Navigation Lights

[saltyboats]

I am restoring a 2001, 28TE and the bow nav lights are the originals and the lenses seem to be UV destroyed and the bulbs burned out. I took these bow lights off and had to do some surgery to the electrical contacts to get power to the contacts. After all this work, I can not seem to find replacement bulbs for these antiques.

So which brand and model number should I look for to replace these lights so I can have bright LED's and a white plastic housing that will somewhat match the original design?

[Nancy]

A few people have used Hella Marine NaviLED Pro - https://www.defender.com/product3.jsp?p ... &id=586088. They sure are pretty.

I'm surprised you can't find bulbs for the existing fixtures, but if the lenses are shot, that may drive your decision.

[saltyboats]

Thanks. The bulb cost and availability seem to be an issue or maybe I am not just looking in the right places. But if the bulb replacement cost is half the cost of a new LED light fixture, I think this is a no brainer to replace the entire light especially with a UV damaged lens.

[Nancy]

Yikes - hard to imagine the replacement bulbs are $50! But if the lenses are bad, new fixtures will be really nice to have.

[DougSea]

You probably have Aqua Signal Series 41's (they also come in white) https://www.defender.com/product3.jsp?p ... 1&id=65014

Lamps for these are $22 for incandescent and $40ish for LEDs.

Defender also sells the replacement lenses.

[catalina_mike]

I did new assemblies.

[Tree]

I paid around £8 ($10) for my bulbs!


https://www.furneauxriddall.com/cgi-bin ... ml#SID=928

[Tree]

Also replace red with red LED, Green with Green LED. White LED will always be white through a green lens and red will be pink. Green light has a longer wave length being something to do with the reason!!