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  • 03 Oct 2011 05:46
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    Paul Thompson wrote:
    Neil Tanner wrote:Gary, I just uploaded a couple of pictures of a set of swiveling reading lights I made for the vee-berth on Sea Elf using Bebi led's and pvc.  The really do a good job.

    Where did you upload them to Neil? They are not in your profile.

    Hey Paul...yeah that's where I needed to put them but they went into boat picture section instead.....I need to shuffle them around.

    Paul, I've deleted them from the boat photo section and have now placed them in their proper place in my profile section.

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  • 03 Oct 2011 04:50
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    Neil Tanner wrote:Gary, I just uploaded a couple of pictures of a set of swiveling reading lights I made for the vee-berth on Sea Elf using Bebi led's and pvc.  The really do a good job.

    Where did you upload them to Neil? They are not in your profile.
  • 03 Oct 2011 02:31
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    But a really, really good idea that is cheap and almost legal is to use one of those solar-powered garden lights for an anchor light.  You need to change the Ni Cad battery for NiMh (I think that's correct) of high capacity.  If you do this, the light will work fine even after a couple of cloudy days.  Now you can't see them from a mile off, I realise, but you can see them at a good distance, and you never forget to switch them on and you can leave them on your moored boat and feel happier about people sailing into her.  Fantail has a pulpit and now that I no longer have bits of cloth flapping about round there, I have secured my lamp in place there, so it's in the right part of the boat.  Even more important, if you are using an LED light for an anchor light, it is down at boat level and not up at the top of the mast masquerading as a star or planet.  In reality, how often does anyone need to see your boat at a distance of over a mile, anyway?  In this case better illegally lit than not lit at all, which seems to be a very common choice.

    And if my cheap option for t'other lights had worked, I'd of been OK.  Pout.
  • 03 Oct 2011 00:53
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    Gary, I just uploaded a couple of pictures of a set of swiveling reading lights I made for the vee-berth on Sea Elf using Bebi led's and pvc.  The really do a good job.
  • 02 Oct 2011 15:35
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    Paul Thompson wrote:Well if Grasshopper's lights don't work, you're illegal anyway aren't you? 

    Now children...
  • 02 Oct 2011 06:28
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    Well if Grasshopper's lights don't work, you're illegal anyway aren't you? 
  • 02 Oct 2011 05:34
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    And Grasshoppers also tend to have shallow pockets, which leads them to making unwise decisions, aka penny wise pound foolish!  Shall I be legal now, or illegal until I can afford the Proper Thing?
  • 01 Oct 2011 21:56
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    Jeff McFadden wrote
    In recent conversations with Maddog he has applied so much pressure to me to choose Bebi that I would be risking my personal health if I chose otherwise and then faced him. :-)
    Annie my dear, are you hard of listening? (Ducks head and runs.)

    Well the dog is most definitely correct as far as Bebi goes. For Nav lights, if you do not have a housing (as Bebi just sells the LED array, not a complete unit) just get yourself a conventional unit to modify.

    I used AquaSignal 40 units  as I already had them (and I suspect the same for Maddog who used the same units). However I think the cheap AAA housings may also do the trick. Other possibility would be secondhand units.

    Grasshoppers normally have acute hearing but are known to have (at times) short attention spans.
  • 01 Oct 2011 12:16
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    Paul Thompson wrote:Jeff,

    Bebi also get my vote. It's what the Oracle recommended to Annie but she still appears to have hearing problems :-). I've used Bebi for interior and nav lights. Bebi are proper marine LED's and they have voltage regulation built in, an absolute must if you want your LED's to last the claimed 100 000 hours.

    My dealings with Bebi have been very pleasant, they are quick to respond, knowledgeable about their product and are sailors to boot.

    In recent conversations with Maddog he has applied so much pressure to me to choose Bebi that I would be risking my personal health if I chose otherwise and then faced him. :-)
    Annie my dear, are you hard of listening? (Ducks head and runs.)
  • 01 Oct 2011 08:33
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    Jeff,

    Bebi also get my vote. It's what the Oracle recommended to Annie but she still appears to have hearing problems :-). I've used Bebi for interior and nav lights. Bebi are proper marine LED's and they have voltage regulation built in, an absolute must if you want your LED's to last the claimed 100 000 hours.

    My dealings with Bebi have been very pleasant, they are quick to respond, knowledgeable about their product and are sailors to boot.
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