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Here's the newest light I have made It is made to be hooked to the side of boat it has UV on both ends and white in center. White have a remote control. This one used with the sinking green lights works great using florescent line. You just have the white light on when you need it.
nice
Those look great....Quote:
Originally Posted by Fishing Brothers
I'd like to try and make one - are you using led strips? I did some searching on ebay - would like to know what your source is for the leds...
who ever has the best prices on E-bay
You definitely have the set up for fishing at Night. Thanks for sharing.
Nice! I'm working on some lights too. Bought the clear pipe and LED's from Amazon, the rest at Home Depot. A 16' LED strip on Amazon is around $15. Before you built these lights, have you done much night fishing? Productive? I love to catfish at night so I can't wait to crappie fish at night.
Don't buy the waterproof light strips. The plain ones work best. The inside of the light has to be waterproof anyway, and the plain-led strips are cheaper and wrap a lot better around the core.
Blugras is right just get the non waterproof lights its all sealed any way. He's the one that showed me how to make them. :highfiveBut don't go fishing with him he will make you use dead minnows. nonono The LED's you want to buy are 5m long you can get the clear tubes at Lowes look where they keep the florescent bulbs.
I looked all over Lowes and Home Depot for clear pipe and they thought I was nuts. Glad to know where to look now. Can't wait to finish mine and get on the water at night. We need to do a night tourney.
Hey Thanks for the intel... I have a couple questions...
What do you wrap the leds around on the inside of the clear tube??
What do you use to weight the green ones you sink with?
Thank in advance
BC
Can't tell too much....it might spoil the fun of designing and figuring it out :-)
The ones I made go like this:
1" PVC core
Wrap leds around that
1" PVC coupler on each end (I cut mine in half and use half of one on each end, but a whole one on each end will work fine)
Fluorescent tube cover over all that
Weight goes inside - paper towels or something to keep weight from rattling around too much and to keep it at end of tube.
1 1/4" PVC caps on each end and use PVC cement or glue of your choice to secure and waterproof the end caps to the tube cover.
You can use anything for weight - as long as it's heavy enough. Needs to be in the bottom of the light or it won't float right.
The amount of weight varies and it's really just trial and error to figure out what works for your design.
Great information and lights
Really like your design and I plan to try and mimic it. Here's a video of someone making a similar light just to give you guys an idea. They use waterproof LED's which of course are not necessary since the tube should be waterproof anyway. Looks like we're gonna light Jordan up this summer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8idZ-UgJFtk