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STRIKER LED DRIVING LIGHTS
LIGHTFORCE AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
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LIGHTFORCE AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
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Australian designed, engineered and manufactured Striker® LED Driving Lights. Compact in size, but not in performance. With a stylish rectangular form factor for a cool look on any 4X4, SUV and some passenger vehicles.
Design Challenge
Our designers considered the latest vehicle headlight designs, the configuration of the many bull bars and nudge bars on the market, and the increased popularity of lower profile, low hoop bumper designs when they were designing the Striker® LED. The new look Striker® LED, with its low-profile rectangle shape and subtle curves complements the angular lines of many modern headlights. It also looks great on vehicles with circular headlights, providing contrast in design. The light must still maintain an IP69k rating, EMC shielding, achieve light output 700m plus to 1 Lux and be 1kg or under (to mount to nudge bar tabs).
Design Solution
The Striker® LED is best in class amongst the field of compact driving lights. Whilst only 60 watts per light, they pack a punch with light output, delivering 1 lux at 754 metres per pair. That’s around 30 to 50% further than many similar lights on the market. Designed, engineered and manufactured in Australia, not only does the Striker® LED need to cope with our harsh conditions, it must also meet those of our partners in the USA, Sweden and the many other countries we export to, where temperatures range from 40 degrees below freezing to scorching conditions well over 40 degrees Celsius
Design Impact
Historically, for driving lights, Lightforce would never consider any shape but round, as our parabolic reflectors project the maximum light available. Any change, such as the cutting off the top and bottom to create a rectangular shape, would impact the light output, beam pattern and lux distance. Lightforce have always been about performance and quality... so we weren’t going to compromise on that. With the introduction of LED technology this barrier to performance has now been resolved and high-performance LED driving lights can now be built in many shapes including LED Light Bars, round lights and the utility lights we produce today.
Other Key Features
Brackets and mounting options - The unique bracket system of Lightforce lights has been carried across the latest lights in our range including the HTX, Genesis LED, Venom LED and now the Striker® LED. Made from a composite glass-filled nylon, they can withstand greater vibration than other types of brackets. But the design thinking doesn’t just stop at the material. The brackets are also reversible, which gives you flexibility to position the light according to the fitment constraints. Filters – modular and reversible Lightforce’s unique modular filter system has been carried over to the new Striker® LED. There are three filters available: • A spot filter comes standard with each Striker® LED and delivers a virtually unaltered beam. It protects your light’s lens. • A combo filter disperses some of the light into a wide (letterbox) beam pattern aiding peripheral vision on windy roads and 4WD applications, and • A flood filter, which further disperses the light into a ‘ball’, suitable for campsites, workshops and high-performance scene lighting. Striker® LED lights can also be mounted ‘upside down’ in pendant style, and to ensure they look the right way up, you simply spin the lens filter around.
