Rigid Industries 360 Connect 40-Inch LED Light Bar Assembly

The Rigid Industries 360 Connect is a 40-inch LED light bar assembly built for boats and rigs that need to turn night into day. It runs 32 LEDs behind a clear lens in a black housing, and it puts out a combo beam pattern that mixes tight, long-throw spot optics with wider flood coverage. Rigid rates it at 24,480 raw lumens, which is a lot of light for a single bar. On the water, that means you can pick out a channel marker, a crab pot, or a dock line from well down-range while still lighting up the water right off your bow.

Combo beam is the reason this bar earns its spot at the helm. A pure spot bar throws far but leaves you blind up close. A pure flood lights the foreground and quits at 40 yards. The 360 Connect gives you both in one housing, so you're not choosing between seeing the horizon and seeing the swim platform. For running back to the ramp after dark, or working a shoreline, that blend is exactly what you want.

Here's where this kit goes further than a plain light bar. It ships with eight 4-inch RGB light pods, four set up as spot and four as drive optics, plus black covers for each one. RGB means the accent color is fully adjustable, so you can run white for real work light and switch to a color for cockpit ambiance, night fishing, or just showing off at the sandbar. The pods run off their own 4-wire controller circuit, separate from the main bar, so plan for a little extra switch-panel room when you rig this up.

Let's talk power, because 24,480 lumens doesn't come free. The bar draws 14.3 amps at 14 volts DC, or right around 200 watts. That's a real load. We'd run 8 to 10 gauge power wire on anything but the shortest runs, fuse it properly, and put it behind a heavy-duty relay rather than trying to switch that current through a dash toggle. On smaller boats in the 25 to 30 foot range, keep an eye on your charging system. A bar this bright, run for hours alongside your electronics, is happier on a boat with charging capacity to spare.

Mounting is straightforward with the included hardware. The bar sits cleanly across most center-console T-tops and hard-top brows, and the supplied brackets bolt right up to aluminum tubing. If you're going into a fiberglass hard top, do it right and add backing plates behind the mount points. Fiberglass alone will let the bolts pull or strip over a season of pounding. And if you run radar, check your clearance first. A 40-inch bar can crowd a dome on some express layouts.

Because this thing lives outside in salt air, treat it like any premium piece of deck gear. The black housing and clear lens look sharp on day one, but salt film and UV haze will dull them if you ignore them. A wipe-down after salt trips and an occasional plastic polish keeps the lens clear and the output honest. At the pod connectors, a dab of dielectric grease and a proper heat-shrink seal go a long way toward keeping water out after that first wet season.

So who's this for? Offshore center consoles, bay boats, and larger tenders where the owner wants genuine long-range light plus adjustable color, all from one integrated kit instead of piecing together a bar and separate pods. It's overkill for a 16-foot jon boat, and the current draw makes that clear. But on a boat with the electrical headroom to feed it, the 360 Connect is a complete lighting package. Bar, eight RGB pods, covers, mounting hardware, and the connect harness all come in one box, ready to wire in.