by unfetteredalexandria » Sun May 15, 2016 6:07 pm
If your setup is same as mine, I have one of the Perko combination masthead and anchor lights (see attachment). I was able to replace the bulbs with 2x Dr. LED "Festoon Star." However, it was not installed with the DPDT switch called out in the attachment, so in fact I had no anchor light capability. When I last had the mast out, I reran a 3-conductor bundle and used a diode between 2 "ordinary" switch-breakers in the panel, as the other attachment shows. (I had also replaced the J24 fuse panel with a Blue Seas breaker panel, but you need not do this). The 8A breakers are way oversized for this, but they are there to protect the wire, not the bulbs.
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- Anchor+Steaming light with diode.
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PerkoMastheadLight.pdf
- Masthead light for round-mast F25
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1984 round-mast Freedom 25
Western Shore of the Chesapeake