Underwater Lights (LED)
 

Anyone have any experience or knowledge of any brands of these?

I keep finding OceanLED when I do any searches.

I am interested in doing underwater lights, at least under the swim platform on my boat, but probably around the entire rear as well.

A few companies seem to have new ones that can change colors... this is likely what I would want as well.

I would appreciate any feedback good or bad.

Thanks!

Try a search in the General Discussions forum. There have been several threads there.

Lumitec makes a great product and are a fraction of the price of the Ocean LED w/ comparable performance.

I have the Sea Blaze 3 on my 353 and they look great.

I totally agree ! I put 3 of them on my 311. you can see them approx. 50 feet back in clear water.
There are 8 LEDs per light .... 4 blue and 4 white .... you put blue on by itself or white (which almost looks green underwater) or both blue and white which gives you a H.I.D. look .... which is very white.

We had 5 Trojan 10m lined up with OceanLEDs and mine .... The 311 prevailed ..... by approx. 10 feet.

The light is made in USA and is a lot more rugged ... it has a metal housing where the OceanLEDs are plastic.

These pictures were taken by a cell phone .... and the water wasn't exactly clear ..... it was approx 9pm .... these are just blue only ....


Good Luck !!!

Jeff

These guys were at the Annapolis Boat show last weekend,

http://www.shadow-caster.com/

They had their biggest/brightest lights on sale for 600 per. The display they had set up would literally blind you when the lights came on.

I talked ot the guy for awile, they were a bunch of boaters with electronics background who saw a need for a better solution to what is offered now.

I think they got it right, The lights are very solid feeling, all stainless steel, billet cut out, all the LED's are matched in each light to have the most even, bright light possible. He had tons of pics of his lights in various water conditions and they looked awesome.

I don't work for them and are not affiliated with them in any way, I also can't give anymore info then what I got from talking to the guy. IE no first hand info. But they seemed like the best thing price/performance wise I have seen so far. So it is definitely worth checking out as an option for someone in the market for underwater lights.

The Shadow-Caster co-inventor is a good friend of mine (we both are mechanical engineers). We used to work for same company and we did military electronics so they are very well engineered and designed. Like macjazzy said, they didn't make them to get rich, they wanted a better light and IMO they did it. I am not affiliated wih them in anyway, just friends wih the guys. A wakeboard forum bought like a dozen underwater lights and did a scientific study . I don't want to step on any toes, if allowed i can post a link to it. Interesting reading.

Has anyone seen red underwater lights?

SC (and some others) have red lights and they are actually kinda cool, lights up the water and give s blood like eerie glow to it.. Not quite as bright as blue or white because the red wavelengths get absorbed more by the water but still kinda cool if that color matches theme of the boat.

Do you know of other companys than SC? Some maybe with pictures. My buddy has a 31 red and wants to do underwater lights, blue looks awesome but doesn't match. Red would match but is hard to find and might not be worth it if you can barely tell. I told him do Blue because at night, you cant tell what color your boat really is.

Happy Hours, I would like to check out the link you mentioned. Being as it is for a wake board forum, I don't think it will step on any toes here. Not to mention LED underwater lights are a hot subject here, so the more info available the better for people to make choices.