Puck lights for cockpit

[Mike S]

While I have the boat in my shop, I thought I would install some small LED lights under the gunwales. Just enough light to keep from stumbling around in the early mornings and evenings. Has any one got a product and intensity ratings to suggest?

Thanks,

Mike

 

[shawnee83]

I have found these guys to have a good selection of LED's. They also have details on the Lumen ratings etc for their stuff. Good luck!

https://www.superbrightleds.com

 

[warthog5]

Optronics are the best LED's. They are the only Turn/Stop taillights that I use on boat trailers and never a failure in 15yrs. This is what I used under mine. Also thing about installing 2 of them in the transom cap area. This will allow you to see what is going on in the bilge area at night..... It just might save your life?


http://www.etrailer.com/Trailer-Lights/ ... 12CFB.html

 

[Mike S]

Thanks. I am going shopping.

 

[Megabyte]

Before marine LED lighting became popular, I mounted 4 LED clearance lights of the type typically found on over the road trucks, to the underside of both washboards.
They do a great job of lighting the deck.

Because truck lights rely on chassis grounds, I had to solder ground 'pigtails' to each housing to be able to use them on the boat.
Those lights have been on my boat for about 9 years now and they still work fine.

I like Bobby's idea of adding some white lights inside of the transom and bilge areas.
I need to add that one to my project list. :wink:

 

[warthog5]

The typical trailer light uses a contact point where you mount it as a chassis ground. That's the cheap stuff and I don't buy it.

The one's I get are epoxied where the wires come out and have a Ground wire to be connected. This is hat I use on trailers also and run a seperate Ground wire from the plug to the light, bypassing using the frame of a trailer for a ground.

But on that subject....You still need a trailer frame Ground if you have surge brakes, as the solinode uses the frame as the Ground.