[Rhodes22-list] LED Lights

[cjlowe at sssnet.com]

I've changed all the lights on my '86 Rhodes to led's except the one over
the head.(I use it very little) The red and green running lights I bought
from Defender,the rest I bought/made from leds from Bebi electronics in
Fiji.Real happy with them. One nice thing about led lights is you can run
two lights off two wires ,as long as you don't need to use both lights at
the same time. I run the steaming light and the fore deck light off one
switch and two wires.I plan to run the anchor light and the windex light
off another pair of wires,saves running 4 more wires up the mast. I go all
season on the charge of one of stan's solar panels to my group 27 battery.
I think the memory of the am-fm=cd player takes more power than all my
lights,when totaled for the season. Led's are great for top of the mast
lighting,very few issues with connections or burn-outs.

Jerry Lowe



> My running lights from Stan are led.  I think the cabin lights are
> flourescent.  I use an oil lamp at night for the mood factor.
>
> Chris Cowie
> Cowie Associates PC
>
>
> On Jun 28, 2010, at 7:08 PM, "Joe Camp" <jjcampjr at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Greetings Worthy Sailors: (and the rest of you, as well)
>>      Even though I am one month from taking delivery on my recycled
>> '87 from GBI, my mind is awash with whirling thoughts and
>> considerations.  One of these involves the matter of Thomas
>> Edison's  wonderfully wasteful invention: the incandescent light
>> bulb. I assume that the Rhodes comes with one of these little
>> fireballs at the end of each wire for lighting. I'd like to replace
>> these with LED lights in order to save power.  The cost of the bulbs
>> seems to be offset by power savings and real staying power (in a
>> light bulb sense).   Has anyone else taken this bold step outside
>> the realm of convention?  Has Stan already beat me to it, and used
>> LEDs?  Thanks.
>> Joe Camp
>>
>>
>>
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