Boat lighting???

[ndwiginton]

I am looking at installing speaker ring lights and underwater lights on our 242 LS. Trying to decide on whether to go with a solid color or RGB for all of it. I know RGB will be more expensive and require more work to install but I don't want to go with the solid and end up wishing I had RGB. Any input is appreciative! thanks

 

[Scuba_ref]

Is there really that big of a price difference between single color and RGB? I recently purchased RGB cup holder rings and RGB strips that are waiting to be installed in my boat. I don't recall them being much more in price and definitely not enough to think "hmmmm maybe I should go one color". Who knows, maybe I end up really liking one color over the others but I'd never know without having the flexability of selecting whatever color I choose.

I can see a need for having a dimmed red cockpit light setting with the right music for me and the wife - wink, wink, but a very bright blue or white when my teenage girls are on the boat with their "friends"!

 

[ndwiginton]

I can definitely see your point in all of that. Thanks

 

[robert843]

Price point wise the lights are about the same work and hard ware wise its it is more. If just doing speaker rings it wont be to bad but if doing strip lighting in the whole boat it will be a lot more work than single lighting if your soldering your own connections.

 

[BigN8]

RGB would mean 12 solders at every location. It's a lot of work. I would not go with RGB for the underwater light. Really the only 2 colors that look good in a lake are white and blue.

 

[DJMattyT]

I had blue led courtesy lights on my boat so I decided to just tap into them to add all my lighting thinking it "would be easier" but I ended up having to rerun every wire because I wanted a controller to do effects on my LEDs. RGB is nice but typically people have more problems with them, maybe not in this group but I just know there's issues involved.

 

[Juwann Smith]

I have a 2016 ar 240 trying to find out if you guys had a hard time finding 2 spot to place your underwater lights on The back I brought to shadow caster leds

 

[Summers420us]

I have a 2016 ar 240 trying to find out if you guys had a hard time finding 2 spot to place your underwater lights on The back I brought to shadow caster leds

I know this is old thread, but I have the same lights and working on installing on '18 242 Where did you end up putting the pucks? How did you wire it? Did you buy separate controller?