Just completed the marinization of a $20 Lowe's goose neck LED lamp to replace a badly corroded traditional brass (coated) gooseneck I had installed years ago.
Lowe's sells this lamp with a weighted base for normal desktop use. It comes with a transformer which I confirmed outputs 12 VDC. So I simply removed the base and on/off switch trashed the transformer and fabricated a new teak base which I hung from the forward main cabin bulkhead where the old gooseneck lamp used to be.
Works great for reading and general cabin light (high color temperature though so not perfect) and pulls a miserly 1/10 amp at 12 Volts.
I'm sure the electronics package is less robust than a real marinized version but I can do 5 of these for the price of one of those.
cheap LED flex neck lamp
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Freedom 30 (Mull) Hull #3
Build date...June, 1986 . Freedom Yachts USA, sloop, shoal keel
Gun Mount and pole retrofitted (purchased from a Hoyt Freedom 32)
Yanmar 2gm20F , 1600 hrs fixed two blade prop
e-rud and ocean racing equipment
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Re: cheap LED flex neck lamp
Good job!
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I think that the biggest problem that you'll have is that the power supply is designed to output 12V and your batteries are hopefully above that. This will cause the LED to be over driven and generate excessive heat, causing premature failure.
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Re: cheap LED flex neck lamp
pics please!!
does anyone have other options?
I hope to remove all lighting and go full LED for my F25 all the orig lamps are shot!
does anyone have other options?
I hope to remove all lighting and go full LED for my F25 all the orig lamps are shot!
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Did you read the reviews on the Amazon CFL?
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Not enough feedback to go on but I agree that I wouldn't buy these particular ones based on whats there. Only one guy complains of early failure. Also these are not the only ones on the web, there are some others out there.
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