Thanks for all the replies in my other thread about LED cabin lights. From the links provided I should be able to find some LED bulbs to replace the cabin lights. But I am also interested (didn't want the question lost in the other thread) in installing a LED tricolour (or tricolour for us Canadians) / anchor light and wanted to ask if anyone has installed one of these and were they happy with it? See: http://www.sailnet.com/store/item.cfm?pid=30523 or: http://www.orcagreen.com/TriAnchor.cfm Thanks
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Bil Thomas
LEd tri/anchor
Makai has a tricolor/anchor light. We like it very much. During passages we have crossed boats with and without. Boats with are definately more visable at a greater distance. We have had boats pass that we could only see on radar at any distance and it was until they were very close (sometinmes to clsoe) that we could see the running lights low on the water. The waves in the Caribbean and off shore can obscure lights that are too low. We do use our lower lights when traveling in close proximaity to a large number of boats in a rstricted area like the Chesapeake bay.
Makai has a tricolor/anchor light. We like it very much. During passages we have crossed boats with and without. Boats with are definately more visable at a greater distance. We have had boats pass that we could only see on radar at any distance and it was until they were very close (sometinmes to clsoe) that we could see the running lights low on the water. The waves in the Caribbean and off shore can obscure lights that are too low. We do use our lower lights when traveling in close proximaity to a large number of boats in a rstricted area like the Chesapeake bay.
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Jack Tyler
Paul, I have seen one additional brand...
...at this year's SSCA Gam in Melbourne, FL. I doesn't appear to be the OGM brand as the products on display were being manufactured in Marathon, FL (on Vaca Key). I'm sorry I can't provide you with their name but I would recommend you google them and pursue their product further. They had a curtained booth inside which you could toggle on any of their products and they were quite impressive. The anchor light had 2 tiers of LEDs and the Tri-color 3 tiers, as I recall (or vice versa). They also offered these products without the lens body, in a form that could easily be retrofitted into one's existing Aqua-Signal products (Tri, Anchor, or Combo), which was especially clever. I think Bill misunderstood your question and was talking about the utility of these lights, missing the point that you were asking about LED versions of these lights. Jack
...at this year's SSCA Gam in Melbourne, FL. I doesn't appear to be the OGM brand as the products on display were being manufactured in Marathon, FL (on Vaca Key). I'm sorry I can't provide you with their name but I would recommend you google them and pursue their product further. They had a curtained booth inside which you could toggle on any of their products and they were quite impressive. The anchor light had 2 tiers of LEDs and the Tri-color 3 tiers, as I recall (or vice versa). They also offered these products without the lens body, in a form that could easily be retrofitted into one's existing Aqua-Signal products (Tri, Anchor, or Combo), which was especially clever. I think Bill misunderstood your question and was talking about the utility of these lights, missing the point that you were asking about LED versions of these lights. Jack
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Mike C.
$238?
This is a second LED project I'm working on. I haven't started the design yet but I have ideas on how it will need to be built. $238 for 3 LED's in a plastic light is about $200.00 tooo much in my book. I'd planned on about 6 white LED's for the anchor light and 3 each of Green and Red. I won't put the mast up on my 33.5 until March so I plan on building the light and testing it for a couple of months just to be sure of no problems. Checking one of the links they're also nice enought to sell you a $5.00 switch for $30.00. It's possible to build the light with two wires (build the board with the Red/Green and White LED's in different directions. Changing the polarity on the positive and negative will turn the White or the Red/Green LED's on. To operate all three colors at the same time you'll have to have 3 wires. Good Luck! Mike
This is a second LED project I'm working on. I haven't started the design yet but I have ideas on how it will need to be built. $238 for 3 LED's in a plastic light is about $200.00 tooo much in my book. I'd planned on about 6 white LED's for the anchor light and 3 each of Green and Red. I won't put the mast up on my 33.5 until March so I plan on building the light and testing it for a couple of months just to be sure of no problems. Checking one of the links they're also nice enought to sell you a $5.00 switch for $30.00. It's possible to build the light with two wires (build the board with the Red/Green and White LED's in different directions. Changing the polarity on the positive and negative will turn the White or the Red/Green LED's on. To operate all three colors at the same time you'll have to have 3 wires. Good Luck! Mike
Led Christmas lights
I got some of these from Fry's for $10 per string of 70 bulbs. They are similar to the little incandescent bulbs but without the burnout issues. They also use far less power for you guys who want to decorate your boat for the holidays
I got some of these from Fry's for $10 per string of 70 bulbs. They are similar to the little incandescent bulbs but without the burnout issues. They also use far less power for you guys who want to decorate your boat for the holidays
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Jung
$238 for LED lights?
are they made of diamond???? No offence for those who bought those LED light, a low-tech stuff these day. You can buy a 17" LCD monitor for that money, I have no idea why a simple products would sold for same money. Patrick is right, buy a bundle of LED chrismas light for $10 and you got 70 LED lights. further more, hang them on boat and lite it up, I bet other boater could see you better than LED anchor light. Seriously, if you already have a old anchor light which you think draw too much current, you could replace light bulb with LED as Mike C. is doing for his boat. If you know how to use soldering iron then you probably can make one for few bucks instead of spending hundreds for a new LED light.
are they made of diamond???? No offence for those who bought those LED light, a low-tech stuff these day. You can buy a 17" LCD monitor for that money, I have no idea why a simple products would sold for same money. Patrick is right, buy a bundle of LED chrismas light for $10 and you got 70 LED lights. further more, hang them on boat and lite it up, I bet other boater could see you better than LED anchor light. Seriously, if you already have a old anchor light which you think draw too much current, you could replace light bulb with LED as Mike C. is doing for his boat. If you know how to use soldering iron then you probably can make one for few bucks instead of spending hundreds for a new LED light.
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Paul
Tricolor Anchor light
Jung I also thought that $238 was a bit much to but then I looked at the price of tricolor anchor lights that aren't LEDs and they are as much or evem more (see link). I don't have one now but as Bill says I think they are good idea for visibility. Thanks for Jack for your response but except for OGM I can't seem to find any other LED versions googling. An article in National Geographic a year or two ago said that now that they have figured out to how to make a white LED light, LEDs would eventually replace all lights.
Jung I also thought that $238 was a bit much to but then I looked at the price of tricolor anchor lights that aren't LEDs and they are as much or evem more (see link). I don't have one now but as Bill says I think they are good idea for visibility. Thanks for Jack for your response but except for OGM I can't seem to find any other LED versions googling. An article in National Geographic a year or two ago said that now that they have figured out to how to make a white LED light, LEDs would eventually replace all lights.
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