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| Originally Posted by Pascal LEDs are fine and are getting brighter with larger cluster.
The most important thing in my opinion is how they are mounted and if they are serviceable in the water. I really dont' want to put in a big hole in the transom jsut for lights since there are alternative. unfortuntaly, when installing surface mount lights, most yards still insist on drilling a hole under the waterline, instead of running the wires up on the transom and penetrate above WL with a clamshell.
if you run the wire above WL, this will allow you to unclamp the wire, unscrew the surface mount fixture and pull it up while in water if it needs replacement.
and before anyone tells me LED lasts "forever", I have a 6 month old Abyss Light with 3/4 of the LEDS dead. |
LED's CANNOT handle excess voltage. I made the mistake of plugging a 12 volt LED into a 24 volt outlet. It worked great for about three minutes, then about 3/4s of the bulbs burned out and the remaining 1/4 stayed lit. So if you have a voltage spike it will kill them. Also water in the housing will kill LED's also.