Hi Mike,
When the housing of the stock anchor light of my 12 year old SW1000 crumbled in
my hands a couple of years ago as I was trying to replace its bulb, I installed
the Orca Green Marine Trianchor light in its place. It provides both anchoring
and nav lights in one tight package with photodiode (turns itself on
automatically at night and off in the morning) and strobe (easy to find your
boat in dark nights at busy anchorages). They are coast guard approved and
power
consumption at anchor or navigating is less than a quarter what it used to be.
In order to have the strobe function I have had to run another (tiny, single)
conductor down the mast: that was a real bitch of a job. If I had to re-do it
I
would probably buy the unit without the strobe so that I could just use the
existing wires of the defunct anchor light.
Cheers,
Jack
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From: Michael Zotzky <mzotzky@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: scoaa-members@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, August 31, 2010 1:44:35 AM
Subject: [Scoaa-members] LED Navigation Light Bulbs
Has anyone replaced the bulbs in their nav lights with LED bulbs? I think the
Seawind 1000 has Aqua Signal 25 series lights. Dr LED makes bulbs that fit,
but
there are lots of posts on sailboatowners website from people that were not
happy with Dr LED bulb life, nor claims they are Coast Guard approved but not.
The local chandlery that stocks both Dr LED and Ancor recommends the Dr LED for
long life. Conflicting advice.
Mike
