Another POV, I have heard a lot of discussion about this over the years, both ways, (White vs. Colored) but just a month ago I replaced several lites using Marinebeam.
I talked to the fellow there about colors, and he told me using a white light behind a colored lens only allowed around 30% of the light through, and using, say red behind a red lens allowed 80% through. I decided to follow his advice and going back and forth between white and red was a dramatic difference, the red behind red became bright blood red. Not sure I got the Percentages right, but Now I believe this. I agree with Dennis, nice company, good stuff. Bill Coleman C&C 39 Erie PA From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Joe Della Barba via CnC-List Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 9:15 AM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: Joe Della Barba Subject: Re: Stus-List Subject: Was Wire Gauge, now Where can I get LED? Warm white LEDs do OK behind a colored lens, but the usual cold white (5000-6000K) LEDs do NOT work for red or green running lights. The noise issue is caused by the switch-mode driver for the LEDs that produces a ton of RF. I have a bunch of FleaBay special LED light in my cabin lights and most of them are quiet on RF and one or two make a mess out of the SSB. There is a lot online you can find about various LED tricolors being noisy or not. For a replacement bulb, you might just have to go through a few and test them before you go up the mast. I have been thinking about trying to make LED red over greens, since they can used with the deck lights and the tricolor cannot. Here on the Chesapeake running under just a tricolor is a very good way to get run over by a powerboat. Joe Della Barba j...@dellabarba.com Coquina C&C 35 MK I From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Dennis C. via CnC-List Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 7:24 PM To: CnClist <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Cc: Dennis C. <capt...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Stus-List Subject: Was Wire Gauge, now Where can I get LED? I get my LED's from marinebeam.com. My impression is they are superior to Dr. LED. Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Jonathan Boocock via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: I installed LED's all around on my boat and had no issues with the running lights or anchor light. The 3 color tricolor from Dr. LED was another story. It produced noise on the VHR radio (antenna is no more than 1 foot from the tricolor) making VHF unusable with the tricolor on.. I tried a variety of RF chokes on it but it did not improve so I went back to an incandescent bulb. The issue was clearly with the 3 color LED bulb as we have no issue with the LED white anchor bulb which is mounted in the same housing as the tri-color. Jon C&C 44 Mor' Childs Play Kingston _______________________________________________ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
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