blinking deck light on off switch

[Sunharvester]

Does anyone know if this light blinking on the panel means the bulb is dead or a short somewhere?

I only want to go up there as few times as possible

[tiger79]

I've had a blinking light on the fridge switch.  I swapped a relay from an unused feed, and the blinking stopped.

[Krumelur]

Yes, blinking does mean the light doesn't work. Should be easy to check, non? 😀

I heard (cannot confirm myself) that using LEDs instead of halogen bulbs may also cause the panel to blink due to lower currents.

[paulemeier1]

I have changed my deck light to led. Works fine. No blinking led at the panel

[Petef]

I changed my steaming light for an LED one and that makes my panel light blink. But the light definitely works.

For those that have changed deck light, what kind of LED did you use? When I went to the chandlery with my halagen deck light bulb the guy there said that he couldn't provide an LED to replace it and even suggested that the halogen one was better for the deck light.

[Sunharvester]

If no to low current causes light to blink then its either bulb or connection. This started since when mast was stepped this spring.

[Yngmar]

If it's the same as car headlights, you need to add a resistor parallel to the light so the detection works again.

https://www.autobulbsdirect.co.uk/blog/led-bulb-canbus-error-codes-how-to-fix-with-video/

[Sunharvester]

Turns out there was some corrosion that led to a short in the fixture.

[JEN-et-ROSS]

I heard (cannot confirm myself) that using LEDs instead of halogen bulbs may also cause the panel to blink due to lower currents.

That is indeed correct, the very low power consumption registers as a fault....We just got used to it and check the lights externally..........Bill.

[Petef]

Quote ["That is indeed correct, the very low power consumption registers as a fault....We just got used to it and check the lights externally"]

I'm the same, the fix according to the interweb is to use a resistor across the led (a bit of a faff but you can buy led with one already built in) , but that effectively increases the power so that the "can bus" used by Bavaria can register it as a working bulb. Making it pointless to fit an LED (which is to save power on a boat).

Wonder if there's a way to adjust something on the panel circuit to accept a lower power?

Fortunately it's easy to check that all's working by going to the bow and looking up during the day and it'll be obvious at night.