Cockpit Lights

[papogator24]

Hey guys, I just got back from cleaning my boat today. I forgot to get the part number for the cockpit lights. I am trying to find lights that give out white lights instead of that ugly amber lights. Can anyone help? This is for an 07 240DA.

Thanks :thumbsup:

 

[Four Suns]

I have used yachtlights.com for several things on my boat. I replaced the interior flush lights with these:

http://www.yachtlights.com/item--Susy--29

They are a higher quality halogen light made by Cantalupi and have a bigger reflector inside. The original halogen Sea Ray lights had the gold finish coming off. The cockpit and bridge lights on the 480 DB are Cantalupi lights already. Because they are all halogen they are a fairly white light to begin with. The interior lights have a "yellow" lens so the light is amber regardless of the bulb. The cockpit lights, however, have a white lens.

You may want to check out yachtlights.com and see some of the LED bulb replacements for halogen bulbs. Those may be what you are looking for as their light is very white (I think they almost are too white/blue).

http://www.yachtlights.com/cat--LED-Bulbs--ledbulbs

If you don't have halogen lights but have incandescent bulbs, I would move to halogen first and see if that is white enough.

 

[papogator24]

Thanks Gary, I have halogen bulbs. Now, the link you gave me, now which type fits into our cockpit lights? :smt100 I did a search on our standard cockpit lights from our owner's manual and it seems like the standard bulb is a double contact bayonet.

 

[Four Suns]

The Cantalupi lights (actually all the halogens on my boat) are G4 bulbs. The fixtures are rated for 20w but I think Sea Ray puts 10w bulbs in them. I've replaced all the bulbs to 20w in the bigger recessed lights since that is what they are rated at. If you wanted to go with an LED conversion, look for a G4 bulb socket but make sure you have a big enough reflecter dish in the as the LED lights are bigger.

I was parked next to a boat last year that replaced his outside bulbs with LED's and it is definitlly a different look.

 

[Bounty]

The Cantalupi lights (actually all the halogens on my boat) are G4 bulbs. The fixtures are rated for 20w but I think Sea Ray puts 10w bulbs in them. I've replaced all the bulbs to 20w in the bigger recessed lights since that is what they are rated at. If you wanted to go with an LED conversion, look for a G4 bulb socket but make sure you have a big enough reflecter dish in the as the LED lights are bigger.

I was parked next to a boat last year that replaced his outside bulbs with LED's and it is definitlly a different look.

Good info. The reason Sea Ray puts the lower voltage lights in is probably to cause them never to burn out.