Attwood PowerBase Automated Folding Light Mount

The Attwood PowerBase is an automated folding light and antenna mount that stows and deploys at a single button press, with object detection.

SafeGuard Breakaway returns the mount to its stowed position the moment it detects an impact. A powered mount that keeps driving against an obstruction destroys itself and whatever it hit. Detecting the impact and retracting is what makes automation safe on a moving boat where things swing into the mount's path.

Attwood describes it as the only light and antenna mount on the market with real object detection built in. That is the feature separating it from a motorized mount that simply runs to its end stops regardless of what is in the way.

Automated stowing removes the two failure modes of a manual mount: wrestling a stiff hinge, and leaving gear up because nobody bothered. A light or antenna left deployed under way is exposed to spray, branches and bridges, and the reason it stays up is usually that folding it is inconvenient. Explore more lighting controls and accessories.

• Breakaway retracts the mount on impact
• A powered mount otherwise destroys itself and the obstruction
• Object detection, not just end stops
• Gear stays up because folding it is inconvenient