Thread: My DIY Night Fishing Light

Looks great. This should be a sticky somewhere.

Cool! That should work.

Looks good and great idea!!! Ill have to build a couple of those. On the lighting the 5050 lighting will have 3 LEDs to every one on the 3528(if I remember correctly). I know I have the red 5050 in my bass tracker and helped put some green ones in a buddies duck boat and they were real bright! May be something to try next time although you may have to add some batteries.

Originally Posted by arkansaskiller

Looks good and great idea!!! Ill have to build a couple of those. On the lighting the 5050 lighting will have 3 LEDs to every one on the 3528(if I remember correctly). I know I have the red 5050 in my bass tracker and helped put some green ones in a buddies duck boat and they were real bright! May be something to try next time although you may have to add some batteries.

Are the 5050 not 12v?

Originally Posted by Ztkirkpatric

Are the 5050 not 12v?

Yea they are still 12v. The difference is in the number of lights. Where 3528 has one bulb 5050 will have 3. It may not work on the little battery pack to its full potential but it should run off a 12v deer feeder battery fine. I'm by no means a expert all I can tell you is 5050 is far brighter from everything Iv read.

Originally Posted by arkansaskiller

Yea they are still 12v. The difference is in the number of lights. Where 3528 has one bulb 5050 will have 3. It may not work on the little battery pack to its full potential but it should run off a 12v deer feeder battery fine. I'm by no means a expert all I can tell you is 5050 is far brighter from everything Iv read.

I just did a little research, the 5050 LEDs are a little bigger and a little brighter. They're about 15-20 dollars a strip. I'll order a roll and build another using the 5050 to compare the difference. (Was going to build another anyways.

Don't look like blue jeans to me.

Tried the light last night, it actually worked pretty well. Had a big group of shad hang out most of the night, so we got into just about everything. Caught some big crappie, nice walleye, whites, hybrids, even a bream or two. Everything seems to follow those big schools of bait fish.

Took a video of the light in action, you can hear the shad bouncing off the pontoons.

http://youtu.be/1qr__17WckE

I want to build some lights using these strips, but have a question. Does anyone know the input voltage variance of the 5050 strips? Nominal is 12 volts but, I want to power with lightweight Li-ion cells. 4 cells gives me 12.8-16.8 volts. Electronics being so sensitive to overvoltages I dont want to start popping LEDs with freshly charged batteries.

Heck of a lot cheaper than the one I bought. Sounds like it worked too. Good job. Last year my dad told me about some guys putting out a light and spider rigging around it catching crappie. I wondered how they would power the light now I have some idea of how they might have done it.