William_H
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Reged: 28/07/2003
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Loc: West Australia
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If you only need an anchor light occasionally then you don't want to invest in the traditional copper oil lamp.
If you feel like fiddling then LEDs from electronics shop are in the order of 80p each and 4 in series will draw 50 milliamps from a 12v battery using a 100 ohm series resistor. Get the data sheet for the LED and using a multimeter adjust the resistor value to get the correct current. Buy the highest brightness white LEDs you can get (but not those super bright high current ones) you want the type used in small flashlights.
If you think 50 milliamps is too much from your main battery then use a small SLA battery (or one of those emergency start power packs or even AA rechageables.
The 4 LEDs should be mounted facing each direction of azimuth. If you have doubts about the visibility (coverage of all directions) then add another 4 to fill the gaps in between to make 8 points of the compass. However with natural movement of the boat and changing angle of approach of another boat 4 should do the job.
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TonyS
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Reged: 23/02/2003
Posts: 379
Loc: Southampton, UK
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I bought it on e-bay from
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?V...E:X:AAQ:GB:1123
The actual price with postage was £6.84 with Buy it now.
I did 2 small mods. I got a cycle tube and cut 2 rings. These slide over the 2 joins in the plastic casing and ensure that it is totally waterproof rather than weatherproof.
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VicS
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Reged: 13/07/2002
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Loc: Home: Kent. Boat: Chichester
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Thats looks pretty neat. What i did find though with 12 LED lanterns was that they are rather directional, giving a very bright light in four directions. NSE&W as it were and very less bright in between. I guess if they move about a bit that gives them a bit of a twinkling effect.
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TonyS
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Reged: 23/02/2003
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Loc: Southampton, UK
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It has a sort of Fresnel lens and I was really pleasantly surprised how good, bright and non directional it was.
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Gordonmc
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Reged: 19/09/2001
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Loc: h Riddon
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Thanks for the link. I have just ordered an Amazon lamp to replace the Chinese-made brass hurry lamp I bought from a chandler.
The wick trimmer failed on its first use... luckily the one from an old rusty army lamp fitted - just but in anything over a F4 the it blew out.
It looks the part but is totally impractical.
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Mudhook
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Reged: 16/10/2001
Posts: 267
Loc: South Norfolk
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I've been using one of those cheapy chinese ones, very rusty, for years, and it never goes out. It will go a long winter night on a fill-up, several summer nights, it reasobaly visible and quite charming. The only fiddle is occasionally removing ad cleaning the glass, about twice a year.
Regards, Mudhook.
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Morgana
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Reged: 28/08/2003
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Loc: East Coast
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The Feuer Hand ones are only £15 delivered on eBay...
here
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VicS
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Reged: 13/07/2002
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Loc: Home: Kent. Boat: Chichester
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Quote:
It has a sort of Fresnel lens
It sounds more and more like the sort of thing I want. I think I'll take the details into our local camping centre and see if they can help. I'd like to see before I buy (not that it helped me with the Maplin one .. could not have switched brain on that day)
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trouville
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Reged: 10/06/2004
Posts: 2847
Loc: crusing with an Arpège
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The Feuer hand is a good lantern,ive use a large yellow one for years but always worried about haveing a lantern with one liter of parrafin tied above the deck.
I bought a proper anchor light in brass with dioptic lense that has a hard to light parrafin lamp which lasts the night with about half a gill of parrafin and gives a great light
They cost me about £50!!!But worth it
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TonyS
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Reged: 23/02/2003
Posts: 379
Loc: Southampton, UK
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Have you looked at the Kampa web site - on box. They have several different models. I wanted one with rechargeable AA batteries as my hand held GPS, LW radio, portable TV, etc etc all use AA batteries and the new ones are 2.7Ah and last a long time.
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