[meatblender]

Lots of led floods here.

http://www.solarsetpoint.com/ledfloodlight.html

 

[Gbollom]

Ok OBG and any other lighting experts, could you hook up a whole mess of these to a battery and use a charger or inverter similar to an iota for trollers. I know the point for most is to eliminate a genny, but even if you could run one 2000w inverter style genny vs a 3000w+ it would be beneficial

 

[kskiller]

I'm running seprate batteries just for my lights and i'm running mine at 24 volts and its 9 amps actual with the volt meter at 24 volts. I was worried if i ran them off my troller the lights they would dim every time i used the troller.

 

[Istickem]

Yep, you could use a converter just like you do with a troller.
Id probably do same as kskiller, quiet would be sweet.

 

[Old Bald Guy]

Ok OBG and any other lighting experts, could you hook up a whole mess of these to a battery and use a charger or inverter similar to an iota for trollers. I know the point for most is to eliminate a genny, but even if you could run one 2000w inverter style genny vs a 3000w+ it would be beneficial

You could but it would be more efficient to buy 120 volt led's.

 

[Old Bald Guy]

Ok, here are the hard numbers straight off the trusty volt meter. At 12.1 volts they are drawing 1.78amps each. At 24.2 volts they are pulling 0.90 amps each. So that means with my 2 batteries rated at 85 amp hours each(according to interstate) i have 170 amp hours of battery life fully charged and i can run my 10 lights for 9.44 hours and still have 50% battery life left or 11.4 hours and 40% life left. This is on small 24 series batteries also so the bigger the batteries you use the longer you can run. I can live with that. Like OBG once, said never trust a factory number and always put a meter on them and know for sure just so you don't do any damage to your lights or batteries.

Now the figures make sense.
On the running time calculations it would be half of what you figured since 2 12 volt 85AH batteries in series[24 volts] would give you 85AH @ 24 volts more or less.

 

[Throughthegills]

I personally would still run a generator since I run a fan. But the genny would still be loafing compared to running the halos.

Just run an alternator off of your fan.That would kill two birds with one stone.:tu:

 

[Gbollom]

Just run an alternator off of your fan.That would kill two birds with one stone.:tu:

DIdnt think of that, you could use the fan motor alternator to trickle charge the battery for the lights

 

[Throughthegills]

DIdnt think of that, you could use the fan motor alternator to trickle charge the battery for the lights

Yep.DMC on here runs and alternator off of his fan.He uses florescent lights and it runs them all no problem.:tu:

 

[Old Bald Guy]

DIdnt think of that, you could use the fan motor alternator to trickle charge the battery for the lights

As little as LED's use the alternator on the fan should keep almost keep up. The airboat guys should be able to run plenty of alternator to run LED's no problem.

 

[Throughthegills]

That's what I'm thinking too.If you start off with a fresh battery then I would think you could go all night and then some without a hitch.

 

[Gbollom]

Interesting, the LED's could really revolutionize what we do if they continue to improve! Would be cool to not even need a generator at all on a fan or airboat. Or even be able to use a smaller genny on a troller to run the converter

 

[carpsniper]

I am looking at them (the 120v) very hard. Trying to work with an American company but not getting much luck in getting return calls. But...I planned on running 2 Eu2000's, these would keep me at running just one.

Yeah, I was running two Yammie 2400s when I had a troller. Now I run just one for the lights, but it's straining it pretty good. The LEDs would make it whisper again. ...even with more lights.

Just run an alternator off of your fan.That would kill two birds with one stone.:tu:

Good point!

 

[X-Shark]

you could use the fan motor alternator to trickle charge the battery for the lights

Most hang a 100amp or 130amp Delco alt. off the Fan motor. That's not trickle charging a battery.

 

[Old Bald Guy]

Most hang a 100amp or 130amp Delco alt. off the Fan motor. That's not trickle charging a battery.

That would handle 10 LED's without breaking a sweat---

 

[Gbollom]

Interesting for sure! I hope the LED's continue to improve and get brighter and cheaper. I'll also be interested in how well they hold up, I know some of the aftermarket auto lights that are LED have had some problems with going out and from I understand it was not easy to replace one of the diodes in the light fixture

 

[Bowfish-Ninja]

Could you run an altenator off a kicker motor to run the lights? Lots of guys have kicker boats!

 

[Old Bald Guy]

Could you run an altenator off a kicker motor to run the lights? Lots of guys have kicker boats!

The kicker motor alternator-provided your kicker has one- would help keep the battery charged and might even keep up with the lights depending on how many you were running.

 

[Bowfish-Ninja]

The kicker motor alternator-provided your kicker has one- would help keep the battery charged and might even keep up with the lights depending on how many you were running.

If you motor doesnt have one, can one be rigged?

 

[Istickem]

kskiller, let us know if your getting a bulk order, Id like in on that. Hopefully get the price down for all?
thanks