sdowney717
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- Joined
- Jan 26, 2016
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- United States
- Vessel Name
- Old Glory
- Vessel Make
- 1970 Egg Harbor 37 extended salon model
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/10P...489.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.12e44c4dsdQI3E
I bought these G4 ceramic sockets with wires. I like the long ceramic holder on these as they can be more easily retrofitted to existing light fixtures and $3 for 10 pieces is cheap! An LED bulb wont get very hot so I am thinking to cut out the existing socket and glue in with epoxy these ceramic sockets on two wall light fixtures that differ from my overhead DC lights where I will use the adapters.
I also bought earlier the ba15d to g4 adapters.
But I cant do all my lights using the adapters as some use a single contact base, (ba15s) (bay15s), so these ceramic g4 sockets I can use. I could have used these on the overhead lights removing the existing bulb socket and the new socket could be wire tied to the lamp fixture.
It seems the G4 led bulbs offer the best prices, as they have no attached bases for the manufacturer to fit existing sockets and they charge more for those type bulbs. For example here, for 6 watt and they are dimmable using the pwm controller
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/201...814.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.72154c4dNYwkW8
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Bla...842.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.12e44c4dsdQI3E
I have 9 DC light fixtures and they are all going to be LED. The dimmer was an interesting idea to try. I was thinking to dim all the DC cabin lights together off the one dimmer, but leave the exterior deck light undimmed. Might not be easy to leave the aft deck overhead light undimmed, they may have daisy chained that light from the rear interior overhead light. I am so not into rewiring by tearing out the headliner for one light. They did seem to setup 3 light circuits, so may selectively dim some and not others.
I bought these G4 ceramic sockets with wires. I like the long ceramic holder on these as they can be more easily retrofitted to existing light fixtures and $3 for 10 pieces is cheap! An LED bulb wont get very hot so I am thinking to cut out the existing socket and glue in with epoxy these ceramic sockets on two wall light fixtures that differ from my overhead DC lights where I will use the adapters.
I also bought earlier the ba15d to g4 adapters.
But I cant do all my lights using the adapters as some use a single contact base, (ba15s) (bay15s), so these ceramic g4 sockets I can use. I could have used these on the overhead lights removing the existing bulb socket and the new socket could be wire tied to the lamp fixture.
It seems the G4 led bulbs offer the best prices, as they have no attached bases for the manufacturer to fit existing sockets and they charge more for those type bulbs. For example here, for 6 watt and they are dimmable using the pwm controller
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/201...814.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.72154c4dNYwkW8
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Bla...842.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.12e44c4dsdQI3E
I have 9 DC light fixtures and they are all going to be LED. The dimmer was an interesting idea to try. I was thinking to dim all the DC cabin lights together off the one dimmer, but leave the exterior deck light undimmed. Might not be easy to leave the aft deck overhead light undimmed, they may have daisy chained that light from the rear interior overhead light. I am so not into rewiring by tearing out the headliner for one light. They did seem to setup 3 light circuits, so may selectively dim some and not others.
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