Friday, October 28, 2011

Stateroom lights, v4.0. Sigh...

I'm building a pair of stateroom lights from scratch to replace the ones that used to be there and that were so hot that they melted their housing and burned the upholstery behind them. Because of said upholstery issue, the dimensions I have to cover are very specific. And I want LED, and I want a switch. You'd be amazed how hard this very simple list of requirements is to satisfy! Here's my 4th version, still messed up. And since I went through the trouble of fully installing them before figuring out how messed up they were, I now have the additional problem that the wiring will be too short when I cut it to remove these and rework them. Le sigh!

Hopefully v.4.1 will fix this.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Awesome vintage photo

Posted by Jonas Wiren in the IF Sailors group on Facebook.
IFBoat interior (from '70s brochure, I presume).