Are you able to post the results of your LED test?
Yes, the article has been printed so we can post anything about it. We didn't necessarily "rank" the 6 manufacturers that elected to participate in our evaluation because a person's lighting preferences vary to an overwhelming degree. And we didn't have enough space in the magazine to come up with different categories to rank each separate light.
I'll be happy to say that the American-made lights that we tested are definitely superior products than the oversees-made products. This is true for many different reasons, mainly because of build quality and optical clarity, though. And you'd be surprised to see how many mainstream manufacturers don't build their products in the good-ol' USA.
The main thing I would recommend for any consumer looking to buy an LED bar is to go to a dealer and really evaluate each different light for yourself. And, don't think that a 50 inch light bar is going to out-shine a 30 incher. That's another reason why evaluating different lengths of light bars in our test (contrary to some people's opinion) really paid off. Some of the manufacturers sent us smaller light bars knowing that they would be just as bright or brighter than larger ones in our evaluation (none of the manufacturers knew who was sending what before the article was printed, they found that out on their own time) and their products shone bright for not only the fact that the smaller LED was brighter, but also because a consumer could buy less and get more light.
Hope that little tidbit helped. We should be posting the entire article on our website,
www.sandsports.net, in the next couple of weeks.