Hi everyone,
I've had my B2320 for about a year and have been reading this forum for about the same length of time. I've picked up a lot from the discussions here. I thought I'd share my first modification to my Kubota and get your thoughts.
As you can see from the pictures I added a 72 W light bar on the front, 2 x 12W work lights to the back and a beacon to the top of the ROPS. I have no experience in metal fabrication so it's all just some pieces of aluminum and u-bolts. The zip ties on the ROPS are probably not the best way to hold down the wires, but they are all had at the house.
The switches and holder came from otrattw.net. Thought a lot about where to mount them and decided to cut into the blank plastic panel to the right of the driver. There is ample room underneath the panel for wiring. To power the green switch LED which illuminate the writing, i spliced into the red marker light at the back. The LEDs don't draw nearly enough to disrupt the marker light circuit. As an added bonus, the green LEDs only come on when I turn the headlights on.
I mounted the relays below the right side of the driver seat and secured all the wiring to existing Kubota wires. I plan to heat shrink the wiring harness to the relay when I get some. Hopefully this setup will provide me with years of trouble free lighting.
My only concern is that I purchased the lights before I knew about the limited capacity of the dynamo. I've been running the numbers and my power use is probably cutting it close. Here's how I figure it. The dynamo produces about 170 W (14 A at 12V). 96 W ROPS lights ( the beacon draws next to nothing), 14 W headlights ( I replaced them with LEDs, 7 W each), 10 W dash lights ( 2 W lights x 5 lights), 20 W tail lights ( i believe they are 10 W each bulb). Total i'm drawing 140 W with everything on. Is there anything else that will take power? I'll do the alternator upgrade but don't' really want to if it's not necessary. Thanks in advance for your comments
I've had my B2320 for about a year and have been reading this forum for about the same length of time. I've picked up a lot from the discussions here. I thought I'd share my first modification to my Kubota and get your thoughts.
As you can see from the pictures I added a 72 W light bar on the front, 2 x 12W work lights to the back and a beacon to the top of the ROPS. I have no experience in metal fabrication so it's all just some pieces of aluminum and u-bolts. The zip ties on the ROPS are probably not the best way to hold down the wires, but they are all had at the house.
The switches and holder came from otrattw.net. Thought a lot about where to mount them and decided to cut into the blank plastic panel to the right of the driver. There is ample room underneath the panel for wiring. To power the green switch LED which illuminate the writing, i spliced into the red marker light at the back. The LEDs don't draw nearly enough to disrupt the marker light circuit. As an added bonus, the green LEDs only come on when I turn the headlights on.
I mounted the relays below the right side of the driver seat and secured all the wiring to existing Kubota wires. I plan to heat shrink the wiring harness to the relay when I get some. Hopefully this setup will provide me with years of trouble free lighting.
My only concern is that I purchased the lights before I knew about the limited capacity of the dynamo. I've been running the numbers and my power use is probably cutting it close. Here's how I figure it. The dynamo produces about 170 W (14 A at 12V). 96 W ROPS lights ( the beacon draws next to nothing), 14 W headlights ( I replaced them with LEDs, 7 W each), 10 W dash lights ( 2 W lights x 5 lights), 20 W tail lights ( i believe they are 10 W each bulb). Total i'm drawing 140 W with everything on. Is there anything else that will take power? I'll do the alternator upgrade but don't' really want to if it's not necessary. Thanks in advance for your comments
