Did the LED replacement lights (round two update)

A word of warning here. LED's get a lot hooter then one would think. Stay away from cheap ones as they are a fire risk. We had some, 36 leds with only 4 current limiting resistors. The leds were encased in epoxey. After a few hours of use the resistors started over heating and smoking.

SMD's are better as they usually have a thin aluminum heat sink in the board.
If you go with the raised LED's look for a heat sink on one leg of each LED lead. We have one of this style that is 5 years old now. It was also $70 as a double with 72 LED's

For us two 24 SMD bright white give plenty of light for reading and less heat then the 5 year old one.

colliehauler wrote:
I changed out all the regular bulbs with 48 LED panels. I bought 7000k LED's and it was bright white. I took them all out and will order the warm white 4000k.

4000K is hardly "warm white". Incandescent bulbs are in the 2600K to 2800K range, a "warm white" LED equivalent should be no colder than ~ 3200K if you want to avoid that "daylight" look. I swapped all my 921 incandescent bulbs with these equivalent 921 LED bulbs, sourced here.



Each bulb has 24 5050 SMD chips rated at ~ 15 lumens apiece so they're nice and bright, relatively warm compared to the incandescent bulbs they replaced, and don't interfere with the radio. I've been using these for a year now and have had zero issues with any of them. JMO, but I sure wouldn't be using wafers that have to somehow be secured to the fixture as they'll eventually fall out of position, just as many who have used them have discovered.

Hopefully on Ebay for $2.48

Thanks for sharing.
Where did you get your LED's?