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These are an underwater light that you can make at home to let you see what's in the water at night
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We'll show you how to make a DC and an AC setup of the light, starting with the AC setup first
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Okay, so this is what I got to make the lights. We're going to make all the cabling out of, just an extension cord
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We're going to leave that on. We're going to run this through the rigging tube because we're going to cut the wire open
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and we're going to attach that to an outlet. That outlet is going to go in our box
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This will probably go inside the console with that. hooked up to this which will plug into the generator then we'll use the remainder
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of the cord to then go we'll put these plugs on there and these plugs will then
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run the wire over to a piece of inch and a half PVC that inch and a half
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PVC will slide into this which is going to be mounted we're gonna epoxy these
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into our boat and then that one and a half pfc will slide into here this is
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an adapter it's gonna go from two inch to one and a half inch
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And we're gonna stick this thing on here like this. And then the one and a half in there
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we'll lightly tighten these so then we can push the one and a half down
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and push the lights down into the water as we need. So there are those for the adapters
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And at the bottom of the one and a half is going to be this right here
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And this we'll just stick up into the one and a half inch PVC
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and then we'll electrical tape around it, screw our light bulb in, and voila
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You've got this. nice bright light we're going to be using a 200 watt 3,700 lumen light bulb to stick in here
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to give us like a 20 foot range of light that's in the water
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I'm on the boat. Shit
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two feet two feet cut this flat here measure two feet and then cut it so we make a two section and then we will go ahead and put it together to make it for here and put this box with our
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electrical end to the console. Here, pull that off, Donnie
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I need you to hold on to it, but I'm holding. There you go
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We're going to have to trim this lip right here because it's too tight
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It's not letting our pipe slide the way we want it to slide, but you don't want to take this all the way off because you do want that to be able to hold it a little bit
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little bit so we're just going to shave that off of the knife we're just going to
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take our wire here we're going to send it down the tube comes out the bottom
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strip them down but connectors put our connector there and I just need to go to black to black and white to white and that's
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like that I was going to say don't you have to put that in the tube and that's going
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to just sit like that I mean really we can electrical tape it but I'm going to stick it in
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here first like that So now we've got our socket
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We're through the tube. Our wires hanging out the top. I'm just going to electrical tape this down here after putting a light bulb in it
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For this, we need to put a cap on this. And what we're gonna do, we're just gonna kind of slice down here
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so the wire kind of hangs down and then stick this cap on it and put electrical tape on it
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And that pretty much it for putting the top on here You can put a water bottle or anything just anything to keep water from coming out It doesn need to be perfectly all the way down
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It's just kind of to keep the water from going down in there, rain water mainly
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There we go. So usually you're, you've got a, a brink water
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got a brass colored screw and a silver colored screw. The silver gets your neutral and the brass
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gets the hot. So the black wire is going to go to our copper. Tighten that up. And then the white
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wire is going to go to our silver screw. there you go all right we got both of our lights set up they're rocking and rolling here
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these will just push down and then pull up we got our wires ran over here it goes into the console
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there they are right there or these are just going to plug into our receptacle and that's how we're
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going to power them that outlet is going to be run from our generator it's going to be in the back
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corner okay this is just for this is just going to be for testing purposes we got both these
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hooked up got some power here donnie's going to plug her in and we're going to see if our lights
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light up the way we want we still got to run this through our tube but that's plugged in like that
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Donnie give us some piles, who happens? Oh snap. Yeah, look how bright those are
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And those are only 3,300 lumens. Those aren't like the 3780s. They were no one put in there
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These things, boom, you slide them down. Get them in the water
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All right, and we got a green light on our outlet. So now we can take our lights
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lights and plug our lights in. Plug both of them in. Boom. So those are like that
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Both our lights are plugged in and we can actually bend these down so that we can shut this here door That shut Let me see you can get a little bit more wire in there but that how that
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going to kind of look. Clean this up a little bit. Just let these sit down. I just had some extra
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wire to put in there but there's our outlets, there's our plugs, here's our lights. It makes it a
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really nice, cheap system that is so effective, it's not even funny. A lot of you want to know why
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we're using AC, not DC lights. The reason being, because you're running a 13-foot boat with a 25-horsepower
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engine. And if you're running a GPS, you've got a stereo going, you got the engine running
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and you got your deck lights on, and then you want to put lights in the water and run all those
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two if you're gonna be out there for a couple hours that's really risking it on killing that
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battery because you're consuming so much power so the generator is basically a way to get around that
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that way you can run your GPS your stereo and all your stuff off of your battery of your engine
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and not have to worry about the engine trying to keep up with charging that battery which you know
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that's stressful on a 25 horsepower engine it's not built to make that much power
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The generator is also a cheap and effective way of running lights and stuff if you want to put an inverter
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Or you could go with a second battery. For me, everybody that I know, they like to run the generator, so it just seems to be the better option if you're going to be out there for a while
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And when you're doing it, you know, just for a hobby, you know, sometimes you may be out there for five hours, six hours
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And if you're out there for five hours and you're trying to run off a 24, a group 24 battery, it's just risk
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You know, if that battery dies, you're floating in a 13-foot boat and then all of a sudden the weather picks up
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That's not really a good place that you want to be. But if you want to use DC and you've got a larger engine or a spare battery specifically for the lights that you don't care if it dies
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then you can do pretty much the same setup by using these cheap lights from Amazon
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They're basically submersible dock lights, but you can take the same type of a PVC tubing and then add a clear tube on the end of it
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and hot glue the lights into the tube to make it sealed. But this way you can pull the whole assembly out of the holder when you're not using them
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and they will just hook up like anything else on the boat that is running off of 12 volts
