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> I think all running lights and mast lights (motoring and anchor)
> should be
> replaced with LEDS as soon as possible, as suitable replacements
> become available.
Reply;
Such purpose designed retrofit led light bulbs have been available for
over a decade now from
www.firststarled.com
Disclaimer; I do own the Co. that makes these lights, and was the first
in the world to market such a light.
As for warm color temperature leds for cabin lights, it is no longer an
issue as some of the new Lumileds models and the Jupiter model of Nichia
America Corp. for example can be had with a wonderful color temp that is
exactly like that of an incandescent bulb.
For marine navigation lights, the trick is no longer being able to get
leds that are powerful enough, it is in being able to use the new leds
to produce the correct sector of light at the correct intensity
throughout without putting light where it should not be (for instance
bright red needs to be next to bright green with no fuzzy transition),
and do this in a compact cost effective package that supplies power to
the leds at the voltage needed no matter what the input voltage may be
while wasting as little electricity as possible, and maybe most
important of all nowdays, the device must get rid of all the heat the
leds make!
-Ken
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