Aux lighting for boat headlight

Fabrik8

Fabrik8

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Trying to upgrade the front light on a bass boat, which is currently a compact LED flood. It's too broad, and doesn't put enough light downrange to work at anywhere close to 45-50 MPH at night.

So, I need to find a small/compact LED spot that will act as a better headlight. What's out there at the moment for good products in the longer distance spot category? Aftermarket aux lights aren't my area of experience. Maybe a cube spot?

i'm not worried about mounting, I'm going to fab a bracket for whatever type of light makes the final cut. Not necessary to find a drop-in replacement or same form factor, etc.

I saw Rigid makes some stuff that may work, but is as expensive as they're known for. If I owned the boat, no big deal, but I'm just the upgrade engineer for not-my-boat.

And yes, I know that kind of light is illegal in many areas, but the lake is usually empty at night and there's been an uncommon amount of floating debris with all the rain. Big chunks of black dock foam, all kinds of random stuff.
 
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I would like to try an amber lense on my boat. I had a 20" spot/flood combo on my old boat and felt it made more glare than anything. That was a flat bottom jet drive though so I was running more rocky river stuff than a bass boat.
 
RHSCTJ said:
I would like to try an amber lense on my boat. I had a 20" spot/flood combo on my old boat and felt it made more glare than anything. That was a flat bottom jet drive though so I was running more rocky river stuff than a bass boat.
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We have an amber lens on the existing light because of all the winter fog which can get really heavy. It helps a bit, but mostly reduces usable light.
 
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