12 Volt LED Cabinet Lights Loox 2020 LED

Model 2020 LED is designed with many great perks. They are IP44 rated, which basically means they have great resistance to contaminants or water getting on the inside of the light. That makes this light ideal for the interior cabins of marine vessels. Light water spray and humidity will not bother this light. The Loox 2020 comes in a polished chrome, matte black, or matte nickel finish, and then in 3000K, 4000K, and 5000K light outputs. They are 3.2 watts each, kind of the equivalent of what a 17-18 watt halogen would be. So brighter than a 10 watt halogen, but slightly less bright than a 20 watt. They are 12 volt, which makes them ideal for boats. But with the low voltage LED power drivers, they are an awesome under cabinet light for your home kitchen too.

For replacing or upgrading on boats or motorhomes, friction fit clips are preset for a 2-3/16" hole, but can compress more and fit in a 2-1/8" hole. The opposite is also true. The friction fit clips can be pulled a little bit outward to fit snugly into 2-1/4" or 2-3/8" holes. Each light has an attached lead wire which is a twin wire. You can easily splice them into your existing boat wiring and have a nice smooth install.

For new home installations, order the number of lights that you need and the appropriate size and number of LED 12 volt power drivers. We are showing the 20 watt driver on this page for quick reference, but other driver choices, select from these two page links: Loox LED power drivers | Loox5 12V Power Drivers and Distributors. Lights are plug and play installation into the drivers, very simple installation. Each has what looks like a tiny phone jack that just snaps into the driver ports. Each model 2020 light is 3.2 watts. Up to six of them can easily connect and operate from the 20 watt driver. Larger wattage drivers are for areas with many more lights.

Halogen note: If you are using this light to replace halogen lights, the 3000K warm white light output is the most resemblant to the color of the halogen light output. It has that faint amber hue to it. The 4000K and 5000K become more of a whiter light output. The 3000K by far has proven to be the most popular choice. BUT, as we are running out of stock on the 3000K, and this light is discontinued, the 4000K will be your next best choice.

NEW! Also check out our new line of 12 volt LED lights also great for boats, and available in the same FIVE finish options as the old Hera halogen lights. That's right! White, Black, Chrome, Stainless Steel, and Gold finish options. Estar LED 12v lights

If you have any questions prior to ordering, please call or e-mail us.

No need to bore holes in the underside of your cabinets. The Loox 2020 light can be surface mounted with an overall drop down height of 5/8".

DIMMING: When it comes to using a dimmer on these lights, we show a nice touch free dimmer on that web page. How the touch free dimmer works is how it sounds, you don't have to touch it. You wave your hand before it, within 0-3 inches away. Just waving your hand will turn the lights on and off. If you hold your hand in front of it, you will set the light level up and down. The dimmer also has a memory. So if you use a wall switch to completely turn your lights on and off, they will turn back on to the last dimmed level you had set.

The touch free dimmer and other switches shown on that web page use a Lead for Modular Switch to connect into the side port on the 12 volt or 24 volt LED power drivers. Those lead wires come in 3 lengths giving you some options on how close you want to place the switch to the driver. There is also a switch housing shown on that web page. The housing gives you an easy way to mount the switch. The switches, and dimmer, are like small photo eyes. They are a short tiny barrel. So if you wanted to bore a hole in the face of your woodwork and fit the switch into that hole, you can mount them that way too. They just need to be accessible because you either need to touch them or come close to touching them. The motion switch shown on that page has a far greater range and is meant to pick up motion from across the room. But the touch free dimmer will not activate unless you wave your hand within 0-3 inches of the photo eye.

There are additional dimmers shown on the LED Dimmers and Switches page.

DIMMING on Boats: When we asked the manufacturer about how to dim this light on boats, their reply was: Use battery on boat at 12Vdc, use a voltage regulator (by others) to hold the power at a constant 12Vdc.  Typically a 9-15V range with 12Vdc output.

