Re: [Cal_Boats] LED running light modification

I hate to say it, but I went to West Marine and bought them. I am very satisfied. I used them for the Ensenada Race. With Tacktics and a chart plotter running. My battery stayed up all night. Randy Cal 2-29 Out Patient Channel Islands Ca. Chris Campbell <cc… [at] lsnm.org> wrote: Listmates: While sailing along in a light breeze last night (beating a Catalina 25 with a genoa in my Cal 20 with working jib), I was thinking about LED running lights. That's because it's getting late in the season and dark comes earlier now. Both my Cal 20 and the other boat, the 1961 Seafarer, use standard bayonet-base incandescent bulbs in their running lights. The other boat, at least, and maybe the Cal, require a tall bulb shape to get the filament into the right location. It would be very nice to replace all the incandescents with LEDs. That would require getting an LED bulb with just the right exposure of the lighting elements to fit the running light fixture. So it would probably be easiest to send off the light fixtures to the LED supplier to get the right configuration. Does anybody have good experience with companies that might do this? Chris Campbell Cal 20 #1220 (prettiest boat on Grand Traverse Bay)

Try Batteries Plus, They have allot of different types on hand or can get them in about same cost maybe cheaper than West Marine --- On Wed, 8/22/12, Randy <sa… [at] yahoo.com> wrote: From: Randy <sa… [at] yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] LED running light modification To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, August 22, 2012, 10:29 AM I hate to say it, but I went to West Marine and bought them. I am very satisfied. I used them for the Ensenada Race. With Tacktics and a chart plotter running. My battery stayed up all night. Randy Cal 2-29 Out Patient Channel Islands Ca. Chris Campbell <cc… [at] lsnm.org> wrote: Listmates: While sailing along in a light breeze last night (beating a Catalina 25 with a genoa in my Cal 20 with working jib), I was thinking about LED running lights. That's because it's getting late in the season and dark comes earlier now. Both my Cal 20 and the other boat, the 1961 Seafarer, use standard bayonet-base incandescent bulbs in their running lights. The other boat, at least, and maybe the Cal, require a tall bulb shape to get the filament into the right location. It would be very nice to replace all the incandescents with LEDs. That would require getting an LED bulb with just the right exposure of the lighting elements to fit the running light fixture. So it would probably be easiest to send off the light fixtures to the LED supplier to get the right configuration. Does anybody have good experience with companies that might do this? Chris Campbell Cal 20 #1220 (prettiest boat on Grand Traverse Bay)