Looking for some advice on tower lights

[ragboy]

Lights are good for others to see you, and for docking. They are useless out on the lake, where you need your night vision, and need to turn everything off that you can.

[Kimmer322]

I have the Dbot5 lights as well - I just changed the halogens to get rid of the pink color and they are sweet now. Also I heard people were having trouble with them catching fire so I took out the lights and added more electrical tape to the wires and all if fine now.

[ragboy]

I just got the skylon lights in from wakeside. They will be installed tomorrow morning. They are not quite as sexy as the dbot5 lights IMHO, but they look much better than I thought they would. They will be installed tomorrow, and I will take some pictures. Looks like they will be MUCH more functional.

[anhaney]

Here is some pictures.

Here is some tower lights. Let me know if you like them I can advise on how to get them. The prices shown here are higher than you can get them for. Adobe PDF page 46 Catalog page 920. For example on pricing the most expensive one is a part number 73-3555 $718.99. This place can get it for $600.00. Let me know if your interested and I will tell you how to get them here is the link.

http://www.dmpmarine.com/proofs/2007watersports.pdf

[ragboy]

The place that installs my stuff, is a lightning dealer, so it was the first I looked at. My tower uses 3inch tube and they had clamps only up to 2.5.

[da.bell]

The place that installs my stuff, is a lightning dealer, so it was the first I looked at. My tower uses 3inch tube and they had clamps only up to 2.5.

I thought you had the E tower???? If so, it's only a 2.5 inch diameter tower... Am I wrong?????

[dogbert]

You are correct about the E-tower diameter, not sure about his tower, tho.

[da.bell]

Here is ragboys rig...

http://www.tigeowners.com/forum/show...&postcount=251

That's the E Tower....

[ragboy]

I thought you had the E tower???? If so, it's only a 2.5 inch diameter tower... Am I wrong?????

No, my E Tower is 3 inches. Go to wakedesigns.com, it even says on the site, 3" tubing, and industry first.

[da.bell]

No, my E Tower is 3 inches. Go to wakedesigns.com, it even says on the site, 3" tubing, and industry first.

I don't doubt you... I am sure you are telling us the truth. I am shocked that Tige went to a 3 inch tube for the 2007 E Tower....

[ragboy]

I like it, it gives it some beef. Makes the boat look like a monster on the trailer.

[da.bell]

I thought you had the E tower???? If so, it's only a 2.5 inch diameter tower... Am I wrong?????

Or now I am thinking 2.25....

Okay, now I have to break out the old handheld calculator.... circumference / pi = diameter....

[ragboy]

OK, I am heading out to the lake, but I got the Skylon lights installed this morning. So far, hands down, IMHO, these are the better lights. I didn't think they would look that good, but they really do, and much more functional. They are def. brighter. We had the lights off in the bay to aim them, as we did with the dbot5 lights. Much brighter and better spread.

The only issue, was that the front lights aimed right behind the front tower tube. So we shaved the brackets for the front lights, and flipped them over which raised the front lights about 2.5 inches which made all the difference in the world.

Anyway, I will let you know how they do tonight on the lake.

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[ragboy]

oh, by the way, these are the 2.5 inch clamps, and you can see the good size gap in the bracket cuz of my 3 inch tube.

[CP3]

what did the dbot5 look like?