Video Transcript for Hands-On with the Peterson Piranha LED Clearance or Side Marker Trailer Light

Today we'll be taking a look at the Peterson Piranha LED clearance or side marker trailer light.This is a submersible light since it's epoxy sealed, so that going to keep all our diodes from any kind of corrosion or any kind of damage. That means we can use this on a marine trailer anytime we're going in and out of the water, or just any other trailer that we want to have an amber clearance light. And we'll know that it's going to be protected from any kind of dirt or debris from getting in there and causing issues.Those LEDs are also going to have an advantage over the old incandescent bulb styles since there's no brittle filaments that can break with these. There's no bulbs to replace. They're virtually maintenance free once you install them in. And they're going to last a lot longer, have a lower power draw, and give you typically a brighter light than you would get with your incandescent bulb.

You have this amber lens going over our white LEDs. It is compatible with 12 volt DC systems.When I hook this up to my power and ground, our black wire will be for the power and then our white wire with the ring terminal on it is going to be our ground. It comes with a number 10 ring terminal already on our ground wire there. So I'll turn on my power .. you can see our LEDs come on.

We'll have those two diodes. Turn out the lights in the studio and you can get an idea of how bright that is.So not super bright, but enough to be DOT compliant and let other drivers know where we are at. This is P2 rated, which means that you can see it head on but then when we turn to the side it's really not as visible. This can be used as a clearance light or a side marker light. It can't operate as both since you can't see it at that full range of view.

Turn the power off. Disconnect my wires. Let's go over some measurements.The light is about 4 and 1/8 inch long, or 4 and a 1/16 inch long. Excuse me. And then about 1 and 1/16 inch wide.

And about an inch thick or about 15/16. The wires coming off the back are about 5 and 1/2 inches long.You can pick up a bracket to go with this. That part number is sold separately, but you can find that here at etrailer.com. And that's going to be part number B169-18. And it's just a little black bracket, but this is going to pop in too. The wires go through the middle, and then you would attach it using the holes here on either side. The hardware to get this mounted up is not included either so you'll have to pick that up separately as well.This is DOT compliant. P2 rated, again. And it has a power draw at 12 volts of 0.03 amps. Input voltage can be between 9 volts and 16 volts DC, and it comes with a 10 year limited warranty from Peterson. Overall, it should be a really nice looking long lasting light for your trailer.That's going to do it for our look at the Peterson Piranha LED clearance and side marker lights. One last measurement I want to give you is the distance between our mounting holes. That's three inches. And that'll do it for our look at the Peterson Piranha LED clearance lights.