All-Round White LED Bulbs

[Appledore]

Whilst I have my mast down I am thinking about replacing the existing 10 watt standard type bulb with an LED one. This is for a combined anchor-all-round white light (part of my Tri-colour and white lamp.

£26.50 for an anchor/all round white seems a lot of cash when I could buy a 'Dusk to Dawn' bulb for half the price. I may even have gone for the ordinary Navigation white bulb, even cheaper. My boat is only 6.7 meters, not that that makes much difference, but just in case anyone asks.
What do the 'panel' suggest please? Or should I just use the existing bulb?

Thanks in advance.

BAY15D - Dusk to Dawn - 15SMD 5050 LED Replacement Bulb - £12.95
http://www.boatlamps.co.uk/contents/en-uk/d85.html

NAVIGATION BAY15D
£9.50
http://www.searolf.com/store/p6/NAVIGATION_ _BAY15D.html

ANCHOR / MASTHEAD LIGHT
£26.50
http://www.searolf.com/store/p75/ANCHOR_/_MASTHEAD_LIGHT_.html

 

[C08]

I have had a Searolf LED bulb set for 4 years now and all ok. I think I paid about £30 for a set of 3?

 

[RAI]

I chose to replace my anchor filament bulb with an LED, just to save power. However, a mast top anchor light is not always in an ideal position, being so high up, so I mount another LED light on the end of the boom.

 

[Sailingsaves]

The £9.50 bulb on your list states it is half the wattage of the £26 bulb, but twice the lumens.

Check that is correct and if so, no-brainer?

Dusk to dawn bulb at mast head and you hit fog and want light on?

 

[NormanS]

My anchor light is at a height where someone approaching, in a boat, can see it, and realise that it's not a light in the sky. It has a dawn to dusk switch, and I changed the light to LED.

For £2.99 I got FOUR all round white bright LEDs from ebay. The details are:-
4x5SMD LED BA9S T4W Bayonet Cap 360 HID XENON White Side Light. (No, I don't know what all that means).

I think, but not sure that the £2.99 included postage. They were from "buyeasy-fr". There doesn't seem to be any need to pay inflated prices for LEDs.

 

[Yngmar]

I went for these and am quite happy with them. The bulb is cast into waterproof silicone and the whole unit is pretty good quality. Price is reasonable, unlike what the marine-specific importers ask for. When you install them, dip the contacts into silicone grease - keeps water away from them and thus you'll not have to climb up to wiggle the bulb because the contacts won't corrode that way.

 

[JumbleDuck]

I replaced both my masthead lamps with Boatlamps BAY15D ones - warm white for the tricolour and cool white for the all round. They work a treat, the lights are far brighter than they were and power consumption has gone to stuff all.

On the KISS principle, I wouldn't bother with the inbuilt dawn-to-dusk switch version.

 

[NormanS]

On the KISS principle, I wouldn't bother with the inbuilt dawn-to-dusk switch version.

I don't think dawn to dusk switches are terribly complicated. All our street lights are controlled this way.

For an anchor light the d to d switch is a great thing. People don't know that you're having a long lie, cos the light switches itself of in the morning.

 

[JumbleDuck]

I don't think dawn to dusk switches are terribly complicated. All our street lights are controlled this way.

So are ours. The system seems to break down more-or-less annually.

For an anchor light the d to d switch is a great thing. People don't know that you're having a long lie, cos the light switches itself of in the morning.

Good point. Mind you, I use a hurricane lamp as my anchor light - the all-round white at the masthead is for motoring.

 

[Hadenough]

Hurricane lamp anchor lights! I'm on the east coast and the barges and luggers love them. Dunno why they waste money putting wicks and paraffin in them though because you can't see them beyond about 25yds.

 

[Appledore]

Just to close this thread, I'm going with JumbleDuck's suggestion of Boatlamps' Cool White bulb. Seems to more than adequately cover all my needs, and less power drain.

Thanks to all

Geoff