Hella Marine Black Series 3.2" LED Cube Kit, Flood Beam

Hella Marine built the Black Series 3.2 inch LED cube kit for boaters who need real, usable light on deck without hanging a big bar off the hardtop. You get two compact flood cubes, a relay, a switch, and a full wiring harness with a Deutsch DT connector in one box. Wire it in, aim it, and you've got a clean spread of white light across the cockpit or the swim platform.

Each cube runs four LEDs behind a sealed lens and puts out a flood pattern rated at 3000 lumens for the pair. It's a true multivolt light. The kit draws 3.4 amps at 12 volts or 1.6 amps at 24 volts, so it drops onto either system without any extra hardware. That 40 watt draw is modest for the amount of light you get back, which matters when you're running lights off a house bank at anchor.

Flood is the beam you want for work light. It throws wide and even instead of punching a tight spot out to the horizon. So it's the right call for lighting a cockpit while you're rigging lines, washing down a catch, or loading gear at a dark dock. We've rigged pairs like this as spreader lights under a T-top and as aft-facing deck floods on center consoles. Both work well. If you're after a long-throw beam to pick out a channel marker, that's a different job and a different light. This one is built to light up what's close, and it does that cleanly.

Mounting is a universal stud pattern, so each cube hangs off a single bolt through a half inch hole. On a solid aluminum T-top leg that's a five minute job. On thin console fiberglass, back it up with a proper backing plate or a fender washer so you don't crack the gelcoat when you snug it down. The housing is 2.7 inches deep, which clears the underside of most T-tops and hardtops, but measure your canvas zippers and clearances on a tight 25 to 28 foot center console before you commit to a spot.

The included relay and switch make the wiring straightforward, but treat the ground like it matters, because it does. Run a clean single-point ground and give the circuit its own fuse. At 3.4 amps a 10 amp fuse is the sensible size, and keeping these off a shared accessory circuit means they won't trip a breaker every time you flip them on with something else running. The DT connector on the harness is sealed and keeps corrosion out of the plug, which is exactly what you want on a boat.

One tip from experience: flood light this bright can bounce glare off bow rails and light-colored decks, so angle the cubes down about 15 degrees and you'll kill most of the reflection. The black housing looks sharp against a dark hardtop and disappears in daylight. It'll show salt streaks like anything else on a saltwater boat, so a quick freshwater rinse now and then keeps it looking right. For a small tender or a 20 foot skiff, 3000 lumens is a lot of light. It's really at home on bigger center consoles, cruisers, and sportfishers where you've got deck to cover.

Hella Marine makes this same 3.2 inch cube in a spot beam pattern if you need reach instead of spread. If your job is close-in deck and cockpit light, the flood kit you're looking at here is the one to grab. If you want both, a lot of boats run a flood pair for work light and a spot pair up high for distance, all off the same style of cube so the look stays consistent across the boat.

Because it's a Hella Marine light, it's built to the fit and forget standard the brand is known for. Sealed housing, marine-grade materials, and a lens that shrugs off UV and spray. These aren't a bargain-bin cube you'll be re-sealing next season. Buy the kit once, wire it in right, and it becomes one of those things on the boat you stop thinking about. That's the whole idea behind the Black Series line.