On Mar 22, 10:22*am, wrote:
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:17:50 -0700 (PDT), Tim
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On Mar 21, 9:53*pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:54:11 -0400, I am Tosk

wrote:
I wouldn't do it without a couple of those million
candle power lights, hand held and moving around a lot.

I've got a couple of those but only use them in close quarters on
unlighted objects like nav markers or jetties. *

Once you turn on a spotlight your night vision goes away for about 10
minutes or more. *It's amazing what you can see without any lights
once your eyes get dark adapted.

Yes, on the few times I've run at night on the Lake, I've killed my
gauge lights so they weren't glaring back at me. even on dim, they
were a bother.

It helps to replace the bulbs with red ones. They do sell those peanut
bulbs in red. I put a resistor in the line to my gauge bulbs. The good
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Mine are set up naturally 'orange' and are easy on the eyes at night,
but they do distract. I can dim them but it seems not enough to keep
from being annoying. I have them as low as they can go and will turn
them on briefly and occasionally just to make sure things are in
order, then off they go.