Hey Keith. A little change in your shrink wrapping of the wires. Before you shrink it, squirt a dab of silicone in the tubing. Then press it to the center with your fingers, around the bare wire, and then shrink it with your heat gun. That way it will help seal the bare wire inside the shrink tube. If water leaks into the pvc it won't come in contact with the wiring. I do that anytime I'm wiring something at work that is in a wet environment!
That's a great idea man . I'll start doing that . But I don't think that light needs it . There's so much silicone in big ends ,,, no way its leading lol
Best DIY fish light I've seen yet, I was actually considering something similar - saves me the research. Now I have to decide if I want to cannibalise my light, because mine has an adapter for power to go with my Jackery power station. I plan to get into deep cycle batteries and found yours in a 2 pack on Amazon at a nice cost; all my power is renewable anyway so I guess it doesn't matter what I charge, although the goal is to go solar eventually.
You have such great ideas and I really appreciate the way you go into detail on how to build things. Awesome channel and thanks for sharing. Keep em coming.
I bought cig lighter plug&socket from Amazon and used on the ends and added to the boat and just plug them in when I use the lights,fish finder,etc. I have also made a white light just like this to use while bank fishing.I took a lil plastic "ammo can" style box from Amazon and wired in a 9Ah 12v with a cig lighter socket.I also added a eye screw to the top of the light and use a 100' piece of para cord with a 6oz. bank sinker on one end to toss it up over any limbs,tele/TV cable lines to pull the light up to what ever height I want it at...up to 20-25' (length of wire to my battery). A SAE plug will work too.
I built your second version of the kayak nav light, and had to repair the strip due to corrosion from saltwater. I checked on Amazon not expecting to actually find a large and clear shrink wrap, but ended up finding marine grade with a heat activated glue that seals everyting underneath. The shrink wrap is also thick enough to protect the led strip from getting beat up. It's been perfect for two years so far. Thank you for the awesome videos.
Now I like that. I recently discovered my retail float light had the plastic case broken... So I'll be doing a light line like this. The heat shrink tube is great idea.
I work at Cabela's and so many times I get people that are brand new to fishing and they want to ask me every question under the sun. I recommend every last one of them to your channel. I love fishing and I could talk about it all day long, but I can't get productive stuff done talking to people for 2 hours, so I send em to you! I hope they enjoy their stay.
When I made mine, I used one of those cheap 2 prong 15’ light duty drop cords (I think about $4 at Lowe’s) I cut it about 4 foot from the receptacle end and wired that piece to my battery and used the remaining piece with the plug end to connect to the led light. That way I can just plug them together and I don’t have to get all the way in the back of the boat to the battery. It’s convenient also for anything I don’t want to connect permanently to my battery like a bait tank aerator or something, I can just buy another cheap drop cord and install the plug end on it for a quick easy connection.
Not for nothing but big box stores (Home Depot or Lowes or both) sell clear tubing (basically, hose) by the foot for not much money. Certainly less than heat shrink. Just buy tubing first and adjust all other dimensions to it. They also sell barbed push on adapters w thread on other end to allow sealing w a cap. Weights can be added to adapter and cap. Works great. Tubing fairly thick-walled so should cushion fairly delicate leds. GREAT VIDEO!!!
That's another option for sure , the heat shrink isn't too expensive, the plug really run up the price . I just wanted to try the tubing . The last light I made with nothing and it still works great
It'd be nice to be able to put the LED controller in there. So that way you can change the light to white green red whatever you would like. Thanks for your time. Excellent video
heck yeah next project ordering lights. made my drift bar 3 wks ago works great. just need better rod holders but i do try some of you projects thanks for the diy videos i have saved a lot of money watching you as well as getting some humor thanks brother
Man, I don’t even fish and somehow ran across your channel. I love your refreshing, entertaining teaching style. I’m sure I can use some of your hacks and know-how somewhere around the house. You, Sir, have earned another subscriber! Awesome job!! Thanks!!
Thank you . I agree some of the techniques are what interests me because you could use them in different ways . Kinda like the epoxy tumblers people make now , well that's the way they have been making wooden lures for years . They dip em in epoxy and rotate em till dry . The ideas are what's important
@@FishinNStuff well, just sayin, you certainly have earned my respect. Thanks again. I’ve enjoyed many of your vids the last couple of days. I will certainly share your channel with my work buddies that happen to be into fishing.
You are right, Buddy. They DO make everything, but I seem to see it here first. Shrink tubing is the new duct tape, that stuff is awesome. Keep up the great work! Love this channel.
Awesome DIY will be making one with the shrink wrap.. I do have a 10' 1/2 conduit I hook my light now to with a small chain and screw eye.. I place the conduit in a rod holder,,, it allows me to extend my reach of the lit circle not just straight beside the boat.. Keep up the awesome builds,,, luv'm
Awesome build im doing this.. instead of installing a plug just splice in a quick connect into the existing plug wire. Cheaper and dont have to unplug the trolling motor itll still work aswell (the trolling motor)
My bass boat has black light jacks (3) front rear and center in the top cap. I put guitar plugs on all my lights(2 black , one green flood) going to build one of yours for anchoring down for crappie at night. Gonna go a guitar plug on it after seeing your plug idea!
