#TRAILER LIGHTS FULL#

Our friend Eddie owns a boat-trailer business, and has sold many red LED light strips to folks who use them to make light bars that attach to a boat’s transom, providing additional lighting. We have also opted for supplemental lighting and attached LED lights to the top of our trailer’s guide posts.

Our friend John built a beautiful Penobscot 14 and, worried that someone might drive into the back of the boat, added vertical and horizontal light strips to the back end of his trailer.

Kent and Audrey Lewisīecause LEDs draw far less power than incandescent bulbs, additional fixtures can be added without overloading the towing vehicle’s fuse box. And LEDs are less susceptible to failures caused by vibration while traveling down the road, and have a much longer life than incandescent bulbs, as much as 100,000 hours.

#TRAILER LIGHTS FULL#

Research has shown that LED lights reach full brightness milliseconds faster, which translates to as much as 16′ more braking distance for vehicles following at 65 mph. This is especially important with tail lights tucked under overhanging boats, making them harder to see. LEDs, light-emitting diodes, provide bright lighting for trailers, much brighter than incandescent bulbs, making trailer lights more visible even during daytime towing.

Submersible LED lights are brighter, longer lasting, and quicker to illuminate than their incandescent predecessors. Then, a few years ago, we started switching our fleet of trailers over to LED lights and have been very happy with their longevity, even when dunked with every launching. To prevent the lights from being dunked and their internal metal fittings from instantly corroding, we had mounted the fixtures with wing nuts on the bolts and installed separating connectors in wires. There was a time when we got to the boat ramp that we would remove our trailer lights before backing boat and trailer into the water.

Trailer lights