Easy light board

[Easedalenovice]

Originally Posted by 69cmw

Plumbs, eco-trailer.co.uk, sell a resister that you plug the tailboard into, if you google it, you will see it,
I used 1 and it works

Or I could just be happy with the mag lights I bought for £18 and not get involved with all the faff. But thanks for the heads up.

I suppose it is a case of using a simple item that works fine rather than complicating things for little or no benefit

[Easedalenovice]

Originally Posted by 69cmw

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This sorts the led issues some car have

So £70 for an additional item to faff with or just use the mag lights I bought for £18 and perhaps replace a bulb on occasion.

The title of this thread is Easy light Board. Not complicated Expensive light board

[Easedalenovice]

Originally Posted by mick

That’s because your not clued up on the Disco my leds flash fine

I am sure that is wonderful for you

[Trello]

Originally Posted by Easedalenovice

no more poking a long light board into the car

I really like the idea of not having to remove your lightboard, but, as ShinyShoe intimates in #5 (I think), it's difficult to envisage where your lightboard is situated so that it isn't damaged when you put your boat on and off the trailer. Could you put up a photo so that we can see how it all works?

[Orwell boy]

Originally Posted by Trello

I really like the idea of not having to remove your lightboard, but, as ShinyShoe intimates in #5 (I think), it's difficult to envisage where your lightboard is situated so that it isn't damaged when you put your boat on and off the trailer. Could you put up a photo so that we can see how it all works?

My led autolamps units in situ .

[Trello]

But where's your number plate?

[Pikey Dave]

Originally Posted by Trello

I really like the idea of not having to remove your lightboard, but, as ShinyShoe intimates in #5 (I think), it's difficult to envisage where your lightboard is situated so that it isn't damaged when you put your boat on and off the trailer. Could you put up a photo so that we can see how it all works?

Not the best photos, but you get the gist. The lights are on retractable arms that tuck in under the hull when retracted. The lights are submersible by design and are still going strong after 8 years. They are LED & don’t throw any dash errors. The lamps and number plate arrangement are all road legal. The trailer also has amber side markers built in.

[Orwell boy]

Originally Posted by Trello

But where's your number plate?

Well i have three choices ,i have a short lightboard (no indicator lights ) which strings between the lights with the bungees (led number plate led,s running from pp9 on back )
Or ...i fit same board to a frame high up

or thirdly i push in behind back jockey seat going local

or finally i put it in my boot so i can tell the officer it just fell off and i lost the bungee

but yes the number plate is the issue ,but as i have said before on here ,living near felixstowe port there are hundreds of lorry trailers with the number plates swinging on bungees on the containers ,so i am not sure this is easily policed !

Remember you can have 1 metre of load overhang after your lights

[Steve509926]

Originally Posted by Pikey Dave

Not the best photos, but you get the gist. The lights are on retractable arms that tuck in under the hull when retracted. The lights are submersible by design and are still going strong after 8 years. They are LED & don’t throw any dash errors. The lamps and number plate arrangement are all road legal. The trailer also has amber side markers built in.
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Thought that was a speed camera photo, then I realised your on a ferry!

[Pikey Dave]

Originally Posted by Steve509926

Thought that was a speed camera photo, then I realised your on a ferry!

That was on our way to Dugi-Otok in Croatia 2017

[Steve509926]

Originally Posted by Pikey Dave

That was on our way to Dugi-Otok in Croatia 2017

Nice one

[Matt]

Originally Posted by Pikey Dave

Not the best photos, but you get the gist. The lights are on retractable arms that tuck in under the hull when retracted. The lights are submersible by design and are still going strong after 8 years. They are LED & don’t throw any dash errors. The lamps and number plate arrangement are all road legal. The trailer also has amber side markers built in.

This is useful, ta. Have been trying to work out what to do with the number plate without it all ending up looking a bit heath robinson.

[Poly]

Originally Posted by Easedalenovice

If you trailer boat it is important to limit the faff as much as possible. Some years ago I sealed up a normal light board with CT1 so that it was submergible and I did not need to take it on and off. This lasted several years but has now failed. I have therefore fixed some metal plate to this old board. Cut of the flex and bought a set of magnetic lights. We run the cable over the top of the boat and these can be took of and put back on quite quickly. Here is a link to the ones we bought for £19 I deliberatly did not want LED as they don’t flash the icon on my dash.

These save time are easy and no more poking a long light board into the car

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I recommend a bit of bungy or rope to stop them slipping off when you go over a speed bump or big pothole. Voice of experience!

[Trello]

Thanks for the photos, Orwell boy and PD - neat solutions to an annoying problem.

[Easedalenovice]

Originally Posted by Trello

I really like the idea of not having to remove your lightboard, but, as ShinyShoe intimates in #5 (I think), it's difficult to envisage where your lightboard is situated so that it isn't damaged when you put your boat on and off the trailer. Could you put up a photo so that we can see how it all works?

I have put the boat on and off the trailer with the lightboard on more times than I can count. Remember the trailer is in the water and the boat floats. No need for a picture

[Easedalenovice]

Originally Posted by Poly

I recommend a bit of bungy or rope to stop them slipping off when you go over a speed bump or big pothole. Voice of experience!

I have a lip on the bottom and side of the metal plate for just such a situation. Don’t want ropes or bungees if possible. This is all about reducing faff at the slip

[Matt]

And yet you still went with a cabled solution.

[User name]

I'd have a wired solution too, tbf. There's just something iffy about relying on wireless signals for safety equipment that I doesn't sit right with me.

[Matt]

I hear you. And yet that 10m long bit of wire and halogen bulbs is “classically” unreliable.
I had a light fail on me 2 weeks ago. Except it hadn’t failed, it was just flashing dimly and one of the plugs needed a wiggle. Trailer lights are the devils own job.

[ShinyShoe]

Originally Posted by Easedalenovice

I have a lip on the bottom and side of the metal plate for just such a situation. Don’t want ropes or bungees if possible. This is all about reducing faff at the slip

Now I see how Pikeys solution is low faff.

But without a picture there are at least two of us on here who are just bemused how you get your boat over the trailer board. AND you are still faffing with magnets.