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    I'm in the process of building a couple underwater crappie lights with LED light strips. Am I able to connect both of them to a single 12v battery. If so, anything special I need to do, or could I put a set of alligator clips onto the battery and then a second set of clips for the second light clipped onto those....

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    you can use both off one battery just hook your clips to the battery post. you can use as many as your battery will power

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    Clips are fine.

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    If you wanted to have a little more protection against casusing a short, you could use and inline connector and permanently wire one end of it to the battery or a fuse box.
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    If it's a marine battery, it has a large post and a threaded post ... so you could connect one light's leads to the large posts with clips & the other light's leads to the threaded posts.

    While the LED lights probably don't draw much amperage, I still don't like the idea of one set of clips attached to another set of clips. And to avoid any possibility of sparks (around the gas tank or batteries) I attach the Positive leads first & then the Negative leads.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CrappiePappy View Post
    If it's a marine battery, it has a large post and a threaded post ... so you could connect one light's leads to the large posts with clips & the other light's leads to the threaded posts.

    While the LED lights probably don't draw much amperage, I still don't like the idea of one set of clips attached to another set of clips. And to avoid any possibility of sparks (around the gas tank or batteries) I attach the Positive leads first & then the Negative leads.
    If something is going to arc it will regardless of the order of connecting the wires
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    I used cigarette lighter plugs on my lights, then put a 4 place cigarette lighter outlet on the battery and wired it in
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    Quote Originally Posted by DockShootinJack View Post
    I used cigarette lighter plugs on my lights, then put a 4 place cigarette lighter outlet on the battery and wired it in
    Have any recommendation where to buy the lighter plugs and the 4 place outlet - This idea sounds great!

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    Quote Originally Posted by wannagofishin View Post
    Have any recommendation where to buy the lighter plugs and the 4 place outlet - This idea sounds great!
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    Amazon has some really great water proof outlets for the marine uses. I put four up in the front of my boat fused off a fuse box. They are a bit more expensive than Walmart but the quality is very good. As one of them is a USB Outlet to charge my phone and T/M remote.

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