Interior Lightning
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Topic: Interior Lightning
Posted By: tobo
Subject: Interior Lightning
Date Posted: 02 February 2008 at 10:13
The lightning concept of the Hanse 470 is well balanced and the spotlights look very modern. The only week point is the galley and my "cook" always complained about that. Two more spots changed the situation dramatically. You can cook now on the bright side and I have no more excuses to leave it to the expert. (One mans blessing is another mans curse )
 ------------- Thomi |
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Posted By: Terry
Date Posted: 03 February 2008 at 14:40
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Tobo,I like the organiser in the side where did U get that Holder>?
thanks, Terry
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Posted By: Brad McMaster
Date Posted: 03 February 2008 at 23:46
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Top idea and where did you get the extra down lights from? The factory, dealer or another supplier? Also did you run them off the current lights? was it simply a matter of splitting the feed?
B ------------- GHOST - Hanse 470e - 058 http://www.sailblogs.com/member/ghost/ |
Posted By: tobo
Date Posted: 04 February 2008 at 09:30
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The organiser is from a Swiss furniture shop called "interio", a better version of the Ikea. The feeding is just split I suppose because I let it do by the eletrician. But it was very narrow, the lights touched the ceiling and neede two more screws to fix it. ------------- Thomi |
Posted By: tobo
Date Posted: 04 February 2008 at 09:32
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The lights are original from Hanse and my dealer respectively an electrician mounted them and I suppose he connected them with the other two.
------------- Thomi |
Posted By: Charlie
Date Posted: 04 February 2008 at 20:00
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does anyone know if the interior bulbs can replaced with an led alternative? I found them quite heavy on the juice!
C.
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Posted By: lukemi
Date Posted: 04 February 2008 at 21:21
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Tobo, I also like your wall organizer. Never seen one like this in the States. Looks like it was made for that wall. I'm going to look at my 370 this weekend and see if I have the same wall space as your 470. Thanks for the picture and idea. Mike |
Posted By: John Allison
Date Posted: 05 February 2008 at 13:11
We trialled a number of MR11 LEDS about a year back and found them too cold and too weak to replace all the halogen globes below.
Some had only 5 LEDS, others had 11. Both to my eye, only gave out 30% of the light given by a 10 watt halogen globe.
Maybe today there are warmer 'super' LEDS one could use. If so I'd also appreciate knowing whats available.
However, we did replace one interior lamp over the gally for the long trip - and that, plus swopping Aqua Signal regular globes in both anchor and tri-colour saved us lots of joiuce this past summer. Its something I'd recommend to any cruiser.
JOHN
JOHN ------------- No longer a Hanse owner - but loved the one we had! |
Charlie wrote:Posted By: Perchanse
Date Posted: 05 February 2008 at 20:11
| Hella Marine do Nav lights in Approved marine LED. I replaced just the bulbs of my Nav lights and the power consumption went from 6 amps down to 0.6 amps so I am going thru with replacing more. The Cold LED interior bulbs I agree are not good in the galley but you can get warm white which I now have on order. I have an aversion torunning the engine for 2-3 hours per day for battery recharge so am going right through the boat on a power reduction exercise. |
Posted By: sgilman000
Date Posted: 12 March 2008 at 14:31
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Did you replace the hold lighting fixture with a Hella Marine or just the bulbs? The lighting fixtures on the 470 seem too small to fit LEDs. Can you send a link? Thanks |
Posted By: John Allison
Date Posted: 13 March 2008 at 06:33
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Hi Sqilman000,
If you are talking about the below deck halogen lamps - then Hanse's are a standard size. The globe / lamp reference for size is MR11. The bigger size more commonly seen in domestic globes / lamps is MR16.
Cheers
JOHN ------------- No longer a Hanse owner - but loved the one we had! |
Posted By: sgilman000
Date Posted: 17 March 2008 at 13:13
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John, I understand it easy to find bulbs that fit in the socket. The question is will it fit in the light fixture. LED are much bigger than the halogen bulbs that come standard because they usually have clusters of LEDS and resistors, etc... Did you find something off the shelf that fits? Is there a reference? Thanks, Sean |
Posted By: John Allison
Date Posted: 17 March 2008 at 20:47
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Hello again, Sorry if I did not make myself clear. A bulb is a globe. The halogen globes conventionally used in house fittings (lamps) are referenced MR. The bigger size is MR16. The smaller size is MR11.
The fittings (lamps) used by Hanse are the smaller size, and MR11 globes fit them.
You can get both MR11 and MR16 sized globes made up of LEDS= we hve one such MR11 in the fitting over our galley.
But as yet - I've not seen any LED MR globe that gives as warm or as much light as even a 10 watt halogen globe - let alone the 20 watt globes they use as standard.
I am sure one day soon these will become available - but to my knowledge - they are not available today.
Cheers
JOHN ------------- No longer a Hanse owner - but loved the one we had! |
Posted By: copain
Date Posted: 17 March 2008 at 21:21
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Hi Guys,
You might find some interresting reading about LED's and so on on the following site.
http://www.niikuled.com/Products.htm - http://www.niikuled.com/Products.htm
Regards, Willem ------------- s/y Copain (Beneteau 281) from march 2008 Hanse 350 # 061 Visit my BLOG op http://www.wsv-haringvliet.nl/blog/maatje/ |