Search results

I found these "puck" style LED's on ebay for a reasonable price. They drew less than 100mA at full brightness. The nice thing about them is that they already had PWM and other circuitry to make them polarity independent, and constant brightness over the entire operating voltage range of the...

I installed a small chartlight at the co-pilot seat location. First, I bought a cheap USB LED light with a goose neck on Ebay from China for about $5. I also bought a stand-alone red LED element with the right parameters and a resistor at radio shack to set the brightness. Some info about...

Red/white lights with dimming schematic

Reference information for ON-OFF-ON switch

Single light dimming schematic

Red/white switch added along with two-level brightness switch

Red in use

New switch with dimming resistor added

Dim setting in use

Red festoon bulb added along with "puck"

LED "puck" glued to old housing, wires routed to existing switch

Bright setting, in head

LED "puck" glued to old housing, wires and new switch installed

Modified USB chart light

Red LED modification

Anti-rattle stowage

Hi Bob! The battery monitor is a BEP Marine BM-1 "Compact" model. It looks to be outdated a bit now. This industry changes like the weather. I bought it on Ebay a year or so ago for about $65 bucks. Wasn't interested in counting coulombs or anything, I was just interested in an...