[Public-List] Port and starboard navigation lights.

[John Birch]

We converted Sunstone's Masthead Tri Colour and Anchor light to LED a couple 
of years ago. The Anchor light to the 20Watt Equivalent as it still burns a 
boo all power and is incredibly bright.

Dr LED makes USCG certified legal nav LEDs, most of the other makers of 
cheaper LEDs are not certified for Nav. A white LED must not be used behind 
coloured Nav lights such as a Tricolour as they emit the wrong colour 
spectrum through the tinted lenses. Proper LED nav lights are coloured 
correctly.

The lower nav lights, and steaming light remain incandescent as they are 
only on if the engine is on. Changing those would be a false economy.

One of my great peeves with a growing number of boaters is that they display 
the wrong nav light configurations under power, in gross violation of the 
COLREGs.

The only thing to remember with LEDs is that they are polarity sensitive, 
unlike incandescent.

Other than that, LEDs are great and our cabin lights have also been 
converted to them.

Cheers,

John


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay Davenport" <jay at saildriver.com>
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Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 7:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Public-List] Port and starboard navigation lights.


I replaced my old lights, which were mounted on pads forward, with a 
combination (port & starboard) led fixture which is mounted in the center of 
the bow rail. It no longer gets in the way of ground tackle or dock lines, 
is twice as bright (2 nm), and always works. A good investment.

Jay Davenport
Revolution, A30 #526



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 From: "brooks.glenn at comcast.net" <brooks.glenn at comcast.net>
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Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2012 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Public-List] Port and starboard navigation lights.

My old Perko lights are mounted on both sides of my cabin, just forward of 
the focsle bulkhead. The wiring runs entirely inside the boat and has 
minimal corrison problems - although they do corrode. I switched to an LED 
masthead tri color light several years ago and am very happy with it. Don't 
even have the old Perkos connected anymore.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone

----- Reply message -----
From: "Gordon Laco" <mainstay at csolve.net>
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Subject: [Public-List] Port and starboard navigation lights.
Date: Thu, Nov 8, 2012 1:57 pm


Hello Stephen

I've switched Surprise over to LED. You can get LED 'bulbs' to fit any 
incandescent now. They aren't rated, but I have noticed they're much 
brighter and have more vivid colours than what I had.

And of course one can hardly measure the amps they draw...

Gord #426 Surprise.

On 2012-11-08, at 4:14 PM, Stephen Gwyn <stephen.gwyn at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> What do people for port and starboard navigation lights on their
> boats, and where do they put them? A quick Google image search
> indicates that most people have the older Perko lights, chromed
> brass, installed on wooden pads on the deck just inside the toe
> rail. That's what I have. But my set at least are highly unreliable.
> They're also dim and low down.
> Has anybody switched to LED lights?
> Has anybody installed lights elsewhere on the boat?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen
>
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