Lighting

Street Legal and Non-Street Legal Lighting Kits

 

Non-street legal lighting kits for golf carts are generally great for driving around your property or your community, particularly if your community is a golf cart community.

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On the other hand, street-legal options are great for moving around in your cart outside the parameters of personal property. Much like other vehicles on the road, these light kits make your cart or other electric vehicles road-worthy and fit to be driven around your local neighborhood.

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Due to available kits falling into one of the two aforementioned categories, it is important that as you select lights for your cart, you bear in mind how you use your cart on a daily basis. If you usually use your cart on public roads, then you are likely to need a street-legal kit. Of course, the opposite is true if you only use your cart within the confines of your own property or a private golf cart friendly neighborhood.

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LED vs Halogen Bulbs

 

Once you are clear on the categorization of LED bulbs for carts as street-legal or non-street legal, you can move on to some of the more intricate features that light kits have to offer. Such features include the kinds of bulbs a given kit will present with. As intimated from the title, you have two options when it comes to lighting types - LED or halogen.

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LED lights tend to burn brighter & more energy-efficient, and have a longer lifespan. Of course, the increased energy efficiency is a great feature for the batteries as this means it takes less energy to run these lights.

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Halogen bulbs, on the other hand, may prove to be less energy efficient and are likely to place a greater demand on the cart’s battery, causing it to run out of juice faster and have a shorter lifespan. Importantly, halogen light bulbs do use older, established technology that is considered to be a trustworthy.

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While weighing the pros and cons of each light bulb option, cart owners should consider using voltage reducers alongside your light kit. This is particularly recommended in those instances when 6-volt and 8-volt batteries are being used on your golf cart. In such instances, the voltage reducer will help reduce the power inputted into your lights, thereby reducing the possibility of the batteries burning out. We have many voltage reducers to choose from that can be used well with any chosen light kits.

 

Give us a call or stop by today to see what we can do to light your cart up!