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Re: LED lights
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2003 Oct 13, 13:42 -0400
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2003 Oct 13, 13:42 -0400
This one Joe?
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5mm White LED
$4.99 Brand: RadioShack
Catalog #: 276-320 Model: 276-320
Typical MCD is 1100. Size is T1 3/4 or 5mm. Clear lens color. 20mA (max).
Typical Voltage is 3.6V. Comes as package of 1.
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Because that part is rated for only 1.1 candle power dead on center, so it
might be highly distinctive and visible--but illegal for anything larger
than a rowboat. Even with the fresnel lens, you're still not meeting COLREGS
at any point for what a larger boat requires.
I just prefer to err on the side of caution, when the regs call for specific
perfomance criteria, I'm not interested in cheating or getting by on
regulated safety equipment, unless that's an option of last resort. Not that
I love rules, I took a scuba BC along for years before the USCG approved
inflateables, and bought my Crewfit once those came on the market. But still
carried the USCG one "somewhere down there" where the regs required it to
be.
But hey, as long as it works & you're comfortable with it. I doubt the local
Coasties will want to limb aloft in order to measure it for compliance.
(With *my* luck, they would.)
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