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there are babies yeah finally got around

to working on the headliner project I

put it into a grid so I could take each

piece down and I'll show you that on

another video but I've got the center

board and I didn't want to take up a lot

of room but I wanted to add a lot of

light to the cabin so I went with the

hell of marine surface mounted strip

lights the LEDs now these come I got

this in the white and the red there's

about five things you really need to

know about LED lights and I'm gonna go

over those with you now now one of the

things here is I wanted like I said I

want to be able to take this down so I

used Spade connectors when I hook the

wires up so I could unplug them and take

the strip down and get into the other

things now important thing is it's

simple the wire I mean look at here's

what I did all right so here you can see

guys these are the these are the wires

coming from the old light and here are

my two new lights it's just as simple as

taking the blacks and putting in one end

of this Spade connector and the Reds and

to the other end of the Spade connector

and I did alternating now I can take my

lights down and work on things and it

all tucks up inside here very nicely and

since the fixture is reverse polarity

protected I don't need to worry if

somewhere down the line this gets a

little mixed up the worst that's going

to happen is the lights not going to go

on it's not going to burn anything out

so that's one of the first things you

need to know is it reverse polarity

protected the worst that's going to

happen is if you have it hooked up wrong

is the lights not going to go on it's

not going to burn out the lights or burn

out the fixture the next thing is

warranty well these have got a five-year

warranty

most lights and fixtures you don't have

a warranty at all

the other thing is the switch and this

is really critical most of the time the

lights are gonna or the fixture is going

to deteriorate because it has a standard

type of toggle switch like this

well those we're out on the he'll a

marine light the switch is totally in

case let me show you a little closer see

this switch is completely enclosed it's

completely sealed here's the other part

of it here I took this off so you could

see how this works what this is is a

reed switch and there's a little magnet

in this part of the switch see that

little dot and that moves across a

printed circuit board assembly which

turns it on now here's kind of an

exaggerated view of how this works

you

as the magnet moves

turn the white on in the center that's

off and the other direction is the red

so you see other LED fixtures might be

sealed but the switch is not this is a

completely sealed switch so now we're

just going to put that back on there so

you can see all right well it's on the

red the white and off that's of major

importance now the next important thing

to know is what is the IP of the fixture

it's not a computer its ingress

protection

most of the companies don't even state

what their IP is but the IP in ingress

protection is it's two numbers it's a

six well runs from one to six six being

the best and that's against solid things

like dust sand so this is a six the best

you can get the second number the seven

this is a 67 is for moisture now for

example a a five would be you get a

little spritz of water on it it's not

going to hurt anything

if it had a six index you could get

sprayed it wouldn't hurt it but it can't

be soaked now these you can use these

interior or exterior I happen to be

interior you know out in the cockpit or

something so you're washing the boat

down well with a7 which is the next one

means it can be sprayed from any angle

and it can be submerged for anywhere

from ten to thirty minutes without any

moisture getting in the next index would

be eight which means sprayed from any

angle and it can be submerged for

extended periods of time I don't know

what extended periods of time mean but

that's what I found on me and probably

four hours and I'll tell you this if you

use

this in your boat even if it's in the

cockpit or anything and it's submerged

in water for more than 30 minutes

you've probably got more problems in

just the water all right the next thing

we need to talk about guys is a CRI well

what is a CRI it's a color rendering

index what that is is the ability of the

LED to replicate light in color

accurately so let's say the Sun is a

hundred well an LED a quality LED is

going to be 80 to 90

these are 85 so foods going to be more

vibrant skin tone is going to be more

natural color is going to be more

realistic in general so an LED with

lower CRI let's say 75 or even an 80

well that's going to have more of a dull

washed out color to it the higher C our

eyes like this are used in surgical

applications art galleries where color

is very important offices now I live and

work on my boat so having a high CRI is

important for me to have that more

natural feeling to it now most LED

lights or LED companies they don't put

what their CRI is so with le with hella

marine you know what you're getting so

those basically are the five things that

you really need to know about LED

fixtures and lights the one I like is

the reverse polarity protection five

year warranty the switch this is

fantastic completely sealed switch the

IP ingress protection I know I've got a

good solid fixture here the CRI the

color rendering index

it's fantastic and you don't look at

this slim profile it's not taking up a

lot of room in the boat and look at the

difference here this is the lights I had

before

what I have now

by having this strip down the middle

I've eliminated a lot of the shadows

that you get from just the under

lighting here and so forth anyway guys

happy and safe boating do you your

family and friends