Phillips Livingcolors lighting for boat interior?

[jorghenderson]

I recently bought two of these LED lamps for home use and they seem very adaptable for use onboard.

The lights can vary in color, intensity of color and brightness. They give the possibility of adding some color to the often whitish interior finish and dimming to to "night vision" red.

Power supply is rated at 5v 2.6a but i think actual consumption is much less especially when dimmed. I will try to gather some data on real power usage.

http://www.lighting.philips.com/microsite/living_colors/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqx6pvT0zaA

http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/philips_livingcolors.jpg

[NEWENGLAND]

Interesting? Have they done any shake & Bake on them? Typical vibration of slamming through 6 to 10 ft chopps and temp fluctuations from neg 10 today, everthing covered with 6 inchs of ice to 140 degrees in the summer when the boats closed up sitting on the mooring should beat the crapt out of most filiment bulbs.

I really like L.E.D.s wish the price would come down on them

Capt Walt

[jorghenderson]

No sure if we have an interpretation problem here but these are LED lamps.

It actually are 4 differently colored leds which combined produce any color you like. The are controlled by some solid state electronics (g resistant by nature).

The connectors look pretty well engineered, probably no anti corrosive materials are used for the wiring and connectors but as they hardly produce any heat you can sicacrap the whole lot.

Never had 6 inches of ice in my boat interior.

[DanishBagger]

Perhaps a stupid question, but how large are they? It's quite difficult to tell from their website.

[jorghenderson]

The transparent spheres are about 18cm in diameter.

The led's and electronics would fit in a 5cm dia. cylinder 7cm long.

[DanishBagger]

Oh, that's much smaller than I thought. Pretty neat, methinks. With that size and a somewhat smaller diameter polycarbonate (or perhaps merely an acrylic) cylinder, one could enjoy the look of baffles in a boat as well. (well, if it's just a tad bigger than mine, one could even use them "as is").
Somehow I thought the diameter would be more like 40cms on those things.