Nasa anchor light failure

[nimbusgb]

My nasa led anchor light failed this week. Turned on perhaps 25 times in 10 months since fitting. Will replace with another make now, the hassle of fitting and now refitting at the masthead and tales of other failures have driven the final nail into any faith I had in their products. Removing the nasa navtex and replacing with furuno as well. When you have only short holidays on your boat you want reliable kit.

Nasa tricolour, nasa anchor light ( to be repaired ) 2 * nasa navtex pros will be on sale at seasons end once I get them back from Greece.

 

[steve6367]

What did NASA say out of interest?

 

[nimbusgb]

Not spoken to them yet. Just landed from flight back from Greece. Frankly it doesn't matter. On a two week break . I have to spend the best part of a day finding someone to climb the mast, unbolt the fitting, draw up a mouse line , sacrifice a 2 way waterproof connector and put a temporary light in place. Next trip send someone up to mount new one and waste another couple of hours and another bunch of Euros.

The savings on the original price are now completely blown and I have little faith in the kit.

 

[NormanS]

Well for starters, why put the anchor light at the masthead?
And why, if the anchor light has failed, take your spite out on the Navtex?

 

[nimbusgb]

Spite?

Anchor light at masthead is where most are mounted and I know that it doesn't have to be there. Oh and that's where the wiring is!

Navtext has messages from last season but appears to be refusing to get this seasons messages, second set was bought for use in uk. We had 2 F7 nights and an F7 F8 day in two weeks and working navtex would have been useful if only as a backup.

Btw. My old CQR is going to be relegated to the lazzarette as a spare too. After lots of reliable service in the med it let me down in both of the big blows and will be replaced with a Rocna after chats with trusted sailing friends in the Ionian.

 

[rivonia]

Funny old world innit. We also dithched the CQR for a ROCNA and have not regretted it. However we also have had trouble with NASA wind instruments at the top of mast and the year before the ANCHOR light. But they were most helpful and we have stuck with them.

Good luck

 

[rogerthebodger]

My NASA Tri colour light has failed twice now and have repaired both timed by replacing some of the LED's. They have gone open circuit both times.

My anchor light which is mounted above the tri colour has not failed once during the same time period.

NASA want me to send it back for then to inspect but its cheaper for my to repair.

The LED's I replaced are mainly the green (all replaced) and red (half replaced) with only one white failure to date.