tower lights?!?

(svt600) · (svt600) **Join Date: Sep 2008** 09-10-2008, 3:45 PM

well its time to put some towerlights on my boat(08 supra 22ssv)! i have been looking around and wow there are some very nice setups but dang there costly!! so my ? is i found this set up but im not to sure if there any good or not? has any body ever used them? if so do they light the night up good?

heres the link http://www.diywake.com/shop/shopexd.asp?id=604

Thanks Cameron

(Message edited by svt600 on September 10, 2008)

(crosenhahn) · (crosenhahn) **Join Date: Feb 2008** 09-10-2008, 3:56 PM

They look good...and I have 50 watt halogen on my boat 4 back 2 forward and it is pretty good!!! 50/55watts are what your standard driving fog lights are on vehicles. They have upgraded bulbs at any auto store to 100 watts if you need more light. But you will have plenty for surfing and parking at night.

(johnsvt) · (johnsvt) **Join Date: Dec 2006** 09-10-2008, 4:16 PM

I would try this guy mainly becasue he is doing HID lights which will be much better

http://www.lostpro.com/index2.htm

(jujube) · (jujube) **Join Date: Aug 2008** 09-10-2008, 6:22 PM

i know it won't fit on your boat, but have you seen the built-in lights on Tige's new tower?
http://www.tige.com/alphaz.php

(svt600) · (svt600) **Join Date: Sep 2008** 09-10-2008, 7:05 PM

love the new Tiges! and Ewing that guy only does the HID's with the illusion x as much as i would love to use them dont think they will work on my tower!?! thanks for the imput guys!

(johnsvt) · (johnsvt) **Join Date: Dec 2006** 09-10-2008, 7:11 PM

I figured he could make the HID's work on a lightbar.

(svt600) · (svt600) **Join Date: Sep 2008** 09-10-2008, 7:28 PM

ill call him again tommrrow and see! maybe if he gets a lot of calls for it he will make them work on a light bar!

(johnsvt) · (johnsvt) **Join Date: Dec 2006** 09-10-2008, 7:43 PM

I think they are just screwed into the illusion tower. So why couldn't you just do the same thing to a flat piece of aluminum?

(yubasanger) · (yubasanger) **Join Date: Jul 2007** 09-11-2008, 2:52 AM

Buy the light bar from diy and then use these lights.http://trailtech.net/single_hid_scmr16.html look just like the ones from Lostpro
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(acurtis_ttu) · (acurtis_ttu) **Join Date: May 2004** 09-11-2008, 6:09 AM

Here's my light bar setup on my 07, monster clamps, DIY powdercoated bar, pilot projector beam lights ( amber lens) to reduce bugs. In it for around $200

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(jujube) · (jujube) **Join Date: Aug 2008** 09-11-2008, 7:20 AM

now that is a serious tower. sweet!
is that a GPS unit i see hangin' off your w/s?

(johnsvt) · (johnsvt) **Join Date: Dec 2006** 09-11-2008, 7:35 AM

Brandon thanks I was looking for that site.

(acurtis_ttu) · (acurtis_ttu) **Join Date: May 2004** 09-11-2008, 8:21 AM

julianne, yep, it's a cheap handheld GPS. I live on a decent sized lake, and use the GPS to navigate quite a bit at nite. I mark stumps and channels. Our lake is realtively shallow. I have to ride up across the lake to get to the river I ride on and go thru a cahnnel that is 3 feet deep ( I sometimes need to find this channel at nite) the GPS helps a ton.

My boat turns into a water taxi at nite and there have been a couple of times where a deep fog roles in and I'm at a friends house...w/o GPS there is no way I could find my way home.

(Message edited by acurtis_ttu on September 11, 2008)

(hatepain) · (hatepain) **Join Date: Aug 2006** 09-11-2008, 8:47 AM

I got a really nice Fusion four light bar off of Ebay from Fusion. They were unloading a bunch of stuff a month ago not sure if they still are. I paid $145. Check profile pic to see it.

(svt600) · (svt600) **Join Date: Sep 2008** 09-11-2008, 1:47 PM

adam, witch bar did you get? i dont see it on there site it looks like you have a 5 light set up but they only have the 3 lightbar on there site now?? where did you get the lights from? i really like the set up you have looks sick!!!!!

(Message edited by svt600 on September 11, 2008)

(kenteck) · (kenteck) **Join Date: Jan 2005** 09-11-2008, 2:31 PM

Adam.
Your GPS unit will show you all of that?

(adam_balon) · (adam_balon) **Join Date: Jul 2003** 09-11-2008, 5:31 PM

call roswell and ask for mark. my supra 22ssv looks ill. the 6pack lights are so good.

(greatdane) · (greatdane) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 09-11-2008, 5:58 PM

IMO, tower lights are a big waste.

(svt600) · (svt600) **Join Date: Sep 2008** 09-11-2008, 6:05 PM

adam balon, do you have any pics of your set up? and if you dont mind me asking how much did it cost ya?

GD, why do you say that?

(wake_upppp) · (wake_upppp) **Join Date: Nov 2003** 09-11-2008, 6:57 PM

Would'nt have a boat without em'! Use the heck out of mine.

(greatdane) · (greatdane) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 09-12-2008, 11:19 AM

I guess tower lights are good for putting the boat onto a hoist/dock or trailer in the dark.

They are useless and illegal when underway.

I had them on my boat for 8 years. I used them twice and I cleaned them 50 times. Now, they are in a box and I hope to sell them for a song on WW. I will never get them again. I will instead spend the money on useful toys.

But, hey, whatever floats your boat.

(wake_upppp) · (wake_upppp) **Join Date: Nov 2003** 09-12-2008, 5:57 PM

Mine stay clean with a cover installed till I need em. Think I've cleaned em twice in two years. They are great when arriving to a drive in campsite at nite for backing in and setting up camp. Also great when arriving at night to a boat in campsite when you have to cart your gear to the site and need it to be "daylight" for a bit. LOL. And of coarse to trailer at night or for the occasional night sesh! Laws are made to be broken. I still break the speed limit and talk on my cell phone. LOL. Discretion is key. Time and place for everything...

(svt600) · (svt600) **Join Date: Sep 2008** 09-12-2008, 7:35 PM

i asked the DNR and the local cop guys on my lake and they said that i will have no problem running them at night surfing i just cant pull anyone like wakeboarding or anything like that! one even said if i have any trouble with cops to call him and he will get me out of it!! so im set!

GD i don't understand your selling yours for a song?? if i missed something what bar is it and how much do you want for them?