When I was trying to find mine, 3 years ago, it was a very difficult search.
Walmart has had some LED lights in the automotive section, but I believe
they were green; I was specifically looking for red, to provide night
lighting. I wound up having to buy an entire 150' spool. That company no
longer deals in it, and the last time I tried to find it, I came up empty.
My original thought was to run it up a halyard or some such, but that much
length (an element every inch) wound up being a very high draw, so I
abandoned it.
That said, I hailed a tug on the trip down (see my log postings from recent
times) where the small (~3') length I have as my cockpit lighting was enough
to confuse the tug as to what I was (saw another red light beyond my
tricolor atop the mast, not the masthead :{)) light which is when I'm
motoring), so it's very visible. It and the one I have over the workbench
(visible from that side through the port to the side of it, not even
directly) is more than enough to eliminate doubt as to which is my boat,
from a mile off...
I'm away from the boat, which is now in St. Simons Island GA, but I have
some left, along with the required power connectors and end caps, if you
strike out. Also amber, if you'd rather, if you're not using it in a
night-vision capacity. I chose the amber as being the least expensive other
color; white, blue, green and others were very much more expensive; as it
was the red was ~$6/foot.
We use the amber for ambient lighting below, in twice the length; I use SPDT
switches to change from red to amber in my galley, forward and aft cabins
and salon. The red only is for my workbench (otherwise a 4' fluorescent
lamp from American Van, uses $1-2 4' lamps from HD or other usual points of
supply) and cockpit (the other side of the SPDT in the cockpit is a white
incandescent table light on the binnacle).
We like it *a lot* and get oohs and ahhs from any who come aboard. Under
way, the red under our spice shelves (total ~ 4') is ample to work in the
galley...
HTH
L8R
Skip, stranded in N.GA with Lydia's mother who's fallen and broken her wrist
in 4 places...
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