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With few people at work, its hard to get much done. Today I woulda got
more done on the boat but spent it at work. I'll go to the boat to
change the oil and engine zinc on my Yanmar 2GM tomorrow.
Tried to find some 600 ohm resistors at Radio Shack for my homemade
ultra-bright LED anchor light but no luck, will havta order em.

It seems the LEDS are the thing, trucks etc & I assume your traffic stop
& speed limit lights are all LED arrays now??? Here they're replacing
them with LEDS, apparently much less power & of course if one dies the
traffic light is still functional.

Torches are all going LED & still seem to have plenty of punch.

As for anchor lights we have used them for about 3 yrs now, but we buy them.

The problem with using them as a "real" anchor light is compliance, in
the probably unlikely even you were run down in the night while at
anchor the insurance people would use whatever they could to claim you
were not using legal lighting.

The one on my boat is "maybe" visible at 2 miles, in complete darkness
you can see a pin prick of light but it's so tiny you're not sure if
it's just what you see when you look that hard at the dark:-) but by
well over a mile it's definitely in play & by 1 mile very clear.

Here the pleasure boat rules just require "visible" at 2 miles.

K