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Back in the old days, the navigation lights on your boat were little incandescent bulbs housed within a small fixture with colored lenses. Simple and small as they were, somehow they always seemed to have a way of causing problems far out of proportion to their size. Oftentimes it seemed as though the mere act of putting a boat on the water in the dark would cause them to blow out. A few butik skyltar nighttime outings or a single season of use could lead to dead lights, corroded sockets, and fogged up lenses. Worse, most old style navigation lights were hardly what you could call user serviceable. Once a fixture corroded, there was little recourse besides replacing the whole thing if you wanted to get more than a few weeks of use out of it again.

These days, however, incandescent lights are becoming something of an antique notion to be remembered with a strange mixture of dread and nostalgia. The days of trying to remove rusted fixtures from mounts, clean corroded sockets and wiring, and clear up foggy colored lenses are rapidly receding into history as new navigation lighting technology comes to the fore. Gone are the days of putting your boat in the water only to have your lights fail at the first sign of an oncoming yacht or rainstorm. Of course, we are talking about the introduction of the LED into the marine navigation lighting niche'.

The light emitting diode, or "LED" butik skyltar for short, has largely obliterated the problems usually associated with navigation lighting. Powerful, efficient, compact, highly durable and extremely long lived; incandescent navigation lights never stood a chance once the LED was introduced. Where it was once pretty much standard practice to periodically inspect, clean and replace your lights several times during the boating season, LEDs have made it possible to go an entire season with little more than an occasional inspection to ensure everything is still operating as expected. In most cases, an LED lighting won't even need replacing for 5 years or more.

LEDs are nothing like an incandescent light bulb. They have no glass bulb, there is no filament, and there is very little heat produced. This is because LEDs butik skyltar produce light in a wholly different manner. Rather than heat a filament like an incandescent bulb to produce light, which is by the way extremely inefficient, LEDs produce light through a process called electroluminescence. Rather than go into a long and drawn out technical explanation, it's enough to simply say that electrical power is fed through a small piece of semi-conducting material which then emits light energy. This process is extremely efficient, produces little heat, and is basically solid stated in operation, meaning there are no parts to simply burn up or wear out in a short period of time. At the most basic level, an LED is a diode, just like you'd find in a radio or your computer. They're efficient, compact, and powerful light sources that can operate for several years without fail.

The small size, long life and cool operation of the LED lends itself very well to boat lighting. Since they can operate for several years, run cool, and are very small in size, LEDs can be fully sealed or potted within a housing, making them impervious to water and air and thus extremely resistant to corrosion. Additionally, the solid state design of an LED navigation light makes it extremely durable. An LED butik skyltar equipped navigation light can withstand abuse and conditions that would normally make short work of an incandescent navigation light. Vibrations, pounding waves, rain squalls, and even minor impacts with docks will be shrugged off by quality made LED lights. About the best that can be expected from an incandescent nav light under those conditions is an expectation of servicing and replacement on a regular basis.