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hi youtubers jeff cote here with  ask pys we've got a question from a  fellow boater  tim tim asks i have an older grand  bank's 52 europa  that has original lighting it throws off  a yellow  light and draws a fair amount of power i  would like to upgrade  but not where to start do i have to  remove all the wiring do i need new  fixtures or just bulbs  tim that's a it's an excellent question  because all of us as boaters especially  if we have an older boat are going to  have what are called either halogen  light bulbs or incandescent light bulbs  and those live bulbs if you bring your  hand close to them  is are generating a crazy amount of heat  and that heat is a loss of power  so as a boater one of the first things  that i always encourage  fellow motors to do especially when  they're talking to me about having not  enough power and doing solar or adding  batteries or  a wind turbine or a high output  alternator and all these different ways  of creating more power and storing it  one of the easiest things that every one  of us should be doing is  at least replacing replacing  the lights that are incandescent and or  halogen  on our boats especially the ones that we  use all the time the one in the salon  the one in the galley right start with  those and replace those with  led lights now the trick is a lot of  times  and there's so many different led uh  bulbs  or lights that are option are available  what i recommend boaters to do is to buy  a bunch  from different manufacturers and to try  them  so buy five buy six buy a dozen buy  three  try them out in invite everyone that has  a say on your boat  that comes boating with you might be  your partner  might be your friends and ask their  opinions hey do you like that light  is that a yellow enough light is it too  white too blue  is it too cold and basically try it in  the fixture and once you  like a certain light some of us like  yellow lights some are like us  more white lights blue lights have a  look try  it and then once you're going yes i love  it then pull the trigger  and then replace them all so the trick  when you're replacing  uh these incandes incandescent or  halogen bulbs is that  most of the cases we don't have to  replace the fixture  and certainly not the wiring we just in  in  actually end up replacing the led itself  so we'll actually take  it's called a g4 halogen bulb we'll  remove it and it's got two little prongs  and we're going to replace it with a g4  led version so the the replacement it  can be pretty straightforward  the trick is to do your research find  the light that you like  and then pull the trigger and replace  them all  thank you for watching this video if you  have any questions please ask it below  or use our contact form  on our website and don't forget to  subscribe  so that you can keep having these weekly  and we're producing almost four videos a  week now  and thanks again for watching