Bulbs that just look like our bulbs are NOT our bulbs.

Our Marinebeam bulbs are more expensive than the other so-called "marine" bulbs that you find on the internet because we use one of the most sophisticated, and efficient, constant-current circuit topology available. Our LEDs are the best and brightest available and are bin-selected for constant color and output.

We have seen an explosion of products coming out of China that are absolutely spitting images of the Marinebeam products. Virtually all of these products are using orphan LEDs, simple resistor-controlled circuits, fiberglass substrates, and are not polarity conscious (see image at right from one of our major "marine" competitors).

Our products use premium bin-select LEDs from Citizen, Epistar, Nichia and SSC. Our substrates aren't inexpensive polyester printed circuit boards, but are engineered thermal substrates laminated from Alumi-core webs for high thermal efficiency. Our heat transfer compounds are the best available two-part silicones from ACC and Dow Corning, not cheap Chinese thermal grease. We've selected the components for our chipset that have lower EMI emissions, and higher voltage spike thresholds. We could have chosen the cheaper type, but our products are meant to be used on your yacht. Our capacitor and inductors are also oversized to protect the components.

If you don't understand the differences between the products, or want specific details about why ours are more expensive, please download our Idiots Guide to Marine LEDs. As usual you get what you pay for. We wouldn't add these sophisticated circuits if we didn't think it was necessary and an added value to our products. Don't risk burning your yacht to the waterline for lack of a little education about LEDs.

We'll put our bulbs up against any competitive product (even the $40 ones), and we'll guarantee that ours are more efficient (efficacious), have longer life, and are brighter watt for watt.

We see now that a few of our competitors are claiming lumen ouputs and efficacies that are just impossible, given the state of the technology today. One is claiming a 60W equivalency from a 3W bulb. If it were true, that would be an efficacy of 220 Lumens per watt, and they should march right down to the Dept of Energy and claim the $10 million DOE L-Prize!

Caveat Emptor.