Marine LED searchlights for sea-going ships and inland vessels

JNLED supplies LED searchlights for cargo ships, tankers and bulk carriers, the harbour tugs that work alongside them, and inland barges and push boats. A sea-going fixture has to hold its output through salt air, engine vibration and long periods between yard access, so we specify it that way: LED packages from Philips Lumileds and Nichia with Mean Well drivers, and a housing, sealing line and beam specified for the mounting position. Across the catalogue, ingress protection runs from IP65 to IP68 and rated life from 50,000 to 100,000 hours. The searchlights are built to order, so we confirm the figures for your position against your drawing. Beam angle is customisable and the head rotates continuously, so one searchlight covers navigation, mooring and search work.

A searchlight on a merchant vessel is working equipment. It has to pick out an unlit buoy, hold a man overboard in the beam, light a pilot ladder in a swell, and keep doing it after months of salt, vibration and temperature cycling.

We build to that duty rather than adapting a shore fitting. Key lines run on our own moulds, so the housing, sealing line and mounting can be changed for your deck instead of worked around. LED packages come from Philips Lumileds and Nichia with Mean Well drivers. We buy direct from the chip, driver and coating suppliers, so a change of LED, driver or coating stays inside our own supply chain.

Across the catalogue, specifications are published per product: power in watts, lumen output, efficacy in lm/W, IP rating, beam angle, CCT, IK rating, voltage and warranty. Ingress protection runs from IP65 to IP68 and rated life from 50,000 to 100,000 hours, depending on the line. The searchlights themselves are built to order and specified against your drawing, so confirm the figures for your position with us before they go into a submittal.

Inland work is not deep-sea work. Your distances are short and your reference points are close: a lock wall, a bank marker, a bridge pier, an unlit mooring. Light that throws far but scatters badly will bounce off the water and off a pale lock chamber straight back at you, so beam control matters more than raw output. Air draught limits where a fitting can sit and how big it can be. Engines run for long stretches, so vibration is constant rather than occasional.

We specify to those conditions rather than around them. JNLED holds its own moulds on key product lines, so housings, brackets and mountings can be adapted to the vessel instead of taken as standard. The fittings use Philips Lumileds and Nichia LEDs with Mean Well drivers. We buy direct from the chip, driver and coating suppliers. Before you commit to anything, we produce a light-simulation report for the vessel and a cost-saving calculation against the fittings you run today.

JNLED was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Hong Kong. We work from the specification through to the fixtures on deck.

Send the vessel, the space or the lux target and our engineers return a light-simulation report showing the levels you will get, plus a cost-saving calculation against your existing lighting. From there we cover project design, production, logistics including customs clearance and warehousing, and installation support, and we ship worldwide.

Hong Kong keeps us close to the factories in South China around Shenzhen, so work on a housing, an optic or a full OEM programme is developed in collaboration rather than by email. We buy direct from the chip, driver and coating suppliers and hold our own moulds on key lines, which makes a change to housing, optic or driver a production decision rather than a search for another supplier. Warranty terms are confirmed with the quotation.