I'm looking at mounting a pair of 8" LED light bars on the front of my hunting boat. I normally use a handheld Halogen spotlight but it takes one hand away from running the motor, not real safe when your doing 30mph, loaded down running thru the woods avoiding trees. Looking to do some good mounted lights for this hunting season.

I'll be running in foggy conditions at times on the water and am concerned about the white light scattering too badly and just making a glare. Light bars are getting cheaper all the time and it looks like I can do a pair of them for under $100 bucks. The boat is already wired properly with the right size relay and fuse for them.

Does anybody have experience with these newer off-road lights? The white LED's are bright as **** which would be great when it's just clear and dark, but sometimes you can get "too bright"

Input??

 

It's hard to say, I've never used an amber LED.

I run a single bright white LED pod on my center console SeaCraft.

A lot of the commercial fishermen in my area run the big LED bars on their huge boats, and all of them are bright white, and they see some intense fog, so they must be doing something right.

 

Run one Amber and one white.

Use white in non fog conditions.

 

In foggy conditions, aim them down to reduce the scattered glare.

 

The ones I'm looking at have a snap-on filter that connects to the housings, and covers the lenses. I guess I'll just run it both ways and see.

My poling platform is 42" wide by 24" long front to back. I'm doing a curved 40" on the front of it and a 20" flood under the edge on each side. It should pretty well light up any dark area I'm in!! Might help a little while frogging but I know the LED light doesn't light up their eyes like a halogen or incandescent bulb. I mainly want the light on the platform for the upcoming night alligator hunts.

 

Some water proof 5630 led strips ran along the sides are nice and bright.
I installed wHite 5630 outside and green 5050 led strips inside on my cousins boat.
Worked out very well. We have no problems manuvering around in the boat at night.

 

We tried led for bowfishing and it sucked. It just doesnt penetrate the water as good. Anything on top will be blind though.

 

Stewart, look into seelites for bowfishing. They are the shizzzz

 

we just use shop lights. cheap, at every tool shop/auto zone and penetrate good enough for the murky crap that we bowfish.

 

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I used halogen shop lights for a long time, these things changed my mind. Being able to run them without a Genny helps... I hate the noise.