The very high end units are better if you’re at 100 mph in the dunes or desert. Main differences are slightly better moisture protection and reflectors. Rigid reflectors will pump light out a little further and more focused but that’s just never a problem while trail riding, flood is always better then distance and if someone needs distance might as well go HID.
The cheaper units quite often overrate the lumans but can usually be figured out correctly base off of the fuse being used.
For those with deeper pockets or an absolute need for the best well... but for most of us as long as the lightbar has quality led burners (Cree Phillips Osram) they will work excellent for what we’re all trying to accomplish. Most of the mid and lower priced units are the same quality with different names.
We have been running heavy lighting for years and yet to have any noisy, dim, or actually fail however at 10% the cost for the cheaper bars a failure can be affordable and/or returned. Hell the lighting on our last few rigs alone would’ve ran upwards of 25-30k a peace as they were setup if Rigid lol.
Definitely not saying the heavy hitters are bad by any means here but to each their own for their own needs, that’s just my two cents.
