Hella Black Series 2.7-Inch LED Cube Flood Light Kit

Sometimes you just need more light. The Hella Black Series 2.7-inch LED cube kit is a two-pod auxiliary flood light setup built for boaters, work trucks, and utility rigs that run after dark. Each cube packs four white LED bulbs behind an aluminum housing, and together they turn a dim deck or a black stretch of water into something you can actually see and work in.

Here's what you get in the box: two LED spotlight pods, a relay, a switch, and a wiring harness with a DT connector. That matters. A lot of light kits sell you the pods and leave you sourcing the relay and switch yourself. Hella includes the parts you need to wire the kit in the right way, off a relay so the switch only carries signal current and not the full load. If you've ever melted a cheap rocker switch running lights straight through it, you know why that's worth having.

Each pod pushes 1400 lumens in a flood beam. Flood is the key word. This is a wide, close-to-mid throw pattern, the kind you want for lighting up a cockpit, a swim platform, a truck bed, a work area, or the ground around a piece of equipment. It's not a pencil-beam spotlight for reaching way out across open water. If you need distance, the two pods can be aimed to overlap, or you run these as your wash light and add a narrower optic for reach.

The dual-voltage part is the quiet hero here. Each cube draws about 1.8 amps at 12 volts, or 0.9 amps at 24 volts, so the same kit works on a standard 12V boat or truck and on 24V commercial and heavy-equipment systems without any changes. That flexibility is rare in this size, and it's why you'll see these on everything from center consoles to service trucks to tractors.

Mounting is a universal stud on the base, so you can hang these off a bracket, a bar, a radar arch, a roll cage, or a flat panel. The rectangular body measures 2.7 inches wide, 2.8 inches tall, and 2.4 inches deep, so they tuck into tight spots where a round light won't sit square. A word from experience: on anything that vibrates, and that's every boat and every truck, add a lock washer or a dab of threadlocker to the stud nut and re-check it after the first few hours of use. Studs back off. It's not a defect, it's physics.

If you're mounting to fiberglass instead of metal, put a backing plate behind the gelcoat. The stud is happy to clamp down hard, and gelcoat doesn't love point loads. A simple backing plate or a fender washer on the inside spreads the load and keeps you from chasing stress cracks a season later.

On the wiring side, follow the included diagram for the relay. Get the trigger and the load legs right and the light behaves. Wire the relay backward and you can end up with a light that's constant-on, so if you're not sure, check it with a multimeter before you button everything up. Run the kit on its own fused circuit sized for the pair, and the included relay does the heavy lifting.

The black aluminum housing looks sharp and sheds heat well, which is what keeps LED output honest over time. One honest note: black housings that live in strong sun will fade over a few seasons. If your rig sits outside in tropical light year-round, a cover when it's parked keeps it looking new longer. Function doesn't change, it's just cosmetic.

Bottom line, this is a clean, well-thought-out flood kit from a name that's been building lights for a long time. You get two pods, the relay, the switch, and the harness, in a dual-voltage package that drops onto almost anything with 12 or 24 volts. Good deck light, good work light, good utility light.