George, I bought a set, too. I like the lights a lot. The stern light makes a great (not legal) anchor light and burns for many nights on a set of AAs. But I second your opinion of the clamps. I need to kluge something together that is more secure (although probably ugly). Bill Riker M15 - #184 Storm Petrel -----Original Message----- From: montgomery_boats-bounces+wriker=mindspring.com@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:montgomery_boats-bounces+wriker=mindspring.com@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of George Burmeyer Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 12:07 AM To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats Subject: Re: M_Boats: L.E.D. "Retrofit" Craig, You can also get LED portable lights from Defender (page 321 of their new catalog or on line). They are made by Innovative Lighting. The catalog lists a krypton replacement bulb as well as an LED replacement which suggests to me that you might be able to retrofit a standard fixture w/ LEDs. BTW, the clamp mounts on these things are not the greatest quality and unless they are mounted on a nice square board (not a sloping fiberglass deck edge or steel rail), I wouldn't trust them to stay put for long. George M15 #385 On 3/26/05 3:52 PM, "Larry E Yake" <leyake@juno.com> wrote:
Craig,
You can get portable LED navigation lights through Cabelas. The come on a C clamp mounting bracket, use 4 AA batteries, last up to 100 hours on a set of batteries, and cost $22 each. I found them in their catalog, but I'm sure they would be on the web site, too. www.cabelas.com
Larry
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:17:22 -0500 "Craig F. Honshell" <chonshell@ia4u.net> writes:
After reading about Bill's Ankerlight (excellent link, Bill, thanks for sharing), I started wondering:
Could the portable "dinghy nav lights", such as those previously available through West Marine by Aqua Signal (and now available through West Marine in some brand I don't recognize), be retrofit with L.E.D. bulbs?
These AA-battery powered dinghy nav lights with mounting bracket options are good backups . . . But the standard bulbs go through batteries quickly.
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