LED Bulbs ad nauseam

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Welcome, Anthony.  Good info on LEDs.  One of my headlamps has a red LED which I use occasionally.  I would consider putting one in the rear fixture - I removed one of the bulbs from it already and use it at night when we come in after the kids are asleep (or supposed to be) up front.

I love that night light! 

LED bulbs I used ( 1.7 watts)

K4FCP:

Thanks for your LED response and post.  Like you, I have been messing with LED's for a long time and know superbrightleds.com well.  I have also used DHgate.  We changed out all ours as well and it was easy.  We did the markers and the whole shebang.

The biggest motivator to change to LED's in a POD is to put your hand on that porch light with the incandescent in it.  You could fry an egg on that puppy!

Another use I have made for PODding with LED's is to take a Homer Bucket, an opaque one gallon plastic jug and an 18 foot string of LED's from Home Depot.  Put the string into the one gallon jug leaving the plug tail out.  You can use that in itself as a magnificent brighter white light anywhere inside or outside your POD.

But wait, there's more!  Then put the one gallon jug into An Orange Homer bucket from Home Depot and cut a hole in the top for the plug in it from the one gallon jug in it.  It makes a super nice porch light, kind of looks like a pumpkin color and lights up and RDome nicely.

Yet, there is even more.  Using a circuit for 2 led's I put a red led and a white LED into a piece of  1"PVC, made an angled cover to protect the bulbs, put a 9V battery into it, some drop down resistors and 2 switches, one red, one white.  Now you have an inside or outside flashlight that will last you forever.   The red one is great for nighttime potty visits so as not to bother anybody else aboard.  The white is very useful for looking into the dark spaces of cupboards...all in one unit.

If you don't want to build the circuit, just take any old flashlight, go to a Radio Shack, get a "Giant Red LED, crush the frame on a standard incandescent bulb, drill a hole in the soldered bottom of it and then solder the correct leads, one to the side, one through the hole you drilled and, incidentally, no drop-down resister required for this one.  However, it is only a RED LED.  It will last forever as a nightlight.

We used the 2 light LED flashlights on a sailboat going to Alaska 7 years ago and I made 3 of them for the other 2 on board.  They are still using them.

I noticed you are a HAM and I am as well.  I got to go to Alaska principally because I am a HAM and they wanted to call home when we were anchored at night.  We did.

Burt, N7OW