{"id":34,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:12:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:12:30","slug":"automatic-anchor-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/automatic-anchor-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic Anchor Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p>Hi Steve: I&#8217;m interested in rigging a timer to my anchor light so I don&#8217;t burn it during the day when I&#8217;m away from the boat. Are you aware of any 12V timers I could put in the line to the light or another way to skin this cat? Thank you, Tom <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p>Hi Tom: Several ways to go about this. One way is to go to Radio Shack, pick up a mini-solar cell and a normally closed solenoid. When the NC solenoid receives power from the solar panel during the day, it opens the circuit to the anchor light.<\/p>\n<p>A simpler way is to buy an LED with a plastic Fresnel lens from Davis Instruments. Or, West Marine sells something similar powered by a lantern battery. Both of these have the mini solar panels, so they turn off during the day. Regards &#8211; Steve <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Steve: I&#8217;m interested in rigging a timer to my anchor light so I don&#8217;t burn it during the day <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/automatic-anchor-lights\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anchoring-forum","category-tech-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36354,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/36354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}