One Crazy Idea
To be transparent, here at KnightBeam, we’re a small-sized business with big aspirations: to make great lighting products with Dedication, Integrity, and Quality in mind. We want those principles to be the standard, not the exception.
The KnightBeam brand was started by a husband and wife team of almost 11 years, Mike and Mayte Schantz. Mike, who was an owner-operator trucker and mechanic turned degreed engineer brought the product design and manufacturing expertise. While his wife, who spent over a decade in graphic design and business brought the product packaging, web design, and marketing expertise.
One day, after overpaying for a set of cheaply made LED lights for his GMC, and recalling how there were no good options out there for high quality legal lights for classic cars, Mike decided to design and develop a lighting product with those 3 simple principles in mind:
Dedication
For 3 years, Mike dedicated his time and family money building a lighting lab to research, design, and test his prototypes. With his degree in mechanical engineering and over 10 years of experience working in an OE automotive company (plus many trials and errors), he finally had his first product officially designed and launched. That product was a classic 7’’ round LED headlight with a 1:1 size made to look OE with a glass lens, but with modern-day light output which was actually tested to OEM standards and fully DOT compliant. All that hard work and dedication paid off!
Check out our videos to see our products in action.
Integrity
There was a time when a person’s word meant something. Deals were made by a handshake, and businesses cared more about their reputation and integrity than the bottom dollar.
KnightBeam remembers those days and that is why we stand by all our products 100%. We want you to not only be satisfied with our product, but also know that although they are made overseas, they were designed and rigorously tested here in the USA.
Check out our blog for insight in how LED lighting works and how we test each product in our own in-house lab in the good ol’ U.S. of A!
Quality
All raw materials are sourced from high quality Sub-Tier suppliers, or custom built to our specifications.
All designs are fully tested in-house California lab, or at 3rd party labs in Michigan to verify the product meets all design targets, applicable performance standards, or FMVSS 108 requirements.
All products are manufactured in high quality assembly plants using automation whenever feasible to reduce unintentional human assembly error.
In-person audits of our overseas manufacturer are routinely performed in order to ensure they are producing our product to strict OEM standards.
If for any reason you have a legitimate problem with our products or have a question, just contact us at our Toll-Free number (833) 9-KNIGHT, or email us at Support@KnightBeam.com. If you like to know more about our standards and policies, please view our blogs or read our FAQ for more information.