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    Cool Custom LED's on My PT175

    I decided that I wanted to put some LED's on my 'ol Tracker so I pulled a couple tricks out of my tool box that I picked up from doing custom work on ATV's and such and here is what I came up with. I went with RGB 5050 LED's with a "touch screen" remote & 18A receiver. I can manually change the colors to pretty much any color on the spectrum, adjust brightness and put it in a number of different modes to change colors or strobe automatically at whatever speed I what. I've got about $60 tied up in all of it and it took me a few hours to install since this was my first time doing these on a boat.

    The pics just show a few of the different colors and where I placed the strips but I made a quick little video that goes through most of the modes and a lot more of the colors. Hope y'all enjoy!

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    Really cool.
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    UFO in the lake. Your gonna freak some people out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mrc.in.wi View Post
    UFO in the lake. Your gonna freak some people out.
    Haha flip it to Party Mode and roll with it! I went with the RGB's just to have to option to change colors for different situations, the crazy features are just a bonus

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    Cool, where did you buy the stuff??
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    that is so cool!

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    You will know where the party is...

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    And the "Best Comment" award goes to SLOAN!

    Thanks for the compliments guys. I got everything from EBay. That's where I've gotten all of my LED stuff from in the past and haven't had any issues. The receivers will eventually crap out but they'll last a while and only cost about $15 to replace. I don't want to just post us all I got out of respect for Bluewater being a board sponsor but shoot me a PM if you're really interested in the shopping list.

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    Very very cool. That looks totally awesome and that really lights up the deck. I really like the rear deck lights on the corners Im gonna have to add some lights like that to mine that really lights up the rear deck well. You did a very clean job glad to see it finally come together you have been very busy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by basstrackeroptimax View Post
    Very very cool. That looks totally awesome and that really lights up the deck. I really like the rear deck lights on the corners Im gonna have to add some lights like that to mine that really lights up the rear deck well. You did a very clean job glad to see it finally come together you have been very busy.
    Thanks a lot! The ones on the stern give a nice light on the back deck without being too bright. I've been busting my butt getting all of the stuff installed I ordered when I was on this last job haha. Still waiting on the hole saw to get here so I can get my V-T2's knocked out though. Next on the list will be white LED's for the rod locker, storage and battery compartments. I'm going to use double row 5050's so they'll be PLENTY bright in there.

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    Looking forward to seeing that to.
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    Nice!
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    Quote Originally Posted by atxtracker View Post
    Nice!
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    A nightclub on water! SICK!!! LOL

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    Travis if you can get some pics of the wiring and mounting in daylight that may help folks out some and Ill throw this up in the sticky.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JerryC View Post
    A nightclub on water! SICK!!! LOL
    What can I say? I like to party! Hahaha

    Quote Originally Posted by basstrackeroptimax View Post
    Travis if you can get some pics of the wiring and mounting in daylight that may help folks out some and Ill throw this up in the sticky.
    With everything rigged up already I can get pics of the controller wiring for sure. I could probably pull out some of my left overs to rig up some pics of the connectors though. I'll get some when I'm on the boat doing the V-T2's tomorrow or Saturday.

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    Awesome!
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    Very nice!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Skunked again View Post
    Very nice!
    Thank ya sir!
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