homemade underwater led light pod
 

So im gonna take this build to the next extreme. I have been studying leds for the past couple weeks and Ive decided to make my own underwater light pod. I just ordered 3- 5 led assemblys and im gonna put these light together and build a acrylic housing around them. If you buy the led lights seperate they are pretty cheap. At work we have been using white 3/8 acrylic and clear 1/4 inch acrylic on some of our projects. We have a special kind of glue that we were sold by NORVA plastics that actually water proof and structually weld joints its applied to. the unfortunite thing about the light housing is that once glued together it can not be accesed, which really isnt no big deal beacause your 300 and 400 dollars units cant be maintenenced either. It will be transom mounted and maybe glued on using the same technique the transom saver product uses that MJ posted earlier. I feel like this pod can be very easily made to be durable and last a long time. Give me som opinions fellas!! It not that I cant afford to buy a base line led pod, its the fact that I made it.


This pod pictured was made by a guy on THT he has had this light mounted on his boat for almost 3 years with no issues. You can purchase just the leds for about 20.00 dollars. I will get the acrylic from work

Kracker the whole time i's readin' yer post I's thinkin' about the guy on THT...I think he's sellin his now and turning a nifty lol profit on 'em...

Pete's got lights on his...awesome sight runnin across Charleston Harbour last year at night...:clap:

Looks like a nice project. Just curious, are the LEDs functional at all, or is it just aesthetics? I mean, are they useful for certain fishing techniques or just a look good thing?

I fished on a 25' foot Gradywhite drum fishing at night one time. It had transom lights and it was the coolest thing and very useful for boating the fish. I also do some overnight shark trips here out of va beach. One night my buddy brought his cheap float light just for the hell of it and within 2 hours we had spanish mackeral buzzing through the light eating small baitfish. With the bio- luminesence that night it was cool to seem them green streaking through the water. So yea it has fishing uses. And of course it looks good at the dock. My leds are cool white color so they will be a conservative white instead of all them crazy colors some boats have.

so where are you getting the LED's from? What kind of money for the the light strips?

Looks cool. And on the stern the white light would certainly be legal. Not sure how much I'd use it, but I cannot deny that it looks really nice. :clap:

I will take 5. :clap:

Also this glue, can I use it to glue a broken piece of lexan back on a windshield?

http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...142.htm#photos

heres the link for just about any led you can think of. even cabin light replacement bulbs.

a couple more pics of his design. He used a high output led with a plug. He could not cut the plug off because that contained the electronics for the led.

what has me intrested in all this underwater light stuff was a boat I seen from miami about 8 years ago before this led marine thing was really popular. This boat was fishing the same tournament my brothers boat was fishing out of pirates cove,NC. We walked by this boat on the way back to the big tent to grab some more food and beer. This thing was lit up like a christmas tree and looked awesome and I remember seeing the stack of money on the table inside the salon where they were playing poker!!!! I always told myself I wanted a boat that had atleast one underwater led fixture.