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On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:31:23 -0400, "Ed" wrote:


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On Jul 21, 3:33 pm, "Thomas, Spring Point Light"
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Looking for a solar recharge portable anchor light.

This would be a 360* white light, with recharge batteries,
and small solar pick up someplace..

Anyone know where this can be bought?

There are suppliers of high quality lights for nav aids and barges if
you don't mind the price. A quick google gives this for instance:
http://www.premiermaterials.com/Prem...ials/solar.htm

We use garden lights on our stanchions for courtesy lighting but they
are not bright enough to be anchor lights.

-- Tom.


Why? I assume you already have an anchor light and a battery... why not
just add a solar battery charger and not buy all the extra stuff. if you
are leaving your boat alone you will want a bilge pump etc powered as
well.


I changed out my anchor light by using one of the LED replacements that
simply
goes in the same bayonet socket that used to be for the incandescent lamp.
These
are now widely available for about $20. The incandescent drew 10 watts,
and this
LED replacement draws a hair over 1 watt for the same amount of light.
Actually,
I think the LED is quite a bit brighter. Bottom line - I now run it for 10
hours
on the power that used to provide 1 hour.




I took a look at some LEDs for my running lights. I don't have the bayonet
sockets, fyi. They seemed to be not nearly as bright, so I pulled them out.
They make LED replacements with more elements, but they're much more than
$20. I don't think they're quite ready for prime-time for running lights
yet.


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"j" ganz @@
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