7:58 another good practice is to take a plastic wire zip tie and choke the wire snug but not too tight and clip off the excessive tag end. Works as a great stop instead of using Conductive steel wire that could cut into the power lines or rust over time if it gets wet.
2 things. A cigarette light plug installed would allow you to use light and troll motor at same tume #2 Just tie a simple overhand knot in wite to keep it from coming through hole in cap. Awsome light, can't wait to build mine..
Your right about the knot . I really think the silicone will hold it any way but I just didn't want to kink the wire . But I love the plug the way I made it fit the way I fish
Damn right those ratcheting crab claw PVC choppers and the best for fast clean cuts! Best tool for cutting PVC pipe ever, no mess, less effort snd fast cuts! 👍
For a neat clean install, you can run your trolling motor wires thru the deck near the trolling motor. Then put ring terminals on the wire and put them on the BACK side of the boat plug. No more wires across the bow...unless you plug in your green light to the now-empty trolling motor socket!
They have the LED Strips in Waterproof with a remote where you can make the light any color that you want. First time I seen these light was years ago - they put in an ATV Park near my house called Muddy Bottoms and the took old fiberglass CB Antennas and wrapped them the way you did the PVC with the Clear Heat-shrink,
I'm a retired engineer and my specialty was lighting systems for military aircraft. I can convert the 12-volt supply from your battery to 24 volts with a relatively simple circuit. If Fishin N Stuff will contact me I would like to make it available through him. A word of warning - silicone releases acetic acid when it cures. It will corrode copper wiring and will eventually eat through the wires. A safer sealant is hot-melt glue. It won't corrode your electronics and is waterproof.
I appreciate the knowledge buddy . If I remake this project again I'll remember that . Ol and my Email is keiff32@hotmail.com It's in my about section on my page if you ever need it
I saw that little battery and I thought you were building a self contained floater you could put out and move back to fish it. but this is cool I did one of the no cover versions last year, but I got to copy this.
You don't need the PVC end caps. Just tie down both ends of the LED strip and apply the shrink fit. You can clamp the shrink fit on the far end while it's hot and it will seal. You might have to use clear silicone or hot-melt glue on the power end to get it to seal.
If your boat does not have one it is pretty eazy to add an accessory outlet to your boat (ie a cigarette lighter socket.) It can be wired for 12 or 24 volts. It can be used for a lot of different accessories including plugging in your fishing lights.
Keith I made two tonight they probably weight bout a pound and half apiece. Stuck a piece of styerfome between the lead tire weight and the wire . Everything else is like the one's you built.
Keith, once again you knocked it out of the park Brother!!! Worth $50 in the first night's catch!!! It's time to clean, cook and chow down, Amen!!! w.w./ Oklahoma
Thank you for this video. I bought a green blob from amazon back in 2020 for $300 and it lasted less than a year. I'm going to try and refurbish it using your techniques. Thank you!
I will say , the better LED Light you buy the longer they last generally . But honestly I buy cheap lights and tend to get a couple years out of they most the time . Just make sure it's water proof
Yea, I thought it was water proof but it’s not. It has that shrink wrap. I think adding a ring of silicone around the top and bottom before heating could help water proof it. Where do yours fail?
@@FishinNStuff Rub it in... haha. Soooo I took apart the green blob and it's essentially what you built (damn near exactly). Only you did a waaaay better job and probably spent a lot less. I've spent my fair share on "stupid tax", go ahead and add this to it. I'm rebuilding it using your video.
It's a rain day up here in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦. Working in my shop with your diy videos playing. Was watching this one and just heading into town to pickup the material for one of these. It's no wonder you have so many subscribers. Well done and fun to Watch. I have a bunch of my fishing buddies watching them now and they have subscribed also. Cheers from the east coast 🍻🇨🇦.
Thank you very much for all your support , and thank you for watching . I really enjoy helping people and making them laugh , but it's people like you that keep me doing it
I always like your videos, such awesome ideas with the pole holders and fishing lights. Don't care much for the LED rigging glove, kind of odd, always use my head lamp if I need a hands free light. Keep'em come'in , always watch'en !!
Perfect timing. I was a about to go buy 2 of these type lights. YOU R DA MAN!! Like he said: if you aren’t subscribed hit that button. And before you go out and buy anything to do with fishing it would be worth your wild to scroll all of his video’s. 9 of 10 (if not 10 out of 10) times he’s got a video on how to make whatever you need’n.
for those that wanna use them on the shore by walking without carrying 4Kg of lead battery, there are lithium batteries of 12 and 24V in Amazon and Aliexpress with that DC connector so you don't even have to cut the cables, you can just connect it, and the batteries are rechargeable and come with a switch, all quite easy, they go from 6 to 30€
*Having watched four of your videos I can't tell if you're a top secret Harvard engineering professor pretending to be from the South or you're just a laid back cat trying to build stuff with as few as tools possible, lol. My wife won't let any of your channel inspired projects into the house but she's getting one for Christmas.*
I really appreciate it buddy . That's a very cool compliment . Kinda made my day but I'm just a laid back soutgeren fabricator . I have more tools than I show on RU-vid but I understand everyone don't. So I like to make stuff as simple as I can , even though that's very hard sometimes
@@FishinNStuff I was reminded of you again this morning. I am preparing the August issue of CatfishNOW which is about fishing in the heat of the summer. One article, in particular, is from Keith "Catfish" Sutton. As I made my final edits I thought of your fishing light. I bet you could also come up with some creative utility lights for fishing at night.
