Ice house lighting?

[so haaad]

Iceboy,

Are they the ones from Hong Kong? I ordered mine last week.

[Sandmannd]

Hey walldoggie, I live in St. Paul. Any chance I could check out your lights?

[Iceboy]

Yep. Wasn't sure if we were allowed to link info like that.

They seem pretty tough, though the wires coming out of them are thinner than I expected. Wired them up with some 22 gauge speaker wire running inside the top pole of my Fishtrap Guide. Looks slick.

[walldoggie]

sandmannd - yeah shoot me an email, anybody else wanna see can email me too

[email protected]

So haadd you will be very happy with the besthonLED ones, took a about a week and ahalf to two weeks. but great lights.

[crewdog]

are those the 24cm white leds listed on best hong kong. youknow what. looking at trying this myself.

[walldoggie]

mine are the 48 cm ones approx 19"

[ICE_KING]

I use headlamps on my hat and i know theres better ways to light but i am very cheap... So i was wondering if anyone use bicycle lights that they cliped to there poles and then aimed them at the ice and how much that would run me, and if your pleased or not???

[Sandmannd]

Thanks Walldoggie, you have mail.

[Cygolf1]

Gus, do you want to sell acouple of your liight set ups? I have a otter lodge and want to get it setup with lights like yours. Or can you give me the specifics of making a few of these things. Thanks for your help. RJ

[Gus]

I don't have the time to make any and try to sell but I'd help you with how I did it if you would like. Email me if you wish. [email protected]

[so haaad]

Walldoggie,

Yep, your pictures and recommendations convinced me that they were the real deal. I'm guessing mine should be here within a week. Thanks again for your posts and pictures.

[Sandmannd]

Stopped by Walldoggie's today and check out the lights. They are what he says, nice a bright. He just has the one strip and it's plenty bright. I'm puttin' mine on order tonight. I might get two and just put them on separate switches so I have extra light for tying. Thanks again for letting me take a look. Very nice guy and it's always great to meet an FM'r and pick their brains a little.

[HardH20Lover]

I have a 6 x 12 permanent house with 3 incandescent bulbs, I run them of my pontoons deep cycle battery. I tested them the other day and they draw 10 amps. I would like to switch to LEDs to get more life out of my battery. However I fish with kids and I can't sacrifice the brightness.

I see several multi LED lights on the internet, but hate to spend $75 in LEDs only to switch back to Bulbs. Does anyone know of a place to see them in operation?

[Jason Hubbard]

i was wondering about heat????do they get very hot?are you able to fold the fish house after a few hours of fishing?Or can you go right away with not letting them cool so canvas don't get burned?What are you guys using for a power supply?I think that they look sweet and i want em. any advise please... Happy Fishing

[walldoggie]

sand mannd- It was a pleasure meeting you, good luck on your order you will not regret it, and thanks for the compliments. And we will get out fishing together, hopefully sometime soon.

jason, Led lights do not give off any real heat, and you will be able to fold up your house after hours of them being on. As far as a power supply i picked up a 12 v 12 amp battery from ax man for 15 bucks.

[Iceboy]

I am running my two strips of LED's off of my Marcum battery. Works great, though I haven't tested them for run time yet. Probably pretty good - LED's are ultra-efficient!

dan

[metrojoe]

I really like the led rope lights, but they have to make them more durable. I had one string where over half the lights went out and I'm starting to lose a few here and there on the new string.

[redtrucks]

Would one 48" LED tube from Spectrum be enough light for a Otter large resort?

[so haaad]

This might be a dumb question, but can LED lights be controlled using a dimmer switch?

[Iceboy]

I think a dimmer would work, though I haven't tried one. I know that LED's dim slowly as battery power diminishes (unless they are regulated). I think a dimmer would produce the same effect.

[Paul Waldowski]

For the resort...no, I run a 3 footer and a 4 footer in my Lodge. You will need at least 2 of them.

[18 inch Crappie]

Hay, Paul Got pics?

[Paul Waldowski]

This is a shot of the top bar and the rear bar. The tube light is in the foreground, the pigtails you see are for plugging in additional lighting if you want to tan The rear light I picked up from Gander and it swivels for shining down in the bottom of the sled

This image shows the front bar that is over the door

Another photo of the top bar

Another photo of the light that shines down into the sled. This one is not wired permanently, Once I set the house up and want to use it, I simply plug it in

This photo shows how I have the wires running up into a converted cell phone charger. When you fold up the house the cord retracts

Then I thought I would throw in these photos of my Big Screen GPS with chip :

[Swimmer]

Paul, jealousy is a terrible thing! Great idea with the phone charger cord...like most people probably, I have some of these lying around.

[berfish]

Nice pics Paul.

I have got a question about mounting the lights to the poles. I bought the overhead LED's fixtures from Spectrum, the round ones about the size of a coaster for a coffee table. I will be putting them in Yukon on the poles. Two lights on the overhead pole and one on the back overhead pole aiming at the tub. I am wondering what works the best for mounting them to the round pole? Thanks.