Replacement LED bulbs.

[Geoffs]

Had a halogen bulb blow in one of my cabin lights, recently, This prompted me into doing a bit of research into LED replacements.

Found some drop in ones for the cabin light (G4 fitting). Stuck one in as an experiment, have to say it is brilliant (sic!). Draws 140 mA as against 850 mA for the halogen. Described as 'warm white', but a little whiter than the halogens.

So I have drastically reduced the drain on my batteries.

Also found a wedge bulb that fits my anchor light. and tested this. Draws 60mA as against 800 for the filament one. If anything slightly brighter.

So I can have my anchor light on all night for less than 1 Amphour.

Led's are a bit more expensive, well a lot, £10 for the cabin ones and £4.95 for the anchor.

The vendors supply a little suppressor circuit to mop up and transients than might occur when switching large loads. Windlass, fridge etc., which can knacker LED's.

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

Which supplier did you use? I tried one of these from ultraleds.co.uk but found it too yellow in colour compared to the halogen bulb it was intended to replace:

Cheers
Jimmy

 

[rickp]

Found some drop in ones for the cabin light (G4 fitting). Stuck one in as an experiment, have to say it is brilliant (sic!). Draws 140 mA as against 850 mA for the halogen. Described as 'warm white', but a little whiter than the halogens.

Do they work with dimmers?

 

[Geoffs]

Got the wedge bulb from Consumabulbs

G4 came from Bedazzled

As I said the warm white is whiter than halogen (more blue). They do a 'cool white' which I guess will be even more blue.

The wedge bulb is quite a blue white, but fine for anchor, I reckon.

 

[Geoffs]

Don't know if they'd work with a dimmer, Rick. If the dimmer is resistive they may well work, although may not be as linear.