blue light special

[captpete13]

I took these pics last night. They are blue LED rope lights mounted inside the top of my rod boxes. They make the whole boat glow blue.

[RABBITFISH]

Where did you get the rope lights from?

How are they rigged out?

They look wayyyyyyyyyyyyy coooooooooollllll!!!!!!!!!

:beer:

[captpete13]

sorry. these should be a little bigger.

[captpete13]

it was leftover from a job. A customer with a 31 Contender had me install this under the gunnals around the entire boat. I had about 8' leftover that made its way onto my boat. All I had to buy was two power chords to connect the rope lights to a power source. I used zip ties with screwholes to fasten it to the inner top of the rod box. Then I wired them both to a common switch. Now I just need some matching underwater lights.

[jjjtronics]

I LOVE IT !!!

It looks SUPER and very cool !!!!

Congrats man !!!!

[RWilson2526]

Pete, those look great.....must be great cruising around at night all aglow in blue....Cool ....

btw I think we are definitely going to try and get down that way at least one more time this year....I'll give you a shout if we are down there.

[captpete13]

thanks. That would be great to get together again before the end of the season. just give me a heads up before you come down

[genesis08]

I put in blue spots aswell this year,very similar to what you have.I mounted up under the gunnell pointing aft which realy have agreat effect !

Brian.......

[kraken]

Me like, I am going to steal that idea.

[cterrebonne]

12volt right?

[captpete13]

yes they are 12 volt.

[reelapeelin]

it was leftover from a job. A customer with a 31 Contender had me install this under the gunnals around the entire boat. I had about 8' leftover that made its way onto my boat. All I had to buy was two power chords to connect the rope lights to a power source. I used zip ties with screwholes to fasten it to the inner top of the rod box. Then I wired them both to a common switch. Now I just need some matching underwater lights.


I keep wantin' to replace the insert in my rub-rail w/rope lights...I think it'd look pretty cool goin' across the water at night...and then if you could make the lights "chase" around the boat!!..oooeee...it'd look like a freakin' UFO!!

Sure would increase nighttime visibility on the water...

[Blue_Runner]

:haha:Unidentified Floating Object

[RABBITFISH]

http://www.coastalnightlights.com/


Have you checked out this site.....He has a lot of cool stuff.......

[turbinedoctor]

SWEEEEEEEEET. Thats my favorite color. I would like those same lights in mine one day. I was reading about them a while back and they were saying that you need a resistor to limit the voltage to a certian range so they dont blow.

Did you add any resistor, how did you wire them?

Turbo

[captpete13]

they are wired directly to 12 volts. no resister was necessary. I just cut it to length and connect to power.