LED bulbs
If your carmper/rv uses old style 12 volt car bulbs check out Amazon.com, they have 10 pack of led bulbs for under 20 bucks. Whiter light, cooler, less power. Best cheap upgrade to my rv ever. Better ...
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I upgraded mine with panels that are 24 LED's on each panel, and they are 5050 emitters. (5.0MM square). They cost me $1.20 each when I bought 50. I removed the wires to the factory twist in bulb holder, and wired in the panels. They are a lot more blue than I like but save a lot of energy. I am sure that they now sell a warmer (more red than blue tint to the light) LED now.
I have 4 of the panels in my porch light and it consumes a total of 0.6 amps at 12 volts, and provides about 4X the light of the old 1.1 amp incandescent bulb.
At one point, in 2013, I posted it would be less expensive to buy a 100 watt solar panel and install it, than to convert my energy hog incandescent lights to LED's at $10 per fixture. The price has come down to reasonable now!
I also used to recommend only changing the most used lights, instead of "All" of them. If you don't run it more than 5 minutes per trip, it is not worth changing it. This includes most basement lights, except perhaps the one near the sewer hookup.
Have fun camping!
Fred.
I have 4 of the panels in my porch light and it consumes a total of 0.6 amps at 12 volts, and provides about 4X the light of the old 1.1 amp incandescent bulb.
At one point, in 2013, I posted it would be less expensive to buy a 100 watt solar panel and install it, than to convert my energy hog incandescent lights to LED's at $10 per fixture. The price has come down to reasonable now!
I also used to recommend only changing the most used lights, instead of "All" of them. If you don't run it more than 5 minutes per trip, it is not worth changing it. This includes most basement lights, except perhaps the one near the sewer hookup.
Have fun camping!
Fred.
