One last time on the cockpit light question!?!?

[Liquid Pleasure II]

What is the BEST color to change the cockpit lights to?? Blue, red.... and what is the right bulb to get. I am on an inland freshwater lake. I need the specifics on where to get it....last time I got a website and ended up getting a bulb that wasn't even for marine use!
HELP!!

 

[KHARRIMAN]

I've read all over this forum and I just made a purchase
www.superbrightleds.com I'll post comments on what shows up and about intensity etc...
I wanted to switch out the lower cockpit lights (2)
I got the ones under marine ba9- bayonette base, which are the ones that are the push down half screw.
What and where did you order so others can avoid the mistake....
Colors: The general consensus is that colors in the blue spectrum- including all manners of blue, white and green attract more bugs- but will be more "intense" due to the higher energy wavelengths of these colors.
Red and amber colors are harder for insects to detect but are less "intense". I too am on mostly inland lakes so i got red. my $.02

 

[Liquid Pleasure II]

Does the red provide enough cockpit light to be effective??
I like the blue hue as I have seen it on other Dancers but the bug issue is top of mind in the sticky midwest?
Thoughts?

 

[sanchita]

To preserve your night vision use red lights.

 

[Four Suns]

Blue lights on a boat make it look like some mexican's low-rider tuner car... Gimmick....

 

[Arizona240DA]

I take offense to this comment, you racist…

Blue lights on a boat make it look like some mexican's low-rider tuner car... Gimmick....

 

[Arizona240DA]

GOD DAMN IT, everyone please disregard my previous post, Scott is absolutely right.

Everything is cool anyway, Gary has invited my wife and I for Thanksgiving dinner…we are looking very forward to the hospitality.

 

[Groucho]

I've tried a couple different colors of LED's, they are either too bright or too dim....guess what, I'm going back to the plain old stock bulbs.

 

[KHARRIMAN]

I rec. my lights from superbright....and said I would comment but I can't... I ordered the wrong ones :smt021.
The 280 has a total of (4) lights outside- the rest are in compartments(under sink, transom locker, bilge etc..) two in the cockpit(floor) and two in the tower/arch. I ordered the BA-9mm WRONG WRONG!. The bulbs in the floor are 15 mm DOUBLE contact bayonette base. It's my own fault for not paying attention and reading when I ordered. When you go to www.superbrightleds.com and click on marine there's a little picture of bayonnette base bulbs...it's NOT that one for the 280. Anywho....i've reordered. Just saving someone else the frustration.

 

[sanchita]

Didn't read prior posts. Did a quick answer of red because as an airplane pilot preserving night vision is pounded into you til you get it. One way is red instrument lights, red lense on flash lights, etc. and wear sunglasses during the day.

 

[sbw1]

Why not have two colors? We use our white hardtop lights for reading at night in the helm cockpit. When it's party time, the whites go off and the reds come on.

 

[sanchita]

True

Perhaps some will be lured there like the red light district in Amsterdam

 

[sanchita]

Well, you have a 340 DA (fish package?), must be doing something ight. Of course it is said a boat is a wood, fiberglass, or metal hole in the water in which you through endless amounts of money and I guess an airplane is an aluminum hole in the air in which you through endless amounts of money. However the outcome can be fun at times. Spending the weekend on mine, fishing this weekend. Yee Haa

 

[KHARRIMAN]

1142-R19 Red LED bulb .

Ok...this is the bulb I got from superbright(narrow beam).
The fixtures in my cockpit are atwood flush-mount now...
These bulbs do NOT direct fit into the fixtures.
These bulbs are too long...
When the bayonette harness is snapped into the fixture there is not enough clearance so....what I had to do was remove the black bayonette harness from the fixture and leave it hanging off the back...the large part of the bulb will hold it in place but not real securely- am working on a fix.
--Bottom line- these are not plug and play they will require a little modification to use.
Brightness..... I would say that it is medium-high- enough to see clearly by to manuver around the cockpit but not enough to read(say a book) without straining
I tried to take pictures but they are mostly too dark and I can't seem to capture the tru look. The pics don't really show how bright they really are. Will Try again tonight.
--Kevin

 

[KHARRIMAN]

A little camera jiggling goes a long way!

Hope this Helps!
--Kevin