Take the old one out and go to Ace Hardware with it. They have lots of replacement lamps. Ours is a fluorescent T5 lamp. The old one was cool white, the new one is warm white and it makes a large difference - the lamp color is important, too.
Have you ever thought about changing the insides over to LED and keeping the same fixture. The lights are bright and low amps, and will last a lot longer. I have done all of ours and tossed the florescent out. The ones that I used are very simple to insert. It will cost you more at first, and it take 2 screws to mount the insert into the old fixture. If you would like I will add the web site.
Randy
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Randy Sherwood Mutualfun 1990 # 1057 T/R W/K M35a Home. Charlotte, Mi. Boat. St Augustine,Fl.
Here is the link to the strip lights I bought. I picked them up last year at the Strictly Sail in Chicago for $20 each but I see they have went up in price.
[url]http://mastlight.com/Products/HL-40LEDDCW.html[/url]
What I did was took everything out that was used for the florescent and used the power in leads to splice into for the LED strip. Looking at it you can not tell it was altered unless you take the white lens cover off.
As for the rest of the light. The only one I have that is a regular bulb is the deck light, Everything else is now LED on our boat. There is a old post I think back someplace that I wrote about changing over the inside lights and where I got them from. I had pictures of the whole process I did but it was on my laptop which got stolen. I will be going back to the boat this week and will take a few pictures of the finished lights for all to view. The Lights I used for the inside came from Menard's and has I think 18 lights in the puck. You have to do some rework but if your handy it is a cheap and great way to go.
Randy
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Randy Sherwood Mutualfun 1990 # 1057 T/R W/K M35a Home. Charlotte, Mi. Boat. St Augustine,Fl.
Randy,
Your light-swappng project would be a GREAT addition to JibSheet, Mainsheet, and/or the website. If you could take a few pictures and write a few lines about what you did, I'd be happy to post it for you. Thanks!
Give me about a week Tom to do that. I am a couple of hours from the boat and just waiting to see what happens with the current snow storm we are getting currently. Once I can travel I will go and get a few pictures for everyone.
Randy
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Randy Sherwood Mutualfun 1990 # 1057 T/R W/K M35a Home. Charlotte, Mi. Boat. St Augustine,Fl.
Here are a couple of pictures of the lamps I converted over to LED. The strip light has white white lens taken off and the flash from the camera made viewing the other hard. Sorry about them not being the best but it was 12 degrees in the boat and my fingers were dam cold.
Randy
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Randy Sherwood Mutualfun 1990 # 1057 T/R W/K M35a Home. Charlotte, Mi. Boat. St Augustine,Fl.
There are a variety of places to buy (auto/Rv, etc.) Below is a link you can try.
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Allan Rex
# 2216
Lane
I bought one for Caprice at Home Depot a year or so ago. Mine is 12" at 8 watts, 12 volts.
Mike
__/)__/)__/)__Capt Mike__/)__/)__/)__
Punta Gorda Florida
1990 Std WK M35 Hull #1050
Take the old one out and go to Ace Hardware with it. They have lots of replacement lamps. Ours is a fluorescent T5 lamp. The old one was cool white, the new one is warm white and it makes a large difference - the lamp color is important, too.
Stu Jackson, C34IA Secretary, C34 #224, 1986, SR/FK, M25 engine, Rocna 10 (22#)
Have you ever thought about changing the insides over to LED and keeping the same fixture. The lights are bright and low amps, and will last a lot longer. I have done all of ours and tossed the florescent out. The ones that I used are very simple to insert. It will cost you more at first, and it take 2 screws to mount the insert into the old fixture. If you would like I will add the web site.
Randy
Randy Sherwood
Mutualfun 1990 # 1057
T/R W/K M35a
Home. Charlotte, Mi.
Boat. St Augustine,Fl.
Randy, Please go ahead and add the website. Also, did you change any of the other lights over to LED while keeping the old fixture?
Thanks,
Mark Wey
Mark Wey
Terrmar III #2179
Goderich Ont.
I would be interested in seeing your lighting upgrade as well.
Thanks
Allan Rex
# 2216
Here is the link to the strip lights I bought. I picked them up last year at the Strictly Sail in Chicago for $20 each but I see they have went up in price.
[url]http://mastlight.com/Products/HL-40LEDDCW.html[/url]
What I did was took everything out that was used for the florescent and used the power in leads to splice into for the LED strip. Looking at it you can not tell it was altered unless you take the white lens cover off.
As for the rest of the light. The only one I have that is a regular bulb is the deck light, Everything else is now LED on our boat. There is a old post I think back someplace that I wrote about changing over the inside lights and where I got them from. I had pictures of the whole process I did but it was on my laptop which got stolen. I will be going back to the boat this week and will take a few pictures of the finished lights for all to view. The Lights I used for the inside came from Menard's and has I think 18 lights in the puck. You have to do some rework but if your handy it is a cheap and great way to go.
Randy
Randy Sherwood
Mutualfun 1990 # 1057
T/R W/K M35a
Home. Charlotte, Mi.
Boat. St Augustine,Fl.
Randy,
Your light-swappng project would be a GREAT addition to JibSheet, Mainsheet, and/or the website. If you could take a few pictures and write a few lines about what you did, I'd be happy to post it for you. Thanks!
Tom Sokoloski
C36/375IA Past Commodore
Noank, CT
Give me about a week Tom to do that. I am a couple of hours from the boat and just waiting to see what happens with the current snow storm we are getting currently. Once I can travel I will go and get a few pictures for everyone.
Randy
Randy Sherwood
Mutualfun 1990 # 1057
T/R W/K M35a
Home. Charlotte, Mi.
Boat. St Augustine,Fl.
Randy - Thanks for the link, I went and ordered a couple strip lights for myself.
Craig
Craig Illman, Seattle
S/V Espresso C34 #1150 1991
Here are a couple of pictures of the lamps I converted over to LED. The strip light has white white lens taken off and the flash from the camera made viewing the other hard. Sorry about them not being the best but it was 12 degrees in the boat and my fingers were dam cold.
Randy
Randy Sherwood
Mutualfun 1990 # 1057
T/R W/K M35a
Home. Charlotte, Mi.
Boat. St Augustine,Fl.