LED Rope lighting ???

[Paul Waldowski]

Any one installed this in there portable??? How does it work for you and how much did it cost. Looking for some alternatives to the lantern this year. I used a headlight last year and that worked okay, but there has to be something more effective.

[hitthebricks]

I tried it and found it drew a lot of power for the amount of light it gave out and Being in my late 40's and my eyes arn't what they used to be, its kind of useless for me except for a ambient light source. The rope is also fairly stiff to work with. HTB

[Surface Tension]

Paul, late last ice season I was looking into leds that replace the 1156 bulbs. This is an application for camper lights but would be perfect of the ice house which is what my intension are also. You can get them in a cluster of like 20 leds and the draw is far less then a regular bulb.

[Valv]

You should put some on the outside of your boat, blue color, add some huge woofer speakers inside, put a large wing spoiler on back of boat, install spinner wheels on trailer, and have air shocks bounce up and down.

You should also wear a very large gold chain with big pendant, and very baggy pants.....

"Yo' Po' watsup man"

Oh boy, I can feel the axe coming down on me for this.....

[fiskyknut]

Val, what do you mean the axe.....it's hammertime.

Paul, do a search and find a place called platinum lighting. They have the good 40 below ropelighting and all the gizmoes to rig it in all kinds of ways. I've seen boats and fish huts rigged with the stuff and it's way cool.

fiskyknut

[Paul Waldowski]

Val,

I knew it was just a matter of time before you went over the edge

Thanks guys I will see what I can find. Still in the planning and experiment stage

[Walleye Guy]

Last year I switched to a 12 volt flourescent treble light. Bought it over the internet for like $20 on the advice of an electrical engineer. It worked awesome and draws very little current. I could position it over the holes in my fish trap. I also had times during early ice where I positioned it behind me because the walleyes didn't like the light shining right down the holes.

Beats a lantern. I would highly recommend it.

[Jeremy airjer W]

Walleye guy, how about some more info on the fluorescent lights. Brand, Watts, single or double tube, and how well does it work when cold?

[ChuckN]

I've been using flourescent trouble lights in my portable for years. Hardly any draw, and the light is great for charging up those glow lures!!

I find mine at some auto and hardware stores for about $12. They have about a 5' cord with alligator clips and a cigerette plug.

I run the wire through the frame of my Otter and tape the light to the ceiling of the house and leave the light there permanently. I add a piece of foam between the house frame and the light to absorb the shock of the bumps while traveling across rough terrain too.

airjer - They don't work the greatest in extreme cold, but on the roof of the portable with a heater running these lights work great (heat rises of course). For watts, I don't know. Single tube typically. I can run the light for at least a couple hours on a fully charged small depth finder battery.

[DigitalFisherman]

I picked up LED clusters from a marine supply store and they work very well. The light clusters are about the size of a match box and contain 3 LED's. We have five of these in our Yukon, controlled by three toggles, powered by a vexlar style gel cell and they light that house up like a christmas tree. I connected the lighting battery up to charge indicator after a long weekend on Red last year and it was still 90% charged.

[Walleye Guy]

I would have to dig out my ice fishing stuff from the garage attic to get you the name and the brand. I picked mine up at a local auto parts store for like $14. I am pretty sure they are readily available. I have had no issues with the cold effecting the performance. I have a 2 man fish trap and the rising heat proabably keeps it plenty warm. I have run two 6 hours nights of fishing on one gel cell with no issues.

[crappiejigger]

I see they have some small portable LED lights that will velcro to the window flaps of otters , fish traps etc, that have velcro window flaps. If you do a search for Fish House Supply then click into there 12 volt lights page you can see them.