[Rhodes22-list] LED Navigation Lights available from Ancor

[Bud]

Mike,
  JC Whitney offers several 12V fluorescent lights available from 6 to 
30 watts, you will find them in the RV section.
Thinking about it, it would be nice to mount a pair under the cockpit 
seats or tucked up just into the coamings for some
nice indirect lighting.

-Bud

Michael D. Weisner wrote:

>From: "John Lock" <jlock at relevantarts.com>
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>>>Secondly, when properly installed, LEDs should give considerable power
>>>saving over incandescent lamps as a result of the collimination of the
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>>>output.  Less lumens are required to cover the same distance and make the
>>>point source of light appear brighter (without any reflector or lens),
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>>>if they are not.
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>>True, when you need a point source of light (as for reading).  Not
>>suitable for navigation.  But for cabin lighting, I'd think one of
>>the T8 compact fluorescent units would have greater coverage at less
>>power consumption.  Yes?
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>I would not recommend using a fluorescent lamp onboard as I have found them
>to be unreliable in high humidity environments.  Someone once attempted to
>explain to me that a fluorescent tube required a good ground reference
>(fixture) to light properly.  OTOH, I do use a portable fluorescent while
>camping and the only objections I have are the squeal of the oscillator in
>the AC inverter and the flicker as the battery gets low.  I suspect that the
>inverter efficiency is probably only about 60%, making fluorescents less
>desirable from a power consumption standpoint.  Does anyone have figures on
>it?
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>Mike
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