[C320-list] Festoon Lighting

[Chris Burti]

The only festoon bulbs in the cabin of our 2001 #867 were the red and white ones in the two light fixtures in the v-berth. We were able to replace those and all  of the halogen bulbs throughout inexpensively with LED’s I found on eBay…two years now, good light and no issues.

Thanks,
Chris Burti
Farmville, NC

From: Mark Cole
Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 7:10 PM
To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Festoon Lighting

I replaced the cabin festoon bulbs on Fiddler’s Green with the Lunasea 6 LED bulb LLB-186W-21-00 and they work fine.  Got them at Fisheries and with a BoatUS account, they cost $9.89 last fall.

Mark
Fiddler’s Green, #8
Tacoma, Washington

> On Sep 5, 2017, at 3:17 PM, Christian <ccaper at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Warren,
> I would assume I have the same fixtures as you, I am skeptical if the 9 LED
> model will fit, but the measurements on LunaSea's pdf show that is should.
> Trying to get confirmation on returns if they don't fit before I order, if
> they do, I'll report back.  And you are correct, I meant dielectric.
> Thanks for calling me out on that.
> 
> Christian Caperton
> 1994 C320 "Canuck" #138
> Monroe Harbor, Chicago, IL
> 
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Warren Updike <wupdike at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> We replaced our cabin festoon bulbs with LEDs from marinebeam.com 7 years
>> ago. They were all 42mm. We put cool white (90 lumens) in the 2 aft corners
>> for reading positions, and warm white (72 lumens) in the rest. We replaced
>> the fixtures in the aft cabin with new LED fixtures. We have been very
>> happy with this. Together with the LED anchor light current consumption is
>> drastically reduced. 7 years is a long time and I'm sure there is lots more
>> competition today, and even technology improvements like higher lumen
>> output. I was sold at the time after reading MarineBeam's Technical page
>> and especially the piece on constant-current issue at
>> store.marinebeam.com/constant-current-1. MarineBeam is a supplier of LED
>> bulbs to Sailorssolutions.com (note all 4 S's in the URL)
>> 
>> Christian, if you have the same cabin fixtures we do (you probably do,) I
>> don't think the 9-LED will fit them. The lumens on our bulbs were less than
>> those from lunasealighting; but, we are satisfied with the amount of light.
>> I don't think you'll be unhappy with the 107 lumen cool white LEDs.
>> 
>> As for using silicone grease, I'm thinking that is dielectric not
>> conductive. I use a conductive grease for such connections. Either way
>> works.
>> 
>> Warren and Pattie Updike
>> 1994 C320 "Warr de Mar" #62
>> Middle River, Chesapeake Bay
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christian [mailto:ccaper at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 1:35 PM
>> To: C320-List at catalina320.com
>> Subject: Re: [C320-list] Festoon Lighting
>> 
>> David,
>> I am looking to place an order this week for some LED lights of this type
>> made from a company called LunaSea lighting.
>> 
>> My current festoon bulbs measure 43mm.  The LunaSea LED bulbs are 42mm, I
>> think they should fit.
>> 
>> I am looking at these:
>> http://www.lunasealighting.com/products/detail/pointed-
>> festoon-9-led-light-bulb-42mm/led-replacement-bulbs
>> 
>> Link contains a spec sheet pdf, and by their measurements and mine, they
>> should fit.  The warm white rates at 145 lumens.  I am looking at putting
>> warm white in the port sides cabin lights, and the red in the two center
>> cabin lights.
>> 
>> Should this model be too wide, I'll be looking at this model, but it drops
>> the lumens of the warm white down to 97 lumens.
>> http://www.lunasealighting.com/products/detail/pointed-
>> festoon-6-led-light-bulb-42mm/led-replacement-bulbs
>> 
>> Both are marine rated, and claim to not introduce any RF interference.
>> Looking at some of my current incandescent, the bulb contacts are pretty
>> corroded, so I'll be putting some silicon grease on the new LEDs.
>> 
>> I'll most likely be ordering the LunaSea lights from
>> https://www.fisheriessupply.com/, just trying figure out my order.  Can
>> report back after I try them.
>> 
>> if anyone else has other suggestions of this bulb type before I place my
>> order, I'm all ears too.
>> 
>> Christian Caperton
>> 1994 C320 "Canuck" #138
>> Monroe Harbor, Chicago, IL
>> 
>>