Slowboat35
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If the Mods decide this is unacceptable advertising then so be it.
I post this simply as an impressed customer.
Lighting...
To date I've failed to find adequate LED lighting to read by - halogen works but canes the battery.
No longer.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08K3D44XV/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
This lamp really is 'brilliant'! 7Watt LED (!) flexi-stem with a gorilla-like clamp designed for tubing as well as flat surfaces plus cold/warm and amber light selectable at various intensities.
OK, it needs a USB connection but if you have 12v nearby that is a very simple and cheap addition.
It's satisfyingly heavy, solid and feels very robust indeed. It is also genuinely bright enough for serious readers to read by.
Being LED if you stuffed a plastic vending-cup or other translucent diffuser over it and turned it skywards on low power it would make the most superb economical anchor light visible for miles.
The other discovery is this amazing LED striplight.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07QN6GDRL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
IT's entirely self-contained, charged from a USB port, three levels of brightness (cold white only more's the pity) but impressively solid, heavy and substantial feeling in this age of paperlight flimsiness. Just over a foot long it has magnetic feet and comes with self adhesive metal discs for it to clap onto. Spare discs are available too.
The guff bleats on about 80 hours - well, go figure, but I ran it flat, charged it overnight and ran it on full from 0930 to 1730. That imho is pretty impressive.It is extremely bright on full power. It will make a superb area light for my cockpit at night, albeit perhaps with a modest amber filter over it and with magpads fixed in the engine bay will be a perfect cordless worklight too. It's also compact enough to carry as a floodlight for shore expeditions or use as cabin lighting for a whole evening and then some,
I'm chuffed to bits with both. This is what technology is for!
I post this simply as an impressed customer.
Lighting...
To date I've failed to find adequate LED lighting to read by - halogen works but canes the battery.
No longer.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08K3D44XV/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
This lamp really is 'brilliant'! 7Watt LED (!) flexi-stem with a gorilla-like clamp designed for tubing as well as flat surfaces plus cold/warm and amber light selectable at various intensities.
OK, it needs a USB connection but if you have 12v nearby that is a very simple and cheap addition.
It's satisfyingly heavy, solid and feels very robust indeed. It is also genuinely bright enough for serious readers to read by.
Being LED if you stuffed a plastic vending-cup or other translucent diffuser over it and turned it skywards on low power it would make the most superb economical anchor light visible for miles.
The other discovery is this amazing LED striplight.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07QN6GDRL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
IT's entirely self-contained, charged from a USB port, three levels of brightness (cold white only more's the pity) but impressively solid, heavy and substantial feeling in this age of paperlight flimsiness. Just over a foot long it has magnetic feet and comes with self adhesive metal discs for it to clap onto. Spare discs are available too.
The guff bleats on about 80 hours - well, go figure, but I ran it flat, charged it overnight and ran it on full from 0930 to 1730. That imho is pretty impressive.It is extremely bright on full power. It will make a superb area light for my cockpit at night, albeit perhaps with a modest amber filter over it and with magpads fixed in the engine bay will be a perfect cordless worklight too. It's also compact enough to carry as a floodlight for shore expeditions or use as cabin lighting for a whole evening and then some,
I'm chuffed to bits with both. This is what technology is for!
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