MoonLite LED Blacklights???

[Rangerman]

Anybody have one of the new MoonLite LED Blacklights? In particular I am looking at the Full Moon, Cordless. I currently have a Stan Sloan double decker with blacklight & white light which is cordless. Works fine just wondering if these are superior in performance. As I understand it, they have a premium 12v LED Ultraviolet Light and the Full Moon version comes with 3 Blacklights and 1 Whitelight LED as well as a cordless type plug-in. Any advantages or disadvantages would be greatly appreciated.

[Rangerman]

Thanks for the feedback. The stan sloans work fine but take up lots of room in the boat. I will have to check them out. Thanks again.

[busman1]

I have two of the phone jack ones. I had two Stan Slones before.
You only need one full moon to light up the whole side of your boat. i should have only gotten one,but now i light up about 50 feet of the bank, as I go down it. Mine were $149 each. I bought mine from WES at Anglers Outpost in Nicholasville. I would buy them again,in a heart beat. They are very compact and easy to store. According to the size of your boat you may only need a half moon or if you have a 20foot boat,the full moon is the way to go. If you do buy them , you will not be disapointed. They were the best purchase that I have made in awhile.

[SpotBoy]

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Jun-22-06 AT 11:06AM (EST)[/font][p]You can tone down the amout of light just by adding a small amount of window tinting !!! Also these lights work great with one difference !!! There are black spots between the diodes and it will freak you out when you are moving your rod side to side . It creates quite a lite show......

[gunslide]

could you describe what the tint does besides reducing light?

[SpotBoy]

>could you describe what the tint
>does besides reducing light?


That is exactly what it does. Some people think the big ones put out too much light ,thus the tiniting to reduce the amount

[gunslide]

I was referring to the lite show or something unusual you said it would do.

[crappiepappy]

>I was referring to the lite
>show or something unusual you
>said it would do.

I would think it would be similar to a "strobe light" effect ....... now you see it, now you don't, see it, don't, see it, don't, etc. With the light making the line "shine", then the black spot making the line "disappear", then the line coming back into the light (shining again) ..... that would be the only effect I can think of. And, yes ... that could be a disturbing "light show", for a intent line watcher !! ... cp

[BandT]

I have these lights, and I can tell you that I have never seen that (strobing) affect.

I have a 20' Bass boat, use 2 of the full moons and have more than enough light... truth is we only really need 1.

[crappiepappy]

>I have these lights, and I
>can tell you that I
>have never seen that (strobing)
>affect.
>
>I have a 20' Bass boat,
>use 2 of the full
>moons and have more than
>enough light... truth is we
>only really need 1.

I was only guessing at what "effects" were being referred to .... I really don't know, nor have I experienced that effect, either. But then, I've only used the "regular" type of blacklights.
Maybe you haven't either, because you ARE using 2 of them ... and the cross coverage/overlapping area of the lights, is keeping the "strobing" effect from happening.
Even so, and with only one of those lights on, it would seem to me that you would only experience the strobing effect, if you were fishing right over top of the light. I could be wrong ... but, it would seem to be the only way that a "dead spot" would affect the fluorescing of the line. (if that is what is occuring, and what "Spotboy" was referring to) He did say something about moving the rod side to side (I assume thru the light of the unit) ... so maybe he had his rod close to the unit (where the V of the light output is smallest) ?? ..... cp

[SpotBoy]

>>I have these lights, and I
>>can tell you that I
>>have never seen that (strobing)
>>affect.
>>
>>I have a 20' Bass boat,
>>use 2 of the full
>>moons and have more than
>>enough light... truth is we
>>only really need 1.
>
>I was only guessing at what
>"effects" were being referred to
>.... I really don't know,
>nor have I experienced that
>effect, either. But then,
>I've only used the "regular"
>type of blacklights.
>Maybe you haven't either, because you
>ARE using 2 of them
>... and the cross coverage/overlapping
>area of the lights, is
>keeping the "strobing" effect from
>happening.
>Even so, and with only one
>of those lights on, it
>would seem to me that
>you would only experience the
>strobing effect, if you were
>fishing right over top of
>the light. I could
>be wrong ... but, it
>would seem to be the
>only way that a "dead
>spot" would affect the fluorescing
>of the line. (if
>that is what is occuring,
>and what "Spotboy" was referring
>to) He did say something
>about moving the rod side
>to side (I assume thru
>the light of the unit)
>... so maybe he had
>his rod close to the
>unit (where the V of
>the light output is smallest)
>?? ..... cp

That is the light show that I am talking about. Crappie Pappy the next time you fish make a cast and hold your rod down in front of the light , move your rod from left to right (or right to left ) and watch the effect It is sort of neat for a minute or two then it is very distracting. But if you hold your rod in the same spot as you work your bait you won't see this,

[BandT]

We only added the second light recently... First couple of trips were with only the one and I dont recall any strobing affect...

We added the second light so that if we ended up fishing in two different directions... One thing about these lights is that there is very little 'side' coverage... the lights cover where you point them.

I guess if you were fishing vertically, right in front of the light, there could be some... sounds like an experiment about to happen!