Windex aerial mount thingy....

[Matata]

We have one of those excellent salty jon aerials with a windex on top of it. The tri colour sits beside it. The idea been the tri lights up the underneath of the windex at night. This only works if the windex is approx. 6 -8 " above the line of the mast tricolour . Ours is horizontal and hence doesn't "light up" .Any suggestions? Any purpose built mounting? Nik

 

[alahol2]

LEDs are so cheap and reliable these days that you could probably place a single LED at the base of the aerial to shine up onto the windex. Take the power from the base of the masthead light.

 

[VicS]

We have one of those excellent salty jon aerials with a windex on top of it. The tri colour sits beside it. The idea been the tri lights up the underneath of the windex at night. This only works if the windex is approx. 6 -8 " above the line of the mast tricolour . Ours is horizontal and hence doesn't "light up" .Any suggestions? Any purpose built mounting? Nik

My Tricolour is mounted on a piece of aluminium angle bolted to the side of the mast head crane.

My wind indicator mounting is made from a smaller piece of the same angle, also bolted to the masthead crane.

Their mounting heights are therefore the same to within a few mm, putting the wind indicator itself well above the light.

FWIW I found that mounting the wind indicator to one side unsatisfactory. It is now as near as I can get it on the centre line.


Sorry one of the few parts of the boat not photographed

 

[Matata]

Love that led idea.lateral thinking!!!!1 ta

 

[yoda]

Mine is bolted to the top of the combined tri-colour/anchor light. Seems to work OK

Yoda

 

[ga1135]

How I made it

I drilled a hole on the top Tri-light to lead the powerline to share the Tri-light power sources, then fix a windex light on top of the light unit + seal the wire insert hole by sealent. See photos

 

[VicS]

Mine is bolted to the top of the combined tri-colour/anchor light. Seems to work OK

Yoda

I drilled a hole on the top Tri-light to lead the powerline to share the Tri-light power sources, then fix a windex light on top of the light unit + seal the wire insert hole by sealent. See photos

Doesn't the coax cable to the aerial obstruct the light ?

Or not sufficiently to worry about ........... compared with the weather station up there

Or have you been able to spiral it round the light to minimize the obstruction?

 

[alahol2]

Doesn't the coax cable to the aerial obstruct the light ?

Or not sufficiently to worry about ........... compared with the weather station up there

Or have you been able to spiral it round the light to minimize the obstruction?

It looks like he's only put a new bulb on top of his tri-light. The windex has stayed bolted to the mast cap.

 

[ga1135]

This Photo shows more clearly.
The tiny power wire won't affect the light viewing from distance.

 

[VicS]

It looks like he's only put a new bulb on top of his tri-light. The windex has stayed bolted to the mast cap.

Oh of course
It was the earlier statement " Mine is bolted to the top of the combined tri-colour/anchor light. Seems to work OK", that threw me. I took it that to mean the whole aerial and windex thing.

You can fit just a plain Windex or Hawk to the top of some lights I was thinking that idea had been extended to the combined aerial and Windex.

I wonder if it would be possible to drill a little hole in the top of the tricolour and fit a little lens.

These electric navigation lights will never catch on anyway.