Replacement Cabin AC Bulb Source

[jason78]

Does anyone have a source for the Cabin AC Replacement Light Bulbs? The Current bulb says "LEUCI" which appears to be the manufacturer. The bulb has a strange base. I have not been able to find a bulb to fit in the socket.

Thanks
Jason

 

[Dave66]

http://www.leuci.com/ Here is the web site for the company that makes the bulbs. I had the same problem locally, not available. Bulb is made in Italy. I found the bulb I needed on their web site. I did not order it because I found two spare bulbs on my boat. I forgot I bought them 7+ years ago as spares. They were available through searay then.
Hope this helps

 

[skolbe]

When I had my 260, had to buy it through the dealer. Looked a lot of places.

 

[jason78]

Thanks guys, I actually found them at the link below and had not yet had time to post it. They were not easy to find. http://www.sailorsams.com/mall/e1425.asp Update: As of 9/17/2012, this link is broken and no longer links to the bulbs I ordered.

 

[Presentation]

Shame on Sea Ray for doing this. They are better than this BS. This one really strikes a nerve with me do to how much time I wasted on this.

Of course now that I figured out a solution I’m happy to share it with you so you don’t spend so much time on this like I did.


This issue wasted so much of my time that if I ever met the Sea Ray engineer that specified using this European base light bulb in a USA boat I would punch the engineer square in the nose. Literally engineering just to try to make it hard for us customers, no benefit to anyone for them doing this.

Bring your burnt out light bulb to a local high end residential light fixture store. Tell them you are looking for a European to candelabra base adapter. European (E14) Base to Candelabra (E12) Base Reducer. The adapter is inexpensive, like two dollars or less.

After you install this adapter you can use standard short candelabra base bulbs available at most stores including walmart.