LED Cockpit Bulbs (I know, GROAN!)

Thanks, Thanks, Thanks, Thanks!!! LOL yeah and SOOO much better than the Aperion Tri-Lights
 
Thanks yeah we had them custom made, its a new material that the water passes right through and won't mold. The name escapes me. The color pattern and the Piping was the Admiral's choice, I aint too good wit dat stuff LOL. Please excuse the nasty dirty seats, these were taken as we were taking it out of winter storage. If the Admiral knew I was posting them I'd have to walk the plank.

I don't want to hijack the thread but

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Ok, all 8 lights are IN!

EASY job. The hardtop lights already had watertight spade connectors. I simply sat down and put the female ends on the 4 lights for the overhead, unscrewed the old lights, plugged in the new and snapped them back into the hole. PERFECT fit and the new lights have a much more modern quality look.

The 4 lights around the cockpit didn't have spade connectors for some reason. There I just cut them off and installed the male ends. A little awkward as there wasn't much extra wire but not bad when considering how most boat projects go. BTW, I learned (the hard way) that LED lights have to be plugged in the right way or they don't work AND that you can't assume the black wire from you boat always mates up with the black wire from the light fixture. They don't, and you'll find that out while working with the absolute most inaccessible light. :smt021

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I just installed all new Lumitec Shadow fixtures. The good thing is they work great! The bad thing is after I would sung up the screws, I would hear a noise. Turns out that was the lens cracking! WTF??????
 
I think he's referring to the "Shadow" model vs the "Mirage". I installed the Shadow and was extremely carefully after reading on here that someone cracked it when tightening down the housing. Fortunately I didn't make the same mistake but I can see how someone could.
 
Their customer service made it sound like I did something wrong. I just think these are too fragile. They affected to send me new lights for $50 each out of compassion...
 

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