Hey all I fish mainly at night and want to run some LED strips down the side of the kayak. I have looked at the pre made kits and they are expensive as hell, for less functionality. By the end of this I should be able to white blue, red, green and white leds with remote control and bluetooth functionality.
Plan is drawn out terribly in my paint attachment however I will aim to (repeated for both sides of yak):
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Trim LEDs to around 3m each and attach to kayak with double sided 3m adhesive tape.
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Cut the original 5 pin connector off the LED lights and strip the 5 wires back.
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Cut the male head off of 2m of extension cable and strip 5 wires back.
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Measure and drill hole approx level or slightly behind rear hatch and feed through 2m cable cut end.
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Solder together 2 and 3, electric tape and heat shrink.
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Use splitting power cable to connect to female side of extension cable.
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Cut the end off another extension cable and screw wires into LED controller.
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Attach LED controller to roof of kayak somehow (current idea is to superglue strong magnets to roof of hull and rear of controller but unsure if magnets will damage electrics)
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Get a power connector to fit controller and attach to FPV power in hatch
Fool proof?
Any thoughts please chime in, I have a habit of stuffing things like this up!!!
Parts:
5 pin extension cable x3 (some for spares): https://www.aliexpress.com/i/2024038085.html
Posted by naikii