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Got a Light?
from WorkBoat June 2022
by WorkBoat
LED technology continues to move in the right direction.
Phoenix’s SturdiSignal lights are designed to withstand moisture and corrosion conditions.
ABS
The MITAGS wheelhouse simulator in Baltimore.
By Jerry Fraser, Correspondent
Airplanes proved their worth in World War I, but ocean crossings were still novel in May 1919, when the Navy’s newest flying boats set out to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
The leg to the Azores was more than 1,200 miles. To guide the airplanes at night the Navy deployed a string of destroyers that strung themselves out in a lighted picket line.
Aboard one, the USS O’Brien, was a young lieutenant commander named Philip Van Horn Weems. Weems, an orphan from Tennessee, had been admitted to the U.S. Naval Academy despite having an eighth grade education.
Perhaps he made it to Annapolis because he was smart enough to realize there had to be a better way to navigate.
Just over a century later, the company that bears his name, Weems & Plath, Annapolis, Md., manufactures navigational instruments that Lt. Cmdr. Weems went on to design, and in 2019 the company — as if to cover all the bases – began manufacturing and distributing OGM lights.
Although OGM – then known as Orca Green Marine – produced the first Coast Guard-certified LED navigation lights in 2004, Weems & Plath has engineered OGM’s nextgen Q Series of LED navigation lights, with a complete line for vessels up to 20 meters and a growing line for vessels up to 50 meters.
First responders are among the Q Series’ target markets.
The Q Series builds on the OGM’s earlier LX series with
Weems & Plath
In 2019 Weems & Plath began manufacturing and distributing OGM (Orca Green Marine) lights.
lights that are modular, serviceable and upgradeable, allowing vessel operators to take advantage of advancements in LED technology.
“More powerful lights, smaller footprints and smaller packages is what everyone is shooting for,” said Drew Fleming, vice president of sales at Weems & Plath.
The Q Series lights are made in the U.S. and are Coast Guard approved. They feature quick-disconnect waterproof PVC wire and have waterproof O-ring seals. The lights have a solid aluminum housing and are designed around what the company calls better thermal management. Although LEDs are thought of as being relatively cool, Fleming said, “It’s important to be aware of what impact heat can have. We do everything we can to get heat to exit the housing.”
PHOENIX LIGHTING
If heat plagues shipboard LED light systems, condensation can also raise the devil. “Navigation lights experience constant condensation issues caused by moisture intrusion,” said Ryan Hertel, vice president of business development at Phoenix Lighting, Milwaukee. Condensation issues often causes premature failure. “And when navigation lights fail, vessels no longer maintain compliance with COLREGS and Coast Guard regulations.”
Ultimately, Hertel said, the issue is safety. “What you don’t or can’t see can hurt you.”
Phoenix’s SturdiSignal lights are designed to withstand moisture and corrosion conditions, but if something goes awry, SturdiSignals offer a Plan B. Phoenix has launched a self-monitoring series of navigation lights to keep vessels in compliance and, more important, safely illuminated.
If brightness falls below the level prescribed by regulations, SturdiSignal intelligent LED navigation lights will send an alarm to a panel in view of the vessel operator. At the same time, SturdiSignal xtures have a double-head, autonomous option that automatically alternates LED heads to double the lifespan on a light and switches to an alternate head if one fails or falls below required illumination levels.
A control panel is available in combination with the navigation lights for both new construction and retro ts. If an existing control panel requires modi cation, Phoenix said it can make that happen.
Lights designed to be modular and easier to replace offer bene ts to operators in the form of long-term cost savings and ease of maintenance, Hertel said. As a result, operators that install Phoenix’s navigation lights are unlikely to need to hire a specialist in the event a light needs repair. Maintenance work can be carried out by a crewmember with a spare LED module kept onboard.
“For any newbuild or re t, it’s important to understand the bene ts of new shipboard lighting technologies,” Hertel said. “You can get better lighting – and therefore a safer and more productive working environment – for a lower lifecycle cost.”
