DOCKING LIGHT DIMMER SWITCHES

[HURRICANEBOB]

Hey, where can you get a dimmer switch for docking lights? My car has high and low beams, and I so dim, but don't turnoff, my lights when a motorist approaches from the opposite direction. This is to keep him from getting blinded, anymore than the drunk already is. So can you tell me who has boat docking light dimmers for sale, I gotta getsd me ones of dem dare dings.

Hey, do ya think it would work if I just put in a switch so that when a boat approaches, I could kill my port dock light, leave the starboard on, thereby cutting the total light produced by 50%........

[Danny]

Hey Bob,

Use a reostat. The same type dimmer you would use on your household lights.

Just a thought.

Danny

[MarkW]

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Jul-06-06 AT 07:25PM (EST)[/font][p]Danny,
Not sure a rheostat for the house will work on a 12 volt system, but you may be able to find something like a older Ford type healight/dimmer switch---if you can find anything else. Only problewm with a Ford type switch is that it didn't dim the headlamps, but it did dim the dashlights. You could wire your docking lights to the circuit on the switch that controls the dash lights.