One of the things I wanted to do was replace all the interior lights with LED as they will use a LOT less electricity, very important when I'm staying at anchor in some remote area- will make the batteries last a lot longer.
Did a lot of on-line searching, reading other sailors blogs – becoming over whelmed with all the amps/volts, imps etc! A lot of the LED replacement bulbs are very very expensive! Somewhere I read about someone using these LED lights from IKEA…

They run directly off of 12volt and come with a 110 transformer. Well since the boat is 12 volt, I didn’t need that- so I did a test wire up and they work great! Made 2 fixtures out of teak, one with 2 lights for the galley area and one with 3 for the main saloon.


So far they work great, I don’t have my hourly amp meter attached so I can’t say how much current they use, winter project. Feels good to get a little project dome.