@@RonPresley catfishing and crappie fishing are my favorites , you might be on my very first catfish conference video . I still have the CatfishNOW decal I got lol
That Female Connector is a Quick Disconnect - most of your Laptop Computer Power Supplies use the Male End which plugs into that Female End. The Power Supplies are low cost and a wide variety of sizes - a 5 Amp supply will easily run a full strip of lights.
@@FishinNStuff I did my first light just like the video. I hooked it to my battery and threw it in the pool overnight, the next morning is when I learned the LED strips are not 100% water tight. Mutiple short circuits, a little bit of smoke when pulled it out of the pool. With build #2, I coated it with Flex Seal Clear, I let it dry and threw it back into my pool overnight. It was perfect the next morning, no issues.
Love your passion for your projects. Just found the channel and having a blast watching. Kinda like the idea of one of these lights, just for the garage. But, I might suggest when covering with heat shrink, maybe cut the ends, more like a battery wrap? Where it slightly overlaps the end. Still awesome!
Dam, you done gone and done it again! I have made a few of the first lights from your first video. I also started modifying a few , the lights don't seem to be bright enough to attract the bigger baitfish for me. I have been thinking about using the 24v light myself. My biggest hurdle has been the clear housing. I bought the clear PVC on Amazon and that stuff cost mearly as much as a kidney. I waa scouring Dupont and 3M looking for a solution, like maybe a clear liquid silicone that when sprayed or diped with an activator set up and hardened. I wbven tossed around the idea of using that clear UV hardened glue. You knocked it out of the park with the heat shrink though, I didn't know you could get it that big in clear. I have used the big stuff in black with glue pack in it for direct burial trunk line for communications, and cable TV. The clear stuff is a game changer. You da man bro. Great video and as always solid info. You are going to save me some bucks I guess I was over complicating things.
Next project for my boyfriend to build :) but I think he already had lights on the outside of the boat mounted for night fishing. He also put LED lights under the railing around the boat. They’re blue. The ones in the back are green. He’d probably want to build this too lol
Fishin N Stuff yes that’s what it’s called lol I couldn’t remember what it was called. The heat shrink tubing is impressive. I like how the whole light stick turned out!! Definitely look forward for more DIYS!
There is a way you can do that without buying another plug you can tap into your trolling motor line before the plug and use aTwo-part plug male and female it’s two conductor get it in the automotive section relatively cheap and you can splice the female side into your line side going to your trolling motor receptacle if you know what I mean and put the mail and on your light stringer I can’t draw a picture here but it’s fairly sleek
Hi, my name is George I made from watching your diy on the green under water lights, I made 2, the biggest problem I had with them is I didn’t know anything thing about the heat LED lights and I had them out of the water and they warped, pvc pipe is the wrong pipe to use, if I ever need to make me more lights I’ll use coccyx pipe which is hot water, the pvc lights did turn out AWESOME, just a little problem pvc verse pvc pipe.
Hey Fishin N Stuff fellow, here's a fishing light or spot-light hack, or just general getting power to the front of the boat, get a heavy duty extension cord with a GFCI power strip on it, however long you need it, run it from the battery, under the gun-wall, use tie wraps/cable ties to secure it, then you've got 6 plugs at the bow of your boat, I've done that with my spot light, just put a regular extension cord and changed the spotlight plug to fit, that way, you're not disabling your trolling motor ... Cheers Mate
Great video!! What's the performance difference between 12V vs 24V LED's? Brightness? I'd recommend not using wire wrapped around the cord to keep it from pulling through. On your next build, just tie one simple overhand knot in the electrical wire to act as a strain relief. I'd be interested in hearing down the road if the light started getting muck growth under the clear heat shrink... or if it's stayed clean and clear. Thanks!!!
It might but I figured I could always just cut off the shrink wrap and put on a new piece . And your right about the wire , ive tied a know in em before i just like trying new stuff . You probably don't need anything after you put a bunch of silicone in it . But a plastic tiestrap would have been a better choice
Very nice idea and built...shrink tube and plug connection were brilliant! One suggestion though, just to be on safe side and mitigating any possible lead, I suggest applying some sealing silicone to both ends of shrunken tube on the caps and then applying two short sleeves of the same shrink tubes on top of the caps so no water could ever dare to sip into! 🤓 Big thanks for your cool works!
That's a great idea . The only reason I didn't really worry about it . Is because my 2nd green light I built , I did put any cover on it and it's still working today . As long as you use water proof lights you should be ok
