260 Mod: LED lighting
One of the biggest power draws on most boats is it's lighting. Incandescent lights are one of the most inefficient uses of electricity known, closely followed by its cousin, resistive heating. All of this changed in the last 5 years with the introduction of LED lighting. These solid state devices are more than 10x as energy efficient as older filament bulbs, and last much longer, perhaps for the life of the boat. Sadly the First 260 was designed and spec'ed before the introduction of LED lighting, so the boats did not come equipped with them from the factory. Thankfully, there are ways to retrofit this technology into the First 260. All of the internal fixtures on the boat contain G4 halogen bulbs. While small and quite bright, these bulb run very hot, and burn out quickly. The fixtures are shaped to take these bulbs and these bulbs only. Changing the fixtures would be a mess affair. Lets try and avoid that. Fortunately we are not alone in this thinking. Several out