>They beauty of these lights is that you can set them up on the boat during >daylight hours and not worry about lighting as it gets dark. The single >white LED is quite bright and it's easy to gang 2 or 3 together. Each one >draws around 20-30 ma as opposed to 500 ma for an incandescent bulb. They >will retain brightness at lower voltages then an incandescent bulb and bulb >life is 50,000 hours! The white LEDs are uncomfortable to look at, even in >daylight. I'll have to try the white LEDs. Were you the one using 3909s? What sort of duty cycle? You remind me that I was at a cemetery near Doylestown, PA recently and I saw some solar powered Eternal Lights by some tombstones. about 16-20 square inches of panel evidently storing into a battery thence to a superbrite red LED in a translucent plastic block. Shade the panel (i.e. the sun went down) and the LED lit up. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Mar 08 1999 - 11:40:10 PST
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