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Boat Forum / Cruising / July 2008Solar Powered Anchor Light ?? Portable ?? Anyone know where this can be bought?
Looking for a solar recharge portable anchor light. This would be a 360* white light, with recharge batteries, and small solar pick up someplace.. Anyone know where this can be bought? On Jul 21, 3:33 pm, "Thomas, Spring Point Light" <tomc...@verizon.net> wrote: > Looking for a solar recharge portable anchor light. > > This would be a 360* white light, with recharge batteries, > and small solar pick up someplace.. > > Anyone know where this can be bought? There are suppliers of high quality lights for nav aids and barges if you don't mind the price. A quick google gives this for instance: http://www.premiermaterials.com/Premiermaterials/solar.htm We use garden lights on our stanchions for courtesy lighting but they are not bright enough to be anchor lights. -- Tom. On Jul 21, 3:33 pm, "Thomas, Spring Point Light" <tomc...@verizon.net> wrote: > Looking for a solar recharge portable anchor light. > > This would be a 360* white light, with recharge batteries, > and small solar pick up someplace.. > > Anyone know where this can be bought? There are suppliers of high quality lights for nav aids and barges if you don't mind the price. A quick google gives this for instance: http://www.premiermaterials.com/Premiermaterials/solar.htm We use garden lights on our stanchions for courtesy lighting but they are not bright enough to be anchor lights. -- Tom. Why? I assume you already have an anchor light and a battery... why not just add a solar battery charger and not buy all the extra stuff. if you are leaving your boat alone you will want a bilge pump etc powered as well. >On Jul 21, 3:33 pm, "Thomas, Spring Point Light" <tomc...@verizon.net> >wrote: [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >just add a solar battery charger and not buy all the extra stuff. if you >are leaving your boat alone you will want a bilge pump etc powered as well. I changed out my anchor light by using one of the LED replacements that simply goes in the same bayonet socket that used to be for the incandescent lamp. These are now widely available for about $20. The incandescent drew 10 watts, and this LED replacement draws a hair over 1 watt for the same amount of light. Actually, I think the LED is quite a bit brighter. Bottom line - I now run it for 10 hours on the power that used to provide 1 hour. >>On Jul 21, 3:33 pm, "Thomas, Spring Point Light" <tomc...@verizon.net> >>wrote: [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > hours > on the power that used to provide 1 hour. I took a look at some LEDs for my running lights. I don't have the bayonet sockets, fyi. They seemed to be not nearly as bright, so I pulled them out. They make LED replacements with more elements, but they're much more than $20. I don't think they're quite ready for prime-time for running lights yet.  Signature"j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com >>>On Jul 21, 3:33 pm, "Thomas, Spring Point Light" <tomc...@verizon.net> >>>wrote: [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] >$20. I don't think they're quite ready for prime-time for running lights >yet. The anchor light, which burns all night with the engine off was my first priority, and I solved that for $20. The running lights are not run nearly as many hours, but do cost more to upgrade. Still not terribly expensive, since you don't have to replace the entire fixtures. My running lights use what is called a "festoon base" lamp, which is a glass cylinder with a contact at each end. I found some LED replacements that were plenty bright for those as well. Those incandescent running lights totaled 30 watts, or 3 amps, which on a sailboat with minimal charging ability is substantial. Three of these draws less than 5 watts total: http://www.bebi-electronics.com/afamakuaka.html Worth every penny, at least to me. >>>>On Jul 21, 3:33 pm, "Thomas, Spring Point Light" <tomc...@verizon.net> >>>>wrote: [quoted text clipped - 58 lines] > > Worth every penny, at least to me. Yes, I have the same festoon base... flat, not the protruding ends of the bulb. Thanks for the website... I'll check it out. Signature"j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com On Jul 22, 9:26 am, sa...@dog.com wrote: ... > http://www.bebi-electronics.com/afamakuaka.html ... These guys are friends of mine. Really good folks and I use one of their products in my anchor light and another in my tri-color. They are very bright and use very little power. AFIK, they don't make any plug in replacements. You will need to do a little (very simple and reversible) surgery to install their bulbs in your hardware. I didn't bother to replace my steaming light (mast head) or the bi-color and stern light as I only use them when under power. -- Tom. >On Jul 22, 9:26 am, sa...@dog.com wrote: >... [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >-- Tom. I had read about them somewhere, but it was a Google search for "Festoon" "LED", or something like that that "led" me to them. There are tons of festoon LED lamps on the internet, but most are intended to replace dome lights in cars. Totally unsuited as NAV lights. On Jul 21, 2:33 pm, "Thomas, Spring Point Light" <tomc...@verizon.net> wrote: > Looking for a solar recharge portable anchor light. > > This would be a 360* white light, with recharge batteries, > and small solar pick up someplace.. > > Anyone know where this can be bought? Depending on your boat length teh uscg have specific spec requirments for all lights on a boat. What ever light you get it must be seen from N miles to comply. So now how ya gona determine if the light complies? Some people place their life and other's life on an anchor light. For example, Skip and Lydia bet their life on a light rather than an anchor that is set and holds. Bob > Looking for a solar recharge portable anchor light. > > This would be a 360* white light, with recharge batteries, > and small solar pick up someplace.. > > Anyone know where this can be bought? A garden light perhaps? DP >> Looking for a solar recharge portable anchor light. >> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > DP ===================== Dennis,, I went to Lowes, Home Depot .. the garden lights were such junk.. hard to believe anyone buys this stuff.. But the tech of the garden light is perfect.. A little solar pick up, recharge battery, and an LeD light perfect. I may end up making my own... buy one landscape,, add an LED cluster rather than the one LED.. Thomas, Spring Point Light brought forth on stone tablets: >>>Looking for a solar recharge portable anchor light. >>> [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > than the > one LED.. I have 3 of http://www.outdoorlightingshowroom.com/driveway.htm installed on deck, pointing in various directions. This in addition to the CG required anchor light on the top of the mast, 65 feet above the water where no one tooling around the anchorage at night in a dinghy can see it. They are very bright, and last all thru the night. They are designed to be screwed to your driveway where they could get driven over, so they are tough. And I got mine at Harbor Freight for something like $8 each, although the online catalog doesn't show them. bob s/v Eolian Downeast 45, hull #11 Seattle RW Salnick brought forth on stone tablets: > Thomas, Spring Point Light brought forth on stone tablets: > [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > Downeast 45, hull #11 > Seattle I found them! Here they are priced at 4 for $36: http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=92067 bob s/v Eolian Seattle > Thomas, Spring Point Light brought forth on stone tablets: > [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > Downeast 45, hull #11 > Seattle Do you cover them when under way at night? Are you concerned they might create a confusing navigation signal when under way at night? sailinstuff@yahoo.com brought forth on stone tablets: >>Thomas, Spring Point Light brought forth on stone tablets: >> [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > Do you cover them when under way at night? Are you concerned they > might create a confusing navigation signal when under way at night? They have a switch - I just turn them off. bob |
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