Phoenix’s SturdiSignal navigation lights are designed and manufactured in the U.S. and are IP68 certi ed, with
Phoenix Lighting
Phoenix lights are designed to be easy to replace, the company said.
Phoenix Lighting
If brightness levels fall below a certain level, Phoenix Lighting's SturdiSignal intelligent LED navigation lights will send an alarm to a panel in view of the operator.
ABS approval and UL1102 MSC 253 (83) 4.3 compliance. They are available for commercial vessels greater than 20 meters long (65') as well as Navy, Coast Guard and Military Sealift Command vessels.
IMTRA
Imtra has introduced a low-pro le, 1,000-lumen (75-watt) surface-mounted LED utility light. The SWIM 350 is designed to be installed in an engine room or under a counter, but its sleek appearance would not be discordant in a galley or elsewhere on a workboat.
“It has a nice, nished look,” said Nate Cabral, who handles Imtra’s commercial sales in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. “It could almost be used anywhere.”
Cabral articulated a trend that Imtra and others in the world of maritime lighting are seizing on. “Halogen is phasing out,” he said.
Which is not to say there haven’t been growing pains for LED. For example, in its early days, LED illumination was considered harsh, Cabral said, and as a result was not received well in the market. Over time, however, LEDs, which are much more energy ef cient and last far longer than halogen or incandescent bulbs, have exerted their attributes. As an example of that ef ciency, Cabral points out that the LED equivalent to a 50-watt halogen bulb is six watts.
And unlike incandescent and halogen lights, he said, LEDs use electronic drivers, rather than heat, to create light. “LED deck lights love cold weather,” he said.
The SWIM-350 is 13.94"×4.21", consumes 10 watts of electricity and will run on 10- to 32-volt DC systems. Its low pro le facilitates wire entry from the side or the back.
Although modern working vessels have gensets providing alternating current in the wheelhouse, galley and accommodations, DC power is still useful – particularly when it comes to lighting.
“If you lose power, your battery will run your lights,” Cabral said. “Think about working in the engine room.”
Still, AC circuits aren’t going away. “The mindset is, ‘We always had a big generator,’” he said.
MCDERMOTT LIGHT & SIGNAL
If vessel operators see LED as emerging technology, McDermott Light & Signal, Ridgewood, N.Y., sees it as a platform for innovation.
For example, most operators regard the low draw of LED lighting as an asset. But one of the problems early adopters of LEDs confronted was that low current demand of LEDs escaped the notice of supervisory control panels designed for incandescent bulbs.
“It wouldn’t pull the relay in,” said Vernon McDermott Jr., the company’s
Imtra has introduced a low-profi le, 1,000-lumen (75-watt) surface-mounted LED utility light designed to be installed in an engine room or under a counter.
McDermott Light & Signal
McDermott Light & Signal said that if vessel operators see LED as emerging technology, they see it as a platform for innovation.
vice president. So, McDermott Light developed its RP feature, a relay panel that enabled tugboat operators to retro t their vessels to LEDs without the cost of changing their existing panels.
Conversely, the company learned that LEDs could drain power even if burned out, escaping the notice of the alarm panel. “We patented a device that would make sure that the alarm panel would know if an LED was not actually working, then the alarm would sound,” said company President Vernon McDermott Sr.
By the same token, he observed, what’s old is new again. The company manufactures an LED version of the battle hand lanterns – portable lamps typically mounted on bulkheads for emergency use – it once manufactured for the Navy.
The company has also retro tted a standard, 500-watt halogen light housing with LED drivers that “light up the same deck using only 50 watts, or with the right lenses installed in the same size housing, light up a shoreline from 200 feet away,” McDermott Sr. said.
In other cases, energy savings gure prominently into calculations – making solar power cost-effective. “We used to use 50-watt solar panels for barge navigation lights, now we use a ve-watt panel,” he said. “Technology is still moving in the right direction.”
The company’s marine line of LED lighting includes navigation, ood, and engine room warning lights as well as barge lighting.
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