LED Anchor Light
dbo...@mindspring.com
so-called superbright LEDs I bought were too dim, I decided to just buy
a commercial one in spite of the high cost. So, I bought the Orca
Green Marine light (yeah, expensive) with solar cell to turn it off in
day. I plan to hook it up to my batteries via a long wire and pull it
up into the foretriangle. I'll ley y'all know how it works.
Wayne.B
What are you going to do with all of those left over resistors?
:-)
dbo...@mindspring.com
dbo...@mindspring.com
Aluminum. It has a SINGLE LED and associated electronics that
supposedly enables it to run at max brightness at volts of 8-46 V.
Larry
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When Cap'n Geoffrey bought Lionheart, an Amel Sharki Ketch, from a guy in
Florida, we found HIS homemade anchor light atop the mizzenmast.....a Home
Depot, solar-recharged, LED walkway light, the kind you put up a sidewalk
in front of your house. It has a LEGAL anchor light on it, now. The guts
of the walkway light are lit as I type this. I put it in the front window
of my work stepvan and pointed the two yellow LEDs into the step well to
light it up when you crawl aboard at night. Still works great unless you
park the truck in the shade all day or it rains....
Joe
Next time do a bit of research before you buy junk.
http://ledmuseum.home.att.net/
Everything you ever wanted to know about LED's including who makes the
brightest today.
Joe
Roger Long
There was some discussion here last spring about my el cheapo homemade
spreader light. It's a 12 bucks for the pair fog light from VIP
although I had to pay another five bucks to have a hole drilled in the
lens (I learned in the process that I easily could have done it myself
but the drill bit would have cost six bucks). It works great, is
brighter than I need, and smaller and more compact than anything else
I could find.
The discussion was about the fact that it's ground is connected to the
case and thus the mast. I hooked up the old return wire to it so that
the mast and rigging aren't actually carrying any of the light's load,
only any slight differential. For something that is only on
infrequently and briefly, this seems acceptable.
If I was racing or doing a lot of night sailing where the light was
critical and going to be on for long periods, I would have paid for a
marine spreader light but this has worked out very well. It will be
starting to rust by the end of this season but I have the other one
from the pair in the basement.
I paid 40 bucks for a masthead light that isn't nearly as well made or
complex except that the little tube stanchion is stainless.
--
Roger Long
Wayne.B
>homemade anchor light atop the mizzenmast.....a Home
>Depot, solar-recharged, LED walkway light, the kind you put up a sidewalk
>in front of your house.
That's creative. Was the brightness insufficient?
dbo...@mindspring.com
thought it was waaaay too dim.
The LED in this Orca light is unusual in that the dome of the LED seems
to have been machined to throw the light radially. The housing of the
whole light is very well made.
RCE
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The ones I saw that pass the USCG requirements (visible at night for 2
miles) had only three LEDs, but they were mounted in a Fresnel lens cover.
RCE
Gordon
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Larry
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> That's creative. Was the brightness insufficient?
>
>
>
It was bright enough.....well, until the battery ran dead around midnight.
After that, it was DEAD....not good.
Larry
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> The LED in this Orca light is unusual in that the dome of the LED seems
> to have been machined to throw the light radially. The housing of the
> whole light is very well made.
>
>
This walk light has two bright LEDs pointing into a cone-shaped "radiator".
The leds actually point down, but the reflective cone radiates their light
out horizontally in all directions.
Wayne.B
>It was bright enough.....well, until the battery ran dead around midnight.
>After that, it was DEAD....not good.
It is an absolute requirement that they must stay lit until 1/2 hour
after the last pub closes. :-)
There should also be an owner sensor that will cause it to start
blinking if you get to within 400 yards of it in your dinghy.
Glenn A. Heslop
I had a low-draw anchor light that we've been hanging from the boom when
anchored and simply stowing when underway. It's got a photosensor so is
automatic...you know the $40 one from Boatersworld. It's brightness is
acceptable but now that it quit working, I want to make a replacement.
I was thinking of a really damn bright light (i.e. so even the crazy weekend
powerboaters from Miami will see it)...a battery sized to match (12hoursX
draw/H) & stored in a cockpit lazarette & coupled with a small solar panel.
That way I can have a bright anchor-light while not drawing power from my
house batteries.
Any suggestions/comments?
Thanks.
Glenn.
s/v Seawing
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Bob Crantz
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Couple it with the boat rocking.
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Larry
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> There should also be an owner sensor that will cause it to start
> blinking if you get to within 400 yards of it in your dinghy.
>
>
Maybe like the Cadillac...you press the key fob button and the light blinks
and the foghorn sounds so you can find the boat, drunk, in the dark...(c;
Larry
> I was thinking of a really damn bright light (i.e. so even the crazy
> weekend powerboaters from Miami will see it)...a battery sized to
> match (12hoursX draw/H) & stored in a cockpit lazarette & coupled with
> a small solar panel. That way I can have a bright anchor-light while
> not drawing power from my house batteries.
>
Problem solved.....
http://www.sailgb.com/p/anchor_light_6inch/
Draws no power...runs 30 hours on a "charge"
Haul it up on a halyard....
