Rock lights
Two platforms.
Pick the one your build is on.
Diamond RGB is the RGB platform. Axion adds a dedicated white channel and belongs to the RGB+W system. Choose, configure and order below.
Step one
Choose your platform
The difference that matters most is not brightness — it is which lighting system the rest of your machine is on.
The decision
RGB and RGB+W are two systems
RGB makes white by mixing red, green and blue, and it usually lands slightly blue or slightly pink. RGB+W gives white an emitter of its own. That is the upgrade — and it is also a different system.
Diamond RGB lives here
- Rhino 2.0 whips
- Rhino 2.5 Fattie whips
- Diamond RGB rock lights
- Halos
- RGB strip
Connex turn, brake and reverse boards and the Connex switch panels run on RGB.
Axion RGB+W lives here
- Rhino 3.0 whips
- Axion RGB+W rock lights
- RGB+W strip
Connex turn, brake and reverse is not available for RGB+W yet.
Build on one system or the other. The Bluetooth controller is the same part number either way, so there is no second controller to choose between - but RGB and RGB+W are separate architectures, and a machine that wants both is a wiring conversation we would rather have on the phone than guess at here.
Axion RGB+W · on the bench
Measured, not estimated
Axion is the platform we have put on the bench. Every figure below is labelled by how it was obtained.
Illuminance was read at 13 in from the assembled light. Repeatable, but not comparable with figures published at one metre and not honestly convertible into one. Lux is not lumens — we do not publish a lumen figure for Axion, because we do not have an integrating sphere to produce one. Diamond has not been through this bench, so no equivalent figures for it appear anywhere on this page.
The platforms
What each one is for
Diamond RGB
24 individually addressable RGB LEDs in a milled billet housing. The rock light for a build running Rhino RGB.
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24
RGB LEDs per light
Individually addressable, in a grid the patterns travel across. -
6061-T6
Housing
CNC-milled billet aluminium, resin filled. -
IP69K
Sealing
The washdown rating, not just a rain rating.
Catalog specification.
Wiring: Lights run back to splitters, which run to the controller.
Axion RGB+W
RGB colour plus a dedicated white channel of its own, rather than red, green and blue mixed to approximate white.
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Dedicated
White
A white die of its own in every RGBW package, on its own channel. -
CNC-milled
Housing
Machined aluminium, potted face.
Catalog specification.
Wiring: Lights link one to the next along the vehicle, with power injected every three lights.
Built here
Engineering, machining and assembly under one roof
Rhino designs the boards, writes the firmware, machines the housings and assembles, tests and services the lights in North Carolina.
Our board, our firmware
The electronics in both platforms are Rhino designs running Rhino firmware. The LED packages are bought-in parts — Cree, like everyone buys silicon in — and the boards they sit on are ours.
Machined and finished here
Housings are milled from billet aluminium and finished in-house. Diamond's 6061-T6 housing and IP69K rating are its catalog specification; Axion's machined housing is potted at the face.
Tested before it ships
Axion is the platform with a published bench record. Both are assembled and checked here by the people who will repair them if anything ever goes wrong.
Ownership
Serviceable. Not disposable.
We designed these, so we can open them. A light that fails comes back here and is repaired by the people who assembled it — it is not a throwaway.
Request a repair online
Start an RMA from your account and track it through the process.
Real technical support
Wiring and placement questions go to people who build the product, not a script.
Plan the install first
Tell us the vehicle and what else is on it, and we will confirm the kit, the wiring and which system it belongs on before you order.
Customer builds
On real machines
Builds our customers sent in, labelled by the platform actually tagged to each one. Where a build carries both, it is running two separate systems.
Canam Maverick X3 Build
Diamond RGB
Golf Cart With Whips, LED Strips And Rock Lights
Diamond RGB
2021 Jeep Gladiator JT
Diamond RGB
2024 Polaris Xpedition
Diamond RGB
Polaris Pro R Build
Diamond RGB
2023 CAN AM Maverick X3 TURBO RR XDS
Diamond RGB
Defender With Music Mode Syncing From One Controller
Diamond RGB
Dodge Ram With RGB Rock Lights
Diamond RGB
Before you order
Questions worth asking
Can I run Diamond RGB and Axion RGB+W together?
Not on the same lighting system. Diamond uses RGB architecture and Axion uses RGB+W. They are different lighting architectures and cannot share one configured system.
A vehicle can run both product families — plenty do — but as two separate systems with their own controllers. Tell us what you are building and we will lay both out with you.
Which one should I buy?
Start from what is already on the machine. Running Rhino 2.0 or 2.5 whips? Diamond is the matching platform. Running 3.0? Axion is. Starting from nothing, the question is whether you want usable white as well as colour — that is what the dedicated white channel buys you.
How many lights do I need?
Four covers the wheel wells, which is where most builds start. Eight adds the nose, the tail and light along the belly. Twelve and up is density for bigger machines and show builds.
The Axion kit builder draws the placement for any size and shows where the power injection points fall — see the Axion builder.
Do I need another controller?
Only if you do not already have one on the same architecture. If your machine is already running a Rhino controller on the system you are adding to, keep it — the builder above lets you say so and leaves it out of the order.
What happens if one fails?
It comes back to us and we repair it. Because we designed the board and assembled the light, we can open it on the bench. Start the request from your account and track it through.