Hello,

This has me baffled. My old Santa Cruz has all kinds of original fully functional cabin lights - each the standard 1156, 12 volt bulbs and switches that work perfectly. However, when out on the water (like Voyagers Nat'l Park on the border with Canada last week), I am always paranoid about waking up to dead batteries if using the interior lighting in the evening. (One can not paddle 7 thousand pounds of boat 25 miles back to the landing...)

So, despite the ridiculous price of $15 per bulb for LED's, I was enthused to replace the old incandescent bulbs with all LED's (in the 38 year-old fixtures, that take the same bulb base configuration), to benefit from about a 10-fold decrease on battery demand. But, surprise! The lower amp draw LED blew the fuse in the first bulb I installed. And then again, and again. So I assumed I had a bad bulb and bought more, and tried it first in a different fixture. Same thing, immediate blown fuse - not even a twinkle of light, just blew a 10 amp, then a 15, then a 20 amp fuse.

What is going on? This makes no sense.

Thank you in advance for any ideas.

~ Mark