LED boat drain plug

kitos · **Posted:** Wed Aug 21, 2013 1:39 am

Hello friends,

I came across this LED boat drain plug, http://www.hurleymarine.com/Drain_Lights.html anyone installed it as it seems good to do some underwater lights without any drill to the hull.

thanks

Keith

deafwish · **Posted:** Wed Aug 21, 2013 2:55 am

Great concept, but $200?!?! :lol:

Give China a few months and the market will be flooded with $39 identical alternatives...

Capt. Hoss · **Posted:** Wed Aug 21, 2013 6:19 am

Don't even need a few months they have them out now for $59. I don't remember the site I saw it at tho.

TFD2001 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 21, 2013 6:46 am

Yea, they are definately out there for substantially cheaper than $200. I was thinking I may have seen some for the $30-$40 range even.. I know there are some on eBay I think..

kitos · **Posted:** Wed Aug 21, 2013 12:05 pm

will search on ebay than! are these safe since are plastic and the original plug is brass?

TFD2001 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 21, 2013 12:55 pm

Most of the ones I've seen are mostly brass I think..

Capt. Hoss · **Posted:** Wed Aug 21, 2013 2:04 pm

The ones I have seen are plastic, but if you can get then to make a good sealor use some rubber o-rings that might be enough. Not too sure on them as I haven't used them.

EvilZ · **Posted:** Wed Aug 21, 2013 5:35 pm

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BLUE-LED-DRAIN-PLUG-LIGHT-1-2-NPT-12V-Underwater-Boat-Waterproof-drainplug-/190649028759#vi-content

ric · **Posted:** Wed Aug 21, 2013 8:40 pm

Our Florida lake water is very tannic. My buddy installed some oceanled's on his wakeboard boat and you can barely notice em. This drain plug thingie won't work unless you have crystal clear water. An idea I've seen though is to get the SMD LED waterproof strips with the 3M adhesive backing and put that on the inside lip of the swim platform. That works really good, doesn't matter what the water quality is.

Keep in mind if that LED thing in the middle pops out, a 3/8in hole at the depth of the standard drain will flow around 100 gallons per hour.

chrisvs · **Posted:** Thu Aug 22, 2013 8:42 pm

ric wrote:

Keep in mind if that LED thing in the middle pops out, a 3/8in hole at the depth of the standard drain will flow around 100 gallons per hour.

I agree with ric, this was one of my fears when thinking of transom LED lighting. Not to mention that the light is down below the drive (if you have a single drive) so there will be a shadow cast behind the boat from the drive. For $200.00, I had these instead...

http://coastalnightlights.com/

Pretty happy with the results....

kitos · **Posted:** Sat Aug 24, 2013 1:49 am

you are right , its very danger than! the boat will sink easy!

nice LED will have a look on their site

thank you for the info friends

sachem29 · **Posted:** Sun Aug 25, 2013 11:14 am

There's no danger in having a drain plug light! I've had mine on now since the beginning of summer and I sleep very well at nite.
My lake is cloudy but the light illuminates the area around my outboard just fine. I'm very happy with this product and would gladly do it again on another boat. I'm also glad I didn't have to drill through the hull, and if I sell the boat I can transfer the light to the new one with ease.
IMO many more pros than cons.

kitos · **Posted:** Mon Aug 26, 2013 11:56 am

which one did you bought? thanks

sachem29 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 26, 2013 6:57 pm

kitos wrote:

which one did you bought? thanks

Go to http://www.boatlightsus.com look up shop led lighting then go to clearance items and look up the max beam drain plug light blue.

kitos · **Posted:** Tue Aug 27, 2013 1:35 pm

thanks!

www.iFourWinns.com

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