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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Night fishers: looking for a 12 volt plug in spotlight. Any suggestions? |
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Location: Contrarian Island | skip the plug in... go with a cordless LED ...many have 5 -7 hour run time... I have a Coleman LED ..it is bright and it lasts forever on one charge...
Edited by BNelson 3/8/2016 10:21 AM
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | This:
http://www.amazon.com/UltraFire-Lumen-Zoomable-Waterproof-Flashligh...
Crazy bright. See a very long way, too.
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| 2 things I did...
1) I had an extra RAM plate and ball mount. Picked up a set of those accent headlights at Wal-Mart for about $18, mounted those to the RAM plate and wired in a plug. It's hands free if I clamp it onto the ball mount or I can remove it and use it like a traditional spotlight. I'll have this directed down at the water where I unhook fish so all I have to do is flip a switch and I have a very well lit area.
2) On each side of my boat I ran a 16ft strip of 5050 RGB LEDs. Wired them into my boat and they are also switched. Hit the switch and it lights up pretty nice. I have two controllers. One is pretty standard and it just makes the lights change color, flash, fade, or stay on a set color (I've found a darker purple to be excellent for night fishing....not too bright but just enough to see follows close to the boat without spooking fish). The other controller plugs directly into the back of my boat radio and the colors flash and flicker based what is running through the speakers. When I have these lights flashing you can hardly notice it inside the boat but from a distance it looks like it belongs on the Las Vegas strip.
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Location: Already Gone | Plug-ins are very 80's.
Go strapless.
I also like what ulbian is talking about...you can do some amazing things with LED lighting these days. There are some salt water applications that are sick. Easy too.
I think I remember Esoxfly did some pretty cool stuff to sled's old Ranger. It's probably here somewhere. Good stuff.
Edited by Mark Hoerich 3/22/2016 7:11 AM
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