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Anyone fish at night? Out so what battery do you use for lights or accessories?
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I just run my stuff off of my cranking battery. I have 3 batteries in my boat...cranking and two for 24V trolling motor.
I do the same as above. All of my lights, besides my driving lights, are led and hooked up to the cranking battery. Very little draw and little worry of running the cranking battery dead. My TM battery powers the TM, HID driving lights, sonar and secondary bilge pump. Everything else is on the cranking battery.
Jonah - how are you getting your pole ends and lines to glow like that?
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BigTerp said:
Blacklights
I have a Nucli-eye Atom UV mounted starboard and port on the outside of my transom with a switch on my panel. Keeps the light from washing into the boat. Also flo green line. I love being up river away from civilization with nothing on but the blacklights.
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Yea man that's real nice! I guess my main concern is driving lights I've found these https://www.superbrightleds.com/moreinfo/marine-lights/4-and-one-half-round-18w-heavy-duty-high-powered-led-work-light/1222/#/tab/Specifications
They draw very little power and put out a good bit of lumens. I'm open to other suggestions. Thanks guys.
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They draw very little power and put out a good bit of lumens. I'm open to other suggestions. Thanks guys.
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I would just run the LEDs off of the 12V cranking battery. Does your motor have an alternator?
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The motor has a stator charging system that puts out 10 amps. Probably just enough to keep the battery changed to run the engine. Sounds like a good idea.
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If I did it over again I would probably go with an LED light bar for my driving lights. Compared to when I did my HID conversion, they have REALLY come down in price. Would be lower profile and less amp draw. But I really have no complaints with my HID's though. I have 4 mounted on my bow, 2 Euro beams (combo spot/flood) and 2 flood beams. I can run them independently in groups of 2. They put out 3200 lumens each at 3.5 amps per light. That's about 13,000 lumens at 14 amps. The nice thing having 4 individual lights is the adjustability of them. Depending on the load in my boat I can adjust them as necessary. I also aim them at our hunting spot to set decoys and flip them around when backing down the boat ramp to light the way. I've yet to run my group 27 battery dead yet running them. The most I've ran them in one outing is probably 2 hours or so.
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Wow those are bright. Thats kind of what I'm looking for.
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They are. I'm sure you can get LED's with just as many, if not more, lumens though. These are a more DIY approach, which i enjoy doing. LED's would be more plug and play. With these I bought halogen housings and converted them to HID by buying the ballasts and bulbs. I think I have about $150 wrapped up in everything including wiring and relays.
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DIY is my middle name I'm looking for bright lights that won't kill a group 27or 34 battery while out for a night maybe 4hrs of use[emoji6]
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If you're interested, below is the forum post where I found the mod. I didn't have to do any of the cutting of the housing on the 4 that I did though. The ballast fit fine inside the light housing without issue. I don't remember the specifics of the kelvin rating of the bulbs I got or anything, but can dig up that info. if you want.
https://www.mudmotortalk.com/mmt_v2/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12884
https://www.mudmotortalk.com/mmt_v2/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12884
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Yea thanks! I'll check that out.
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This has some great reviews with pictures. It seems to really put out some serious light.Capt1972 said:
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Texas Prowler said:
That looks like a great deal!! You can never go wrong with Amazon reviews either.
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Yea it does sound like a good deal. I'll put those on my list.
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got one on my truck, its amazing! less than 5 amps if I remember right.Texas Prowler said:
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That's really impressive! Bright and energy efficient. Sounds like the way to go.
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