{"id":794,"date":"2023-10-11T22:58:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T22:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/?p=794"},"modified":"2023-10-11T22:58:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T22:58:29","slug":"engine-room-light-converted-to-led","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/11\/engine-room-light-converted-to-led\/","title":{"rendered":"Engine Room Light Converted to LED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was a classic explosion-proof light in the engine room. It was originally equipped with an incandescent lamp. As was done for the other lights in the boat, I wanted to convert the lamp to LED. My first effort was to use LED replacement lamps that have the usual Edison screw base, but I found the LED lights were unreliable and after a sail or two they would stop working. Looking for something more robust, I came upon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B07PGNVQML\/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B07PGNVQML\/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">these strings of LED lights<\/a> that could be cut to any length.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_1292.jpg?resize=525%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_1292.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_1292.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_1292.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I pulled the guts out of the old light. Then string of LEDs has an adhesive back, so mounting them was easy. I am very satisfied with the final result. The light is now much brighter than it was originally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_1289.jpg?resize=525%2C394&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_1289.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_1289.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_1289.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a classic explosion-proof light in the engine room. It was originally equipped with an incandescent lamp. As was done for the other lights in the boat, I wanted to convert the lamp to LED. My first effort was to use LED replacement lamps that have the usual Edison screw base, but I found &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/11\/engine-room-light-converted-to-led\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Engine Room Light Converted to LED&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-timeline-of-aegir-ran"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}