OceanLED, the leading manufacturer and designer of LED underwater lighting for boats products, has revealed an exciting new development set to revolutionise the future of underwater boat lights and fittings. After a year of intensive development, the company has announced that it will be implementing a unique Polymer, named Delnaeco for its LED housing units to replace the Aluminium Bronze currently used.

Aluminium Bronze has always been used by OceanLED for its housing units. Although an expensive choice, it’s one of the most robust metals when used underwater, and is renowned for having a great resilience to salt water corrosion as well as having thermal characteristics to help keep the light and LEDs cool.

For the past year, OceanLED has been working with a Swiss based, advanced Polymer specialist, to develop Delnaeco. Plastic has always been deemed as the ultimate material to use for an underwater light, but problems such as durability, flammability, scratch resistance, chemical resistance, thermal conductivity and optical clarity have prevented it from being suitable. The Delnaeco Polymer is 1.5 times stronger than Polycarbonate, V0 rated for flammability, almost 100% optically perfect, resistant to all known solvents and adhesives and most importantly thermally conductive.

OceanLED has used Delnaeco Polymer on its new Amphibian lighting range. Delnaeco’s unrivalled thermal conductivity has enabled the Amphibian product line to become the world’s first lighting collection designed to be used in and out of the water.