Wayne.B
>Maybe like the Cadillac...you press the key fob button and the light blinks
>and the foghorn sounds so you can find the boat, drunk, in the dark...(c;
None has ever had the need to do that I'm sure...
The only thing funnier to watch is a club launch with about 20 people
on it coming back from a party that suddenly realize that their anchor
light looks just like all the others. Oops.
Larry
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> The only thing funnier to watch is a club launch with about 20 people
> on it coming back from a party that suddenly realize that their anchor
> light looks just like all the others. Oops.
>
>
Those coming back from the party are lucky if they can SEE anchor lights,
at all, around here. Just getting them in a launch is lots of fun!
I used to drive a 50' Navy utility boat back and forth from the anchored-
out ship to Fleet Landing all night...full of drunks...fighting drunks...
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt, too!
Matt O'Toole
Have you actually tried it? We tried a couple of oil lamps last
summer. They wouldn't stay lit in the slightest breath of wind.
Matt O.
Spammy Spamson
Anchor light has 18 LED's, draws 90Ma, cost me (CAD) $46 including
"shipping" - took about 1 1/2 weeks for (postal) delivery, works just
fine!
If any one else buys any *other of their 12 vlt "bulbs" please e' me
with your opinion of the product. I want to replace all incandencent
(sp)? w/LED's.
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Larry
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> Have you actually tried it? We tried a couple of oil lamps last
> summer. They wouldn't stay lit in the slightest breath of wind.
>
>
We hauled a Weems & Plath yacht lamp up the mast a few times. It rained,
one time, and broke the glass chimney.
I'd have thought the actually anchor light, with the Fresnel Lens, would be
designed better than the cheap yacht lamp with the $100 price tag.
ere...@gmail.com
I bought a Bebi anchor light and will install it in the spring. Really
quick shipment, good email support on questions I had. Drop me a note
in 90 days and I'll let you know how hard it was to install. The mast
is up so it will be done working from a chair.
Ed
Being There
Pearson 33-2 36
out of Marion, MA
John Glynn
Glenn.
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Evan Gatehouse
would only seldom blow out, because there is an inner chimney on the
model in the link. A fill lasted about 2-1/2 nights (which of course
meant that it would die the 3rd night because I was too lazy to fill
it the third night)
We replaced it with a tiny anchor light with a small bulb that drew
about 0.2A. Now I'd replace it with a LED type anchor light (home
made multi LED white one)
Evan Gatehouse
Joe Kovacs
http://www.autolumination.com. They have opposed pins, so I
filed one off and installed them into Aqua Signal nav lights.
They work real well, really bright in stern and anchor lights,
they can easily be seen two miles away. They're up on eBay,
search on "1142 navigation". I think they're $19US now. These
people are very easy to deal with. I may try a couple of
their 12 volt spotlighty things with 30 LEDs in the red/green
lights.
I got two tower bulbs from ProfessorLED on eBay and in the end
they're very bright too, but there's a lot of hassle from the
seller. Originally he sold anchor light bulbs with a solar
switch and that's what I bought, but he recalled them and the
replacements had no solar switch, and for a rationalization he
didn't care what he said. I paid promptly by money order and
his computer generated a formal complaint that he had to
withdraw. For shipping I paid $18US for two bulbs and he paid
$2.10US. His web site shows some very nice bulbs, but they're
overpriced etc. etc. His illustrations all still show a solar
switch. The bulbs are indexed pins and they fit Aqua Signal
light sockets.
I wish someone else would start producing those things because
autolumination's bulbs are not indexed pins.. The towerLED
bulbs are very easy to produce if you're an electronics
technician. ProfessorLED manufactures his, I think in a 1/2
car garage sized operation.
--
Joe
Joe Kovacs
SV Sea Breeze
Joe Kovacs
> I got two tower bulbs from ProfessorLED on eBay
Oh. Yes. The Autolumination tower bulbs with 20 LEDs use 1.8
watts of 12 v power. That's not a misprint, they use one
decimal eight watts, almost two watts. The ProfLED bulbs with
18 LEDs use a little less. They are very bright. They're very
clear one mile away, I haven't been able to look at them from
two miles away, and am sure they can be seen from farther away
than that.
I read that it takes 20 LEDs to equal the light of one 10 watt
incandescent bulb. I know that there are different sizes and
brightnesses of LED bulbs, and think that that's 20 of these
LEDs. And note that an incandescent bulb puts out its light
over 360 degrees, and an LED bulb can have its 20 LEDs aimed
over 32 degrees.
The colour of navigation lights is strictly defined in the
ColRegs. While they are a good red, green and white these
particular bulbs don't meet those regulations. LED lights with
USCG certification do.
How do these LED lights compare with the incandescents that
were in there? The bottom line is, They're different. They're
extremely bright, good colour, the low power consumption is
overwhelming making the decision to use them or not a
no-brainer, in ten years all the lights will be LED anyway and
these are well on the way to that. They're different.
I also have two Hella red and green nav lights. Again, thay're
very bright, 2 mile visibility and they are USCG and IMO
certified. They have different LED elements, and the two use a
total of 8 watts.
I have a 32 foot offshore cruising sloop and all my navigation
lights are LED. Firm.