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From: 'bella
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 3:03 AM
Subject: [Liveaboard] led masthead lights..
Anyone installed one... how well did it do.. as bright as the hype said it
would be.. cost?
If by masthead, you mean the white light that has to be displayed by a motor
vessel under way, commonly found on sailboats about 2/3 up the mast, not me.
That's what the Coast Guard calls masthead lights, so I've gotten in the habit
of calling them that, too.
If you mean one of those things which has tricolor and anchor light in one unit
and goes on top of the mast, I have one. I call them sailing and anchor
lights; others call them masthead lights and, I presume, something else :{))
It's the bees knees. Got it from John and Libbie at Hotwire, there at the
shows. Orca, I believe, very small and tidy and absolutely brilliant.
I went with the solar shutoff anchor light, not strobe version, as strobe is
strictly emergency use or get big trouble and a bunch more.
I've got pix of the installation in my gallery, somewhere, I'm sure. I don't
recall for sure the price, and that was a couple of years ago, so things may
well have changed, but memory sez ~300bx.
Took a pair of (single strand, not jacketed, to save space) #16 or 18, I forget
which, on which polarity is reversed to make either anchor or sailing lights.
I love it.
L8R
Skip
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