LED lights installed on a 2011 SX240 (picture heavy)

[robert843]

So I went ahead and in stalled 5050 LED lights on the interior of my boat. I also installed 4 Kicker KM LED speakers as well. I originally was going to just do the cup holders as I liked the indirect lighting of that project but opted for more of a whole boat install yet keeping it as indirect as possible. I put 2 strips under the edge of the rear seats to make sure to keep the light down, one under each of the consoles on the sides, One in each cup holder directly in front of the helm, one under the jump seat on each side of the bow, plus the four speakers. All the lights are under some sort of edge which limits the upward light leaving plenty of visibility at night. I disconnected the courtesy lights on each side and tapped into them for power which also means I now use that switch to turn the LED lights on. I don't feel like I lost much as on the SX240 there are only 2 one in each console and the LED's are now brighter in those spots then they were. Best part of this project is its cheap only about $50 in parts minus the speakers to pull off. I went with single color 5050 lights as I hate soldering and had no desire to solder all those connection and honestly I figured it would mostly stay in one color for me anyways. The speakers are RGB but I only connected the blue for now but may change it at another time.

 

[robert843]

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[Andy S]

@robert843 nice job.

 

[veedubtek]

Looks good buddy!

 

[Retired37]

looks really nice

 

[DJMattyT]

Looks great. I can't wait to uncover my boat in a few weeks and do the same thing! I have all my LEDs sitting in a box

 

[Jasonsbiz74]

going to look great out on the water

 

[2nazt]

@robert843 that looks awesome! Giving more ideas now.

 

[shane hric]

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Awesome, it looks good. I am also getting the LED JL audio speakers in blue and plan to add some minor interior courtesy lights. I may hit you up for some tech advice.

 

[BMF JK]

SWEET !! Nice look

 

[shane hric]

So I went ahead and in stalled 5050 LED lights on the interior of my boat. I also installed 4 Kicker KM LED speakers as well. I originally was going to just do the cup holders as I liked the indirect lighting of that project but opted for more of a whole boat install yet keeping it as indirect as possible. I put 2 strips under the edge of the rear seats to make sure to keep the light down, one under each of the consoles on the sides, One in each cup holder directly in front of the helm, one under the jump seat on each side of the bow, plus the four speakers. All the lights are under some sort of edge which limits the upward light leaving plenty of visibility at night. I disconnected the courtesy lights on each side and tapped into them for power which also means I now use that switch to turn the LED lights on. I don't feel like I lost much as on the SX240 there are only 2 one in each console and the LED's are now brighter in those spots then they were. Best part of this project is its cheap only about $50 in parts minus the speakers to pull off. I went with single color 5050 lights as I hate soldering and had no desire to solder all those connection and honestly I figured it would mostly stay in one color for me anyways. The speakers are RGB but I only connected the blue for now but may change it at another time.

@robert843 what did you use to place the LED's inside the speakers? My towers don't come with LED's and I wanted the same look as the inner LED's?

 

[robert843]

@robert843 what did you use to place the LED's inside the speakers? My towers don't come with LED's and I wanted the same look as the inner LED's?

I bought kicker km led speakers and replaced the stock ones with them.

 

[txav8r]

Looks nice @robert843 . Be aware that the 5050 chips is 3 chips combined. And if you use it as a single color, it is 1/3 of the draw vs the 72 W per 5 meters. So that means your only using 24w per 5 meters or..., .06w per chip.

 

[robert843]

@txav8r Thanks mine are only the single color so not sure if it applies the same or not mine are not RGB only the speakers are but I only hooked up the blue on the speaker well. Thank you @txav8r and @Bruce for the help as well!

 

[txav8r]

@robert843 , an SMD 5050 chip contains 3 chips, regardless of whether RGB or single color. The difference is that if your flexible strip is a single color, then all three chips are that color. I misunderstood and didn't read your post correctly. You were talking about your speakers and I thought you were talking about the 5050 strips you installed. Even a 5050 single color, still has 4 solder dots on the ends of the strips. One to each color, in your case, all the same color, and one power wire. If you were to wire this yourself, you would solder all three together into a single wire and then the control wire separate, with a two wire setup. You have 4 wires in an RGB setup. So I take it that your speakers are RGB and you have only connected the blue chip with the control wire for a two wire setup?

 

[robert843]

@robert843 , an SMD 5050 chip contains 3 chips, regardless of whether RGB or single color. The difference is that if your flexible strip is a single color, then all three chips are that color. I misunderstood and didn't read your post correctly. You were talking about your speakers and I thought you were talking about the 5050 strips you installed. Even a 5050 single color, still has 4 solder dots on the ends of the strips. One to each color, in your case, all the same color, and one power wire. If you were to wire this yourself, you would solder all three together into a single wire and then the control wire separate, with a two wire setup. You have 4 wires in an RGB setup. So I take it that your speakers are RGB and you have only connected the blue chip with the control wire for a two wire setup?

The speakers do have the 4 wires you are correct I only grounded the blue wire and sealed the other three in the water tight case that came with the speakers. The 5050 single color only have two solder points a positive and negative that run all chips. That's the reason I chose those I hate to admit it lol but out of the fact I didn't want to solder four points per strip. All three chips are connected to the same ground and positive wire but all three run so you correct I'm running full wattage with a single color but the speakers are pulling 1/3 which is something I had not thought about which is good to know as you pointed out in another thread I'm probably running close to my max on the fuse for the courtesy light so hopefully that keeps me under.

 

[txav8r]

I edited your post to show the full image instead of the thumbnail.

 

[robert843]

I edited your post to show the full image instead of the thumbnail.

Thanks I tried to and it was putting it in the middle of the reply for some reason.

 

[txav8r]

Your cursor was in the middle for some reason then. It happens. Just delete the pic and mice the cursor to where you want the pic and reinsert full image.

 

[bzurek157]

@robert843 how do you like those kicker KMs? Do you have an amp on them or straight from receiver?