Lumen output was being increased as quickly as every couple months, and developers had improved Led light quality through the use of new materials and coatings which allowed them to produce LEDs with light output similar to the "warm white" coloration preferred by most consumers.

It is near the end of the 1990s and into 2000 that LED boat lights really began to rise in popularity and become one of the areas where LEDs quickly met with a great deal of success in replacing traditional forms of lighting.

Boat lighting is one of those areas where most boat owners find themselves on a constant vigil of weighing the use of electricity against onboard power supplies.

Aside from navigation and anchor lighting, lighting on boats has been normally considered a luxury of sorts, with most boaters being quite familiar with the rationing of lighting use to conserve electrical power.

Boaters have resorted to everything from flashlights to oil lamps to avoid using valuable electrical power running cabin lighting, and more than one boater has found themselves installing bigger generators and extra fuel tanks to power them, simply to lessen the need for power rationing.

All of these alternatives are in truth little more than band aids covering a bigger problem as while effective in reducing the need for power rationing, they also increase the costs associated with producing power.

The biggest problem with most boat lighting is the very poor efficiency of the lighting equipment used. Incandescent light bulbs have been the main type of lighting on boats skylt & dekor of all sizes for decades.

And for as long as electrical lights have been on boats, boaters have had to ration their use to prevent excessive fuel consumption and battery drain.

Incandescent bulbs waste most of the energy fed into them as heat, and have a very low lumen to watt ratio, which means that up to 90% of the electrical power fed into an incandescent bulb is wasted rather than used to produce light.

On a boat where power is limited and must be produced onboard either by running generators or the engines, wasting so much power can become an expensive proposition just to run some cabin lights.

Modern LEDs are an ideal lighting option for boats primarily because of their huge efficiency advantage over incandescent bulbs.

Whereas an incandescent bulb will produce around 15 lumens per watt, today's LEDs produce on the order of 60 to 90 lumens per watt.

To put it comparatively, a 50 watt halogen cabin light might produce on the order 750 lumens while a 12 watt LED light can produce 720 lumens. That is nearly the same overall lumen output produced using less than a quarter as much electrical power.