kind of waited till the last minute on this for some reason but my deck is getting built on my boat this weekend and i'm trying to decide which lights to use. In the past i've used the standard halogen flood lights with the nipple and just drilled a hole in a plate and mounted them that way. I have recently thought that using those work style lights (minus the stand) would work and they would mount easily. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to mount those regular flood lights and if the beam spread will be much different from the work light to the regular flood lights?
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Any input is greatly appreciated

Thanks

Mike

it comes down to how much you want to spend IMO but the work lights if they get bump or knocked the mount tends to bend easily and the bolts holding the mount to the light tends to wiggle loose the disappears the floodlights i think are built a lil better and can be mounted better. but if you want to save money then i would go with the red work lights sold at lowes we have used the walmart and the red ones sold at lowes and the red ones are built better and the mounts are a lil smaller so there is less area to be bent

 

so the only concern you have is for the mounting brackets, is the beam spread on both of the lights going to be pretty similar?

 

Also usually the work lights have a deeper reseted bulb, meaning the light pattern will not have as wide of a angle. Plus the others look better.

 

i wanted to go with the floods anyways, i'm just trying to figure out a good way to mount them. Unfortuneately they dont have studs or holes really anywhere other than the nipple coming out of the bottom

 

Here is one that I built using econo-lights.

 

You might be able to mount them usin the same thing that people with econolite hps people do which is make brackets and bolt them to the housings

 

There arent any holes in the light fixture itself, do you suggest drilling holes into the housing?

 

Yep. I use a rubber washer between my housing and bracket. Just make sure you don't put the light housing in a bind, it will crack. If you are doing a light rail on the boat above i suggest, make all of the bracket legs, bolt to the housing then tak weld each leg to the rail, remove lights then weld away.

 

here is a link to a thread about mounting hps lights now i realize they are not the same on the inside but the mount might spark some ideas

http://bow.fishingcountry.com/forum...ums/showthread.php?2488-Hps-Light-Mounts-on-Flush-deck&highlight=light+mounting

 

here is another thread the one i originally was looking for and they have to drill into the housings also
http://bow.fishingcountry.com/forum....php?17235-lights-delivered-now-how-do-i-make-brackets&highlight=light+brackets

 

i will be using a raised platform with the lights underneath so i think if i'm able to drill into the housing i may be able to just make like 90 degree brackets for each side and mount to the bottom of the platform. thanks for the insight fellas. i'll post pictures when i'm all done with it.