A customer of ours found this 12V DC dimmer to use on boats on Amazon. It seems like it will work. We noticed from the wiring instructions on the back, it seems like it wants you to connect the lights in series. We believe the lights should be connected in a series-parallel circuit. So you may need to run a long wire past all the lights and branch and ground each light from that lead wire. Not wire them light to light to light. Electricians can answer this better than me.

MOUNTING: Next we will show four additional pictures to explain the mounting a little better. Lights are prepackaged as recessed mount. The surface mount rings are optional accessories. When recessed, the metal friction fit clips hold the lights in their respective hole. For a new installation, attempt to bore a 2-3/16" hole to fit them into. If retrofitting, and you have 2-1/8" holes, the clips will compress more and allow the light to fit. If you have a slightly larger hole, the clips can be bent further outward to catch and hold in a larger hole, such as 2-1/4" or 2-3/8" holes. 2-1/2" would most likely be the extreme limit as the light itself is 2-9/16" in diameter on its face. Be gentle when bending the clips if you choose to do that: hold the light firmly, bend it once, then leave it alone. Push it into your hole, and then test it a little, try removing it. If it resists, good, you did it right.

From the side view of the light, you can see how shallow it is. They do not require a deep hole to fit into. When using the surface mount rings, you mount the ring to the surface first (but read all of this before mounting). It has those two flanges extending inward and thus hidden once mounted. Two tiny screws will hold it in place. There is a notch in one side of the ring for the light wire to pass through. You have TWO options. You can bore a hole through your surface for the light wire to pass through on its way back to the LED power driver and stay 100% hidden. Or you can run the wire out the side of the surface mount ring. If out of the side of the ring, pass the wire through the notch first before mounting the ring, and direct the notch and wire in the direction that you want the wire to go off in. BECAUSE the attached coupler is a little too large to pass through that notch, so position the wire through it first. When you finally push your light into the surface mount ring, it snaps in place very tightly.

The wire coming out of the light is on the edge of the rear base of the light. It has some flexibility. You can extend it straight backwards from the light, or off to the side. Give you some ease in whichever mounting method you choose.

If you need the same size light, but in a white finish, model 2020 does not come in white. But Loox model 2047 does come in a white finish. Model 2047 has an IP20 rating. It is a great light for interior home use and can work on boats too. It is not sealed as tight as the Model 2020. This is why we highly recommend the 2020 light for boats. But if you have a dry cabin area on your boat, Model 2047 is just fine to use. It will be just like the halogen lights you are replacing. And for anyone looking to replace your gold (brassy) color lights, sorry, we have not found a match to the gold color. We can help with the stainless steel look (the Loox 2020 matte nickel is extremely similar), the polished chrome, black, and white. But no gold. Chrome will be the best substitute for the gold. But you should attempt to match to your decor the best you can.

If you have the Hera E1 (ER1/ES1) halogen lights, the KB12, the KH12, or the EH11 (H11) halogen lights, please read on as to how the Loox 2020 LED is the best substitute for your old halogen lights.

We showed you two pictures above of the two metal friction fit clips behind the light. They are preset for a 2-3/16" hole. But they compress nicely into the 2-1/8" hole of the 4 Hera old discontinued soon to be long forgotten about halogen lights. So this light fits in those recessed holes with no problem. If you need to use it as a surface mount light too, that works as well. Those two friction fit clips can also be extended outward a little. If you happen to have another brand of light that fit into a 2-1/4" to 2-3/8" hole, you can bend them outward before installing and make the light fit.

The Loox 2020 light also resembles the Hera E1 light very well. Take a look at our comparison photo below. The Loox 2020 lights are the top row, the Hera E1 lights are the bottom row. Finishes are extremely similar. Loox is a matte black, Hera was shiny black. Polished chrome are alike. Hera called their brushed silver a stainless steel look. The Loox matte nickel resembles stainless steel. The Loox lights are metal, front and back. The Hera lights are plastic, front and back.

Read our note about old Halogen Light Kits and how you can create your own LED light kits.