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glassman - 12/6/2007 9:45 AM
Ocean LED
I saw some infor about your products on a magazine's web site. I've been looking into installing lights on my boat. We are building a fishing boat. It is approximately 14' wide at the transom.
Here are the questions:
1) Should the lights face down below the boat or out from the transom?
2) How many lights do you recommend that we run?
3) Is blue the best fish attracting light?
4) What lens do you recommend?
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Hi thanks for the opportunity to answer your questions:
Ill answer them in a slightly different order that you asked them!
2: When it comes to deciding how many lights to place on your transom, it almost always comes down to personal choice. One of our best customers, Viking, install anything from 2, 3 or 4 in the transom, which is completely dependant on the customers choice.
Obviously 4 lights out of the back of a 14' transom would give you the best output and spread of light depending on which series of light you use.
To use Viking as a good example, they regularly install our 2010 series in either Flush-Mount or Thru-Hull series out of the transom. We have several pictures of Viking sportsfishing boats in our gallery section on the website showing the differences in light output, varying on the quantity used.
3: From our own studies, we have found that the blue light works much better for attracting fish than the coventional white lights. A scientific reason for this can be found by "googling" the subject and it has been proven to work.
Testimonials as to how effective our blue lights are on fishing trips can be seen on television on "Reel Adventures". Aswell as advertising on their show, they also have our lights installed on their boats and are currently in production on a show based around the effectiveness of our blue lights whilst fishing. They back our product 100% and have caught many more fish with them, than without!
Another customer who fishes commercially for swordfish has said that he cannot imagine fishing at night without our light; since the blue light seems to have a calming effect on the fish, meaning it doesn't fight as much when they get it on the boat, plus they can actually see what they are doing whilst catching it!
We also have many videos on our website of the blue lights on, and literally thousands of fish swimming around the back of the boat! Check out our new video gallery section of the website to see the short videos first hand.
3/4: This question goes hand in hand together since depending on where you mount your lights, varies the type of lens you may want to use.
Our standard 50 degree lens, shoot the lights beam out in a torch light pattern. The is the same for all manufactures of underwater lights. If you mounted the lights straight out the back of the transom, you would get dark spots between the lights, but the lights would go very far! For this option our Thru-Hull series would be best.
If you were to mount the lights facing down, the 50 degree lens option would give a massive halo effect, without any dark spots. We recommend if possible, to angle your lights down at 15 degrees, which also eliminates dark spots, but would be quite a costly install to build the appropriate wedge.
The 180 degree lenses enables the customer to mount the light straight out the back of the transom and achieve the halo effect. The light is diffused as it exits the light, meaning all of the dark spots are eliminated. The drawback to this option is that if the light is diffused in this way, the penetration of the light is reduced when compared to a 50 degree lens.
(If you have a small swim platform, the light output from the 50 degree lenses would meet up where the swim platform ends, thus achieving the halo effect, and having maximum distance on the light output).
As stated before, what kind of mounting option, or lens option you want, depends on what kind of effect you are trying to achieve. There are a lot of parameters to consider, and I have only scratched the surface so far in this reply.
(Another parameter to consider is that since you can run at night with our lights on; even if they are out of the water, you will get an illuminated rooster tail out of the back of your boat. This is also in the video gallery section of our website, and looks exceptionaly cool! We are the only quality underwater lighting company you will find, which will allow you to run with your lights on, without damaging your lights, or more importantly your hull! To get the biggest and best rooster "flame" the 50 degree lenses will make your rooster tail that much bigger)!
In conclusion, choosing what style is best for you is a trade off of factors. The 50 degree will give you furthur water pentration than the 180, but you will have those slightly annoying dark spots between the lights. (unless you have a swim platform)!
If it was my boat, I would go for 3 of the 2010's on your 14' transom, or 2 of the 3010's, all in a Thru-Hull style in a 50 degree lens. My color choice would also be blue since it works the best for fish, and also looks very cool!
(Be sure to check out our new green series of lights, which also looks fantastic in the water)!
OceanLED
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