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Led fetish support group

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#1 · (Edited)
I am a 57 year old sailor and have found that my fetish for LED lighting devices is getting out of hand

It started slowly with a simple torch. I was pleased with the hours I got from every battery set - I would turn it on and off just for the pleasure and I would feel the bulb and marvel at how cool it was running.

I now sit below with several devices casting a ghostly unpleasant light across my tiny saloon which at one time was lit by the lovely glow of incandescent energy sapping bulbs or even by candles



I once had a wonderful LED torch that ran on six AA batteries for 1000 years - it produced a lovely bright and powerful but ghostly white light.I made a special wooden holder for it by the cabin door

Sadly on one terribIe evening put it down on a pontoon and watched it roll into the water shining brightly as it went down.

Just to write about the incident brings back disturbing flashbacks.

recently I came across an LED torch that costs £213

Ledco LED8421 LED Torch in Gift Box - Black: Amazon.co.uk: Lighting@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411-fGscYKL.@@AMEPARAM@@411-fGscYKL

I want it.

Do you look at torch porn on amazon and ebay?

Do you touch LED lights to see how cool then run?

do you talk to other sailors about LEDs when clearly they do not share your passion?

I would love to hear from any other sailors who are similarly afflicted and am very eager to be put in touch with a person who can offer me some form of aversion therapy.

Yours

LED fetishist of Botolph Claydon
 
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#3 ·
Dylan,

I fear that your fetish is no longer uncommon but is instead spreading. Earlier this week I saw a program on the television -- the Travel Channel, to be precise -- about a couple who was shopping for a motorhome in preparation for caravanning. They refused even to consider one particular model unless all the interior halogen lights were replaced with their LED equivalents. More disturbingly, the dealer pandered to their addiction and offered to replace them -- free of charge! I wonder if anyone is forming support groups? Perhaps there is there a 12-step program (that doesn't involve replacing your LED lights). Surely help is available to those who ask for it.
 
#4 ·
Bravo, Dylan!

Admitting that you have a problem is the first step towards recovery!

~ $400 for a flashlight? Are you nuts? If you think you were inconsolable after your first one went over the side, just think how you'll be when (not if) this one takes a swim.
 
#5 ·
There is a LED addiction screening test.
1. Have you ever considered cutting back on the number of LED lights you use?
2. Have peopled annoyed you by criticizing your use of LED lights?
3. Have you ever felt bad or guilty over the number of LED lights you have?
4. Have you ever turned an LED light on, even when you didn’t need one? For example; first thing in the morning even when the sun is up.
 
#7 ·
Profin

you started so warm and cuddly and compassionate and then you just called me a loonie

odd therapy

as for the five point plan from Dr Mayton

There is a LED addiction screening test.
1. Have you ever considered cutting back on the number of LED lights you use?

never _ have several places where leds could still be replaced

2. Have peopled annoyed you by criticizing your use of LED lights?

no.. everyone has been most sympathetic - some have even expressed their own LED related bproclivities

3. Have you ever felt bad or guilty over the number of LED lights you have

yes ... for sure... so far this has cost me the equivalent of 20 wine boxes from Lidl

4. Have you ever turned an LED light on, even when you didn’t need one? For example; first thing in the morning even when the sun is up.

of course - hasn't everyone?
 
#9 ·
Although I have absolutely NO IDEA as to what the afflicted gentleman from Oxford is discussing, I note that my access to the Coast website for general use, professional use and tactical use LED flashlights has been denied due to my Trouble and Strife (= wife) apparently putting a blocker on my computer.

I suspect that this may have resulted from me giving them as gifts to her and the young adults for Christmas (I certainly had all that I needed...)
 
#12 ·
Porfin, don't feel bad. Plenty of folk started off warm and cuddly with DW and now think him a loony. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Being a loony that is. Me, I always figured he was borderline barking.

Would a sane man really set out to circumnavigate the UK in the Slugette ? Surely not. Ergo having whackjobs like DW out and about is overall, for the good.

Well thats my justification for liking the old nutter.

Now, DW .... we also have quite the collection of LED lights but I'm still not ready to go the whole hog. For interior lighting applications (remember that is my job) we now have LED halogen replacements that are damn near indistinguishable from halogen when you turn them on. I've not yet found LED for the boat interior that excite me.
 
#14 ·
Porfin, don't feel bad. Plenty of folk started off warm and cuddly with DW and now think him a loony. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Being a loony that is. Me, I always figured he was borderline barking.

Would a sane man really set out to circumnavigate the UK in the Slugette ? Surely not. Ergo having whackjobs like DW out and about is overall, for the good.

Well thats my justification for liking the old nutter.

Now, DW .... we also have quite the collection of LED lights but I'm still not ready to go the whole hog. For interior lighting applications (remember that is my job) we now have LED halogen replacements that are damn near indistinguishable from halogen when you turn them on. I've not yet found LED for the boat interior that excite me.
aha

but I have just bought a slug replacement

paid for it yesterday

Dylan
 
#18 ·
So sad to hear another fine sailor has been LED astray.
My addiction was halted while trying to figure out a thru hull arrangement for the RGB microprocessor controlled underwater array. On the bright side even that would have been less expensive that the amazon torch.
 
#20 · (Edited)
Wow,
A new (to you) boat. And here just a few minutes ago I was watching one of your videos thinking "now here is a guy, in a crappy little boat out sailing in crappy English weather having the time of his life with untold hours underway and onboard, suffering abominable tides and questionable anchorages, eating food from a can and making videos of it all." I couldn't help but think what a role model you are for those of us who only go out when the weather is just so, the phase of the moon just right and there is no footbal on the tv. And then you go a sell out and what; leave your poor slug on some god forsaken hardpack to pine and waste away?
For Shame!
But congratulations anyway,
John
 
#21 ·
sticking with the slug for a few months yet

the slug still has a summer of sailing ahead of it

going to go up the humber - a roughish sort of place

the Minstrel needs some work on it

I am only dumping the slug because of the engine - it still runs but is stuck in forwards - I can live with that but it has cost me so much money and time over the past five years

the new boat has an outboard well and ebay is full of great second hand outboards that can be slotted into place in seconds

people were complaining about too many films about fixing engines

and I had some of the most miserable moments of my short life staring down that hatch wondering how I am going to fix the sucker

one of the mags over here has also decided that the Minstrel will be a great boat to use for tests compaing 5 hp saildrive outboards and as it has both a bermudan and gunter rig that would also make a great item

the fact that I can tow it to their base in Poole for the tests is also an advantage

I love the slug - it has been great

but the beast has been an absolute burden

inboards are for rich people

real sailors use outboards

discuss

I am also hoping that a prettier boat will look better on the dvd covers and it is those that pay for all those films you have been watching for freemans

and by the way - the films look better on a telly than they do in a tiny window on a laptop

Dylan
 
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