Lumishore Eclipse DL55 Blue & White Downlight, White Housing

The Lumishore Eclipse DL55 blue and white downlight is the practical middle ground in the DL55 family. You get honest, task-quality white light when you need to see, and a calm blue glow when you want to keep your night vision or set an easy mood at anchor. One fixture, two jobs, and a white housing that disappears into a light-colored headliner.

Lumishore designs the Eclipse downlights for the overhead areas of a boat that take real abuse, cabins, cockpits, hardtops, and covered helm stations. This one is built around a durable aluminium body with a glass front, then fully water-sealed to an IP67 rating. That construction is why it shrugs off spray, condensation, and the occasional rain shower that would fog or corrode a lesser light. On the water, a downlight lives a much tougher life than anything you'd hang in a house, and this one is built for it.

The dual-color layout is the whole point. Switch to crisp 5000K white for cleaning fish, reading a chart, or finding gear in a locker. Switch to blue for a night watch, a quiet evening on the hook, or moving around the cabin without waking anyone. Blue light also does far less damage to your dark-adapted eyes, so you can check the deck at 2 a.m. and still see the horizon afterward.

Control stays simple. Run it from a basic on/off switch, or wire it to the Lumishore ECLIPSE Command Center if you'd rather manage color and scenes from one place. The electrical side doesn't change either way, it's a plain two-wire hookup that a confident owner can handle without special tools.

Fitment is where these downlights shine for anyone who has fought a tight overhead. The fixture needs a 50.8mm (2.0 in) cutout and seats in a shallow recess of just 21mm (0.83 in), so it goes into headliners and panels that would reject a deeper light. Stainless steel spring clips lock it in from behind, leaving a clean face with no visible fasteners. The bezel measures 64.0mm (2.519 in) across, so it reads as a tidy, finished part of the boat.

Power draw is low. The DL55 runs on a 12V DC supply within a 10 to 15V window and pulls a maximum of 0.4A, which means you can run a whole row of them off the house bank without a second thought. Less current also means less heat and less voltage drop along long wiring runs, so the last light in the chain looks as good as the first.

If your boat still has dim, yellowed dome lights overhead, this is an easy and worthwhile upgrade. You're trading tired old fixtures for a sealed marine-grade downlight with modern LED efficiency, a genuinely useful color choice, and a flush white-housing look, and it's covered by a 3-year warranty. Because every DL55 shares the same body and cutout, you can mix this dual-color model with single-color or full-color units elsewhere and keep a consistent look throughout the boat.

Here's how we'd use it. Put a few through the saloon and galley set to white for everyday tasks, then flip them to blue for the run home after sunset or a night at anchor. It's the kind of small change that makes the whole interior feel calmer and more finished, and you'll notice it every single evening you're aboard.

Think about the two ends of a typical day on the water. In daylight and at the dock you want that bright white to prep the boat, load gear, and clean up after a day out. Late at night, when someone gets up to use the head or check a line, the soft blue lets them move without flooding the cabin with glare or waking the crew. Having both in one fixture means you're not choosing between practical and comfortable, you get both with a flip of the switch, and the sealed IP67 build means it keeps performing season after season.