and maybe even replacing my fogs with the duallys but would that even work? Anyone have any ideas?

 

Their torture tests are quite horrific if you've seen them all. Check out "Rigid Industries Torture Test" on youtube and you can see the many things they've done with a light bar. The idea behind many of these torture tests is they can withstand just about anything and still be totally or somewhat operational, that is, without a 500ton object rolling over it. There's a picture online of a guy who hit a buck, or even a moose, but while the truck was totaled, his rigid Industries light bar survived completely. Clean off the blood, and it's still a functioning unit.

Rigid Industries use the same LEDs in many ebay light bars. However, they're the only ones with the optical design that they have. I wish I had a video, but if you ever see a Rigid Industries light, you'll see that the pattern is very shaped, very little spill, very controlled, distinct, regardless of their spot of flood dispersion (10 degrees, 20 degrees, or even 60 degrees). In fact, from what I've seen, they're the only light manufacturer that controls the light output so clearly. Less than a handful of ebay lights on the market have such tight beam control. Not even PIAA or Vision X are so calculated.

Now with that being said, it's all dependent on purpose of use. I have four round 27W lights (60 degree flood), four 27W lights (20 degree spot), a 33" 180W light bar (60 degree flood), and a 34" 108W light bar (15 degree spot). I'm a big ebay shopper, not only because I'm an impulse shopper, but also because I'm trying to find a great deal on an LED light bar. Almost everyone knows about Rigid Industries, but is there anything else out there just as good, or even close to, in terms of light output? What about being cost effective? In my opinion, of course.

I've been wanting a 30" Rigid Industries E-series combo for a while. On ebay, they go for nearly $1,000. Well, forget that! I can't afford that in one hit! And I'm impulsive, so I gotta have something, time: yesterday! Also, the cost of ALL the lights I have equate to one single 30" E-series, which I wasn't very fond of since I have quite a bit more light output than the 30" E-series in total. Not a single one of my light bars have the same visual output as a Rigid Industries light at the same size. Now, my lights don't have the throw, but I certainly cover a huge area up to several hundred feet and living in North Carolina, it's perfect for me. Of course, I have lights everywhere with no more room to spare. I'll try to make videos tonight, but the camcorder function in my Galaxy S2 sucks, big time!

In conclusion to my story above, Rigid Industries lights are not only high priced, but very tactical, unmatched in technology, and built with amazing quality in mind. They put a lot of careful engineering into the design of their reflectors, which is really what they're best known for. They have the most clear optics on the market. However, I'd buy one if I had that kind of money. I'm content with what I have, and I have a bright setup with huge coverage, but I'd still love to have me my 30" E-series light bar.

Oh, and they have a "limited lifetime warranty", even stated in the website. I don't know what that means, but I'm the type of person who really cares less about warranties unless it's an item not designed to withstand stress (i.e. GPS units, TVs, my stupid red-ringed XBOX 360, etc).