Life buoy SI (Self Igniting) Light Repair and Replacement

Good afternoon, so this is a self-igniting light of a lifebuoy So the third officer had done his weekly Checks and found that one of the SI lights has been broken Remember this SI light even though it is checked every week Monthly and quarterly there is an expiry date for the SI light The complete set has to be changed in around five years that depends on the manufacturer And I once you replace this and once we open the box. I will show you where to check it So let us check. What was the fault so he's going to open the SI light what we found out was the SI light bulb had broken and There was a little bit of water coming into the SI light So there was some problem with the o-ring So the company had provided us with new SI lights so we'll unbox it and Change the SI light So this is basically our new self-igniting light. So these are the characteristics. We'll show you the characteristics Then once we open the whole box the SI light comes with All the attachments excluding the battery you can see it is not having any Any batteries they are giving you the whole set excluding the battery and in the SI light They will give you the installment date You can see written there are the manufacturer check the bottom so that is the manufacturing date of the SI light and The period of validity of this SI light as a whole is five years So this is basically the time for battery replacement is one year and For validity of the whole SI light set is five years So once you install it after five years you have to replace the SI light set as a whole Now the working principle of an SI light is basically there is a mercury switch somewhere here that Activates as soon as you turn the SI light upside So we'll open the whole thing I'll show you what it what is inside one of the basic checks that we have to carry out every week is to see whether this is watertight this o-ring should not be damaged and the battery and So this is how an SI light will open up as you can see it's a long It's a long tube with the place for battery to go inside So we'll insert the battery remember SI light will not come with the battery you have to order the battery separately This is basically the four batteries the batteries should be D size and how to insert it is inside this you can see one is flat surface that will be the positive and Another will be having a spring I Believe you can see that so We will insert the batteries into the SI light remember batteries have to be changed every one year and So this is how you insert it the last battery you push it up Then you will get a space to put the Fourth battery and we will check the SI light. Okay, the SI light is working You can see once it is turned upside. It is working. So we will integrate the whole SI light and Put it on our life boy There is a mercury switch Between the bulb and the battery that activates this SI light once it turns upside Remember the SI light is provided With a piece of rope to tie to the back to the lifebuoy as well as the stand So we are having the old stand. So we will be using the old stand. So let us replace our lifebuoy SI light with a new one so the third mate is going to replace The old SI light with the new one. It will just try it out with the Stand so It is a perfect fit and he will tie it with the life life boy Remember the length of this has to be Sufficient so that it can float along with this is how the SI light has been installed Remember the SI light validity is for five years the whole set and the batteries should be checked Replaced everyone one year The weekly monthly and quarterly test as per your company PMS I hope you understood and got a good understanding of how an SI light works their expiry date Thank you