I’m hoping someone knows of an underwater light bar, similar to the off road vehicles, that can be used on a boat for flounder gigging. I’m looking for something extremely bright.
All I found to date are 2-10 leds, I’m looking of a 20-50 inch light bar fully submersible and can withstand some salt.
Any ideas?
I can’t believe this doesn’t exist.
If no ideas, any alternatives that people know of.
Much appreciated!!!
Car Lightbar + loads of Epoxy maybe?
That’s actually probably a good idea.
wow, great idea, although a major concern would be the glass to inside light bar, so would definitely prefer something that’s out there.
Well, how about some LED tape? You can get strips that are waterproof and very bright, and as many LEDs as you want. The tape can be cut to length or extended with connectors to be as long as you need.
Great idea, although will it have any throw? Can you send me a link to a strip that is extremely bright?
Thx everyone!!! Just can’t believe something like this doesn’t already exist.
“Throw”?? I’m no pro gigger, but IIRC flounder gigging takes place off the front of a Jon Boat in “wading deep” water. At least no deeper than your gig + your arm.
With that in mind, and factoring in the ooky, Rotten-Cat-Urine Green and Lurid Lavender Cree color rainbow, you could take a piece of 1” square Al tubing & use screws & heatsink epoxy to fasten as many LEDs as you can afford to it, then cover them all with TIR optics. The widest I’ve found gives a 120° beam, which might be too broad for you, but they come in various beam angles (I like 60° for EDC). If you really need throw (say, for travel to & from the gigging grounds) just use a couple-three 10° ones intermingled with the rest. Some of the higher-end TIRs create an elliptical beam which would let you maximize breadth of flood with minimal overlap.
You could DD them by wiring them in a 3S (to cover your 12v supply) and however-many P configuration. (E.g. with 1” spacing, 3S6P would give you a ~20” bar, 3S10P => 30”) Do the math & add whatever current limiting technology you prefer, or let the natural resistance of the wires & connectors fight the water for heat dominance.
Obviously there’s a little-bit more to it than I could cover in a post on a chat room, but there you go.
HTH…
When it all works, “pot” the works in high-end clear Epoxy resin, hang mounting tabs on the ends, wire & bracket your boat & Bob’s yer Uncle!
EDIT: I’m assuming you’re handy… If you have bags of cash to throw at it, there are many options already on the market.