Hella LED Driving Lights

The 470 Led Light Bar Does a Hella Good Job of Lighting Up the Road Ahead.

- Dave Morley

IT’S GETTING pretty rare these days to see a four-wheel drive without some kind of LED lighting on board. The advantages over conventional filament lighting are many and start with low current draw and extend to light weight, compact/flexible designs, toughness, dustproof/waterproof construction and, increasingly, good lighting performance. Not for nothing did the trucking industry adopt LED technology some 20 years ago.

The catch is that a lot of the LED lights you see hanging off bullbars and roof racks these days amount to not much more than flood beam work-light stuff. The sort of thing you’d see on the back of a tractor or lighting up the forecourt of a wrecking yard to deter souvenir hunters. Oh sure, those units send out plenty of light, but the beam tends to be scattered, lighting up the trees above and the paddocks to each side rather than just the road and its immediate surroundings. And, in an outright sense, those units can’t begin to match the beam penetration of