On Friday, December 21, 2012 9:21:23 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 12:09:10 -0500, " Sir Gregory Hall, Esq·"

åke wrote:





http://www.defender.com/product.jsp?...992429&id=7961



If you need a good, legal (two-mile vis) anchor light you can't go wrong with

this one.



Defender seems to have the best price around for this item.



Not a very efficient light, is it. One bulb draws .11 amps and a

second draws .33 amps but only produces "about twice" the light (for

three times the power).



There are better lights available.



....after looking on the web I'll revise that statement as I see West

marine is selling LED light bulbs for $52.99. Amazing really, given

that I can buy, in Bangkok, LED bulbs of equal power, but not with the

indexed nav light base, for about $10 U.S.

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Cheers,

Bruce

What's "equal power"? There are all sorts of cheap LEDs available, but the actual lumens is what matters. Whether or not the cheap LED will muck up your electronics with RFI is of interest as well.

That said, I'm giving a pair of spotlights (well, really "wash" lights, as it's 140 degrees spread) at $12.99 including shipping a try for a replacement for a 99 element LED set I've got on the arch, but which has a couple of the 11 vertical rows dead, and some others failing.

http://store.marinebeam.com/led-flood-light.html addresses the RFI issue, but is the same price as the one I'm replacing was.

Here's the cheapies I await; this auction may have ended, but they have more...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/10W-LED-Floo...21015039468%26

L8R, y'all

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