Truth About Amber vs Clear Off-Road Lights: Which One is Superior?" - Baja Designs

Good info, bad background tune. Sounds like a nursery theme.

I prefer 5000 Clear, Amber or Select Yellow doesn’t do it for me. But when riding my motorcycle during the day, motorist see me better with yellow..

I build custom flashlights as a hobby, and am glad to see someone that actually understands color temperature and it's correct application. Another common issue I see is the lumen crazy consumers. Many companies list blatantly false output numbers for wow factor. Others are pretty good about true numbers, but even then that is NOT the only factor to check. Beam pattern, lens clarity, and the correct combination for the intended use are far more important. I have 3 nearly "identical" lights I show people to explain this point. One 4500 lumen 5000K mixed beam, one 350ish lumen 5000K pencil beam, and a 4500 lumen 6500k mixed beam. In the end they usually go for the 5000K mixed beam or the pencil beam light if they are just after throw.

Who the hell cares? Any dipstick knows to put both colors on an off road rig then use whichever performs best for the conditions present.

For headlight i like to use white or clear ,
For foglamp amber work the best for see through fog, and rain

I have experience going mountain with white led and fog just block the view just like mirror

An old northern trick was to turn off your head lights but keep your amber running lights on when stuck in a night time heavy snow (white-out). Naturally you have to reduce speed but, you go from 10ft visibility to several 100ft. I've shown it people and who couldn't believe the hack. I always thought the vehicles sold with fog lights should be of a lower K so you had that choice. Thank you so much for the explanation; now I understand why it always worked!

I'm going all out yellow soon. Yellow LED low beam bulbs, one set of fog and a set of driving pods. Going to put 6000k LED bulbs for my high beams.
White LED bulbs are too much for the road, they blind up coming traffic. Yellow LED has that sweet spot, brighter than halogen but not crazy bright like 6,000k/6,500k bulbs.

Amber adds 5hp.

Personally I prefer 4000k
But it’s so frustrating with manufacturers using these 6500k outputs because people think they are brighter
5000k is nice tho why not go 4000k to get the best of both worlds?

I have both amber fog lights and bright white aux lights. I did use the big clear white during a blizzard in the Sierra Neveda this past winter and it really lit up the road and made it way better to drive through. But, I never use them for very long, maybe five minutes at a stretch.

Too bad you dont make a budget friendly option...

Why say Amber? When it's selective yellow? Baja simply doesn't have amber lights, they have yellow lights.

manufacturers need to STOP making products that use chips greater than 4000K due to blue light strain, specifically with oncoming traffic.

Now can we talk about CRI?

I am currently running the Squadron Pro's on my Tacoma and Polaris RZR, super bright lights, no complaints whatsoever, highly recommend them!

Amber is a good choice for a couple of very good reasons.
1: Your body is able to function by gradient and yes/no logic. So, everything is somewhere between black and shiny yellow. For example, road signs light up like lasers when you have amber beams.
2: Amber beams limit the number of potential combinations for reflection and refraction. So, in some aspects you see less, but do more with what you see.
3: If you go on a long trip, when you turn off your headlights at the destination, the sensation of sudden dark isn't as severe.

-- Full color beams give you more contrast. Black, red, and grey show up better with full color beams.

I had a set of very nice amber lights with a true pencil beam years ago.
They were the absolute best in poor conditions.
I have never found another true pencil beam amber light set.
Loved the explanations and comparisons in your video.
Thanks for helping me see the light.

Eye fatigue does play a part but from a photonics engineering perspective. It is actually the wave length of the light that makes a difference. Light at the higher end kelvin light scale has a shorter wave length and is more susceptible to dissipation from water vapour and atmospheric dust. Light at the lower end of the kelvin scale has a longer wave length and able to more efficiently pass through an atmosphere which has water vapour and dust in it

Awesome job!

The human eye has not “evolved” don’t be stupid. 😂

Just wear amber sunglasses

It's called "Selective Yellow".

Amber/yellow gives me migraines.

Love your products. I have the lp6. My friend has a bunch of another brand, my 2 lights out performs his 8 lights that are same size

Yeah but am I really going to believe Littlefinger?

Amber also attracts less bugs which is nice

You want me to comment? I have to say this is the biggest load of pompous pseudo-science, nonsense and utter crap I've heard all year. And yes, I have a physics degree and I work in electro-optics. It's like listening to a child reading out every fifth word from a synopsis of physical optics.

My old TRS projectors are 4300k. It’s lame that a lot of options nowadays are either 5000k+ or in the 3000 range. Why not in between like natural light!?

What about for more rock crawling / slow trail use? Thinking overland crawler rig. Squadron sport - would you go clear or amber and work or driving / combo pattern?

I like amber fog lights because it looks cool.

I'm starting to look at it this way:

- Amber lights work great for fog, heavy snow and dust. They also work well enough when none of those conditions are present to light up necessary areas of the "path" with slightly diminished output.

- White lights work great for lighting up areas when there is no fog, snow or dust, but don't work when those conditions are present.

Amber/Yellow works for ALL conditions, some better than others.
White ONLY works when conditions are clear.

The obvious choice if you can only get one pair of lights would be Amber by process of elimination.
If you can get more than one pair of lights, get a pair of each.

You learn something new every day! Thank you!

FINALLY!!!! Its taken be a long time to change from Halogen because of all these 6000k lights. I hate them to drive behind. The issue with blue light is even worse in high humidity as blue refracts sooner than yellow so you get even more glare. Thats why fog lights are yellow but you dont need fog to "see" the difference. 3200k is my fave allrounder.

Where was the lie? Click. Bait.

When I was a wildland fire fighter during the spring when it’s really dry in Florida driving your bulldozer down dirt roads and 2 trails stirs up a lot of dust the bright clear white lights make it hard to see with all that dust and smoke in the air .we would turn off the light bars and just use the lights in the grill 🤟

Yellow light is more relaxing for the driver due to reflection from dusty or foggy conditions. It's not light that cuts through the fog, we just feel better with a yellow tint

You mention a dimmer and hi-low switching… are the BD lights Dimmable?

I can’t wait for affordable selectable color LED’s to be in high quality lights like Baja Designs.

Clear is a lens, not a light.

We are creatures of the sun. We're not designed to process bright white light.

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Do you have a stree legal headlights ??

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Happy your keeping with the connie name almost thought you ditched the name all together

Great video! You put in great perspective I think a combo of both is a huge advantage.. 👍🏼

Both are good and should be used depending on the weather or the elements outside! Great video!

Your athletes haha

I have a question. Will your product rust overtime during the winter period and salt on the roads?

Do color blind individuals need any specific LED color in particular to see better?

As a photographer and theatrical lighting designer, this is the best explanation of color temperature in road lights I have seen. I want to also add comment about the myth of a "fan" beam", which you might want to do a video on. Many, many fog lights rely on using the fan beam only. This is only good for distance. A good "fog" light must also flood light directly in front of the vehicle, since fog on the hiway means you are going slow. I noticed in your vids that you have good "frontal wash". This is a step ahead of most hiway lights out there.