Ship light, marine boat lighting is a necessary condition for ship navigation, operation and life of ship management staff.
Usually includes ensuring navigation safety and personnel safety lighting (such as navigation lights, signal lights, lifeboat area lighting), ship workplace lighting (such as bridge, engine room and deck loading and unloading lighting), and living area lighting.
Different from land lighting systems, ship lighting systems can be divided into main lighting, emergency lighting, temporary emergency lighting, marine navigation lights and signal lights according to different power supply methods.
Today, RM will take you to understand the functions and characteristics of marine lights and navigation lights.
Features of Ship Light
Navigation lights are an independent part of the ship’s lighting system and an important light signal to ensure safe navigation of ships at night. In any case, it must be bright to indicate the ship’s position, status, type, whether there is a tugboat, etc. ., so as to prevent misunderstandings by surrounding or passing ships and cause marine accidents.
Ship lights are composed of front mast lights, main mast lights, tail lights, left and right side lights and front and rear anchor lights, which are used for night navigation of ships and to indicate the status and corresponding position of ships.
The bridge is equipped with a special ship navigation light control box or control panel, which is powered by two circuits of the main switchboard and the emergency switchboard. There are usually two types of lighting options, AC Led and Solar Warning Lights.
The Role Of Marine Navigation Light
The general lights used for ship navigation include: tail lights, mast lights, side lights, anchor lights, various signal lights, search lights, and the colors are divided into red, white and green.
Mast light:
The lights placed above the mast of the ship or above the center line of the fore and aft show uninterrupted lights in a horizontal arc of 225 degrees, and the installation is to make the lights show within 22.5 degrees from the front of the ship to the beam on each side.
Side lights:
The red lights on the port side and the green lights on the starboard side, which are placed on the left and right sides of the highest deck of the ship, display uninterrupted lights in a horizontal arc of 112.5 degrees from the bow to the stern.
The device is to enable the lights to be displayed within 22.5 degrees from the front of the ship to the rear of the beam on each side.
Taillight:
A white light placed in the middle of the stern. To display uninterrupted lights in a horizontal arc of 135 degrees, so arranged that the lights are displayed within 67.5 degrees on each side from directly astern of the ship. The height of the mast light should be as level as possible with the side light, but not higher than the side light.
Bi-color lights:
112.5 degrees red light, 112.5 degrees green light, flash: 360 degrees white light, as a warning light.
When anchoring:
Only display anchor lights (a white 360-degree all-round light), three-color fishing boat lights: 112.5 degrees red + 112.5 degrees green + 135 degrees white
Ship out of control:
In addition to sidelights and taillights (closed when not moving in the water), two vertical all-round red lights should be displayed at the most visible places
In addition to the sidelights, taillights and mastlights, three vertical all-round red lights must be displayed where they are most visible.
Navigation lights ship light, according to international regulations, vary in number according to the size and length of the ship. For ships longer than 50 meters, 5 navigation lights should be installed, namely the front mast light, the rear mast light, the rear stern light, and the left and right side lights.
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