Thanks to all for the quick notes. I read Rick's as part of that and wanted to clarify something: Do you mean that you can't fine LED lights for the sidelights (a.k.a. "eyeballs") so need to go with an incandescent bulb that gives you 2 miles?
Message: 7 Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 14:43:16 -0500 From: "Rick Brass" <[email protected]> To: "'Dennis C.'" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Stus-List LED BULBS IN GENERAL Message-ID: <009001cefa97$116a06d0$343e1470$@net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Alex; I second Dennis' recommendation for MarineBeam.com. I have also used Superbrightleds.com as a source with good results for replacement for incandescent bulbs in the cabin. And as I've said before, I put Alpenglow LED fixtures in the cabin in place of the OEM fluorescent lights. The only problem I have had in the 3 or so years I've had LED bulbs on the boat has been with the PAR bulbs that are in the light fixtures containing my steaming and foredeck lights and my spreader lights. The heat sink on the LED replacement bulbs is slightly larger than the reflector on the halogen bulbs that came in the fixture, so the fit isn't quite right and I need to install the LED bulbs without the lens that came in the fixture. No failures so far, but I had to go up and reseat one of the spreader lights last spring before it would go on. Regarding nav lights, I'm not sure about Transport Canada requirements - you guys have some regs that seem frickin strange to me. But as far as the USCG compliance goes you should have no problems. The USCG requires that the manufacturer use nav lights that comply with USCG requirements when building the boat. Many light manufacturers will put something on their fixtures that say they comply with the requirements. But the USCG neither approves nor disapproves of any light, they only require that the lights used put out enough lumens to be seen over the range and arc specified in the ColRegs. The guy at Marinebeam was really helpful to me when I put LEDs in all my nav lights. I wanted 5 mile visibility (as for a vessel 65 ft or more), though the USCG requirement for my boat is only 2 miles. We talked about what fixtures I had (I recall that you really need to put green LEDs behind green lenses to meet the requirements because of the temperature/wavelength of the output of the LEDs) and was able to supply the requested bulbs for everything except those little red and green "eyeball" fixtures in the stem of the boat, and even there he was able to supply bulbs to meet the 2 mile requirement. Alex Giannelia CC 35-II 1974 to be renamed after re-launch TORONTO, Ontario ag@@airsensing.com _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com [email protected]
