{"id":441,"date":"2007-03-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=441"},"modified":"2009-04-20T14:17:29","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T19:17:29","slug":"led-running-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/led-running-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"LED Running Lights Come of Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mosimage\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"LED running light from Aqua Signal\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/img_5245.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"LED running light from Aqua Signal\" hspace=\"6\" width=\"576\" \/><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been watching the development of LED anchor and running lights for some time. Most of them have had some shortcomings, and none were approved as running lights, until recently.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->That&#8217;s a 1-watt Aqua Signal anchor light in Linda&#8217;s hand. Notice that the LED at the top is inside of a prism. The prism concentrates the light.<\/p>\n<p>We mounted a pair of these on <em>Wind Horse<\/em>, one at the bow and the other on top of our &#8220;mast&#8221;. For a single watt, not even measurable on most amp meters, they put out an amazing amount of light, equally as bright as our old 10-watt bulbs.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the miserly power consumption, there are some other advantages with LEDs. They last for thousands of hours, and are not subject to breaking in rough sea states.<\/p>\n<p>Aqua Signal and several other manufacturers now offer approved LED running lights. So even those cruising with minimal power capacity can be well lit at night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been watching the development of LED anchor and running lights for some time. Most of them have had some <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/led-running-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":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441"}],"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=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}