Yesterday morning I also bought a new map reading light for at the chart table (as the old one has a short-circuit in it that I can't fix), and new LED lamp bulbs for the cabin light. I had two white lamps and one red, as the lamp has a switch to choose between red and white light.

So at sea, yesterday, I fitted all this. It was a failure! The white bulbs turned out to be green(!), and the reading light (also of LED type) is so enormously bright that it's unusable at night as it will blind you completely.

So annoying...

The good news, though, is that I had some strong words with my SPX-5 autopilot, after which the thing steered the boat quite satisfactorily all evening and night. Gives hope!

Bart

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