LED light strip under awning - wiring in back of fridge?

Thanks everyone for the suggestions!

Several people mentioned not wanting/ liking lights, etc. We are not people that leave our lights on all night long and we won't leave them on late if we aren't going to be outside. But Our current lights are the LED rope lights that we clip to the awning each time we use them. We are just wanting something more permanent.

I can't answer the question re wiring into fridge compartment.
But, I added LED lighting to our Winnebago Minnie, and after buying our MH, I've added LED lighting to it. I purchased strip lighting from recpro.com that has the stick on mounting track. For both the trailer and the MH, I tapped into the porch light. Since there was only about 8" between the light and the LED strip light, I simply used a small piece of stick on cable cover to protect the wires. On the trailer, it was white on white. On our MH, I've painted the cable cover to match the motorhome paint. Actually, I've installed one 6' strip of lighting, but will add another 6' strip when we get to FL in January and install the cable cover.

Use a secondary double stick tape. I just installed these lights in my boat and as mentioned, the adhesive on the light strip sucks.

When I installed a secondary exhaust fan in my frig I used the 12v connection on the back of the frig.

I ran to the back of the fridge as my awning arms and fridge panel are adjacent. I attached the light strip to the coach with high-temperature (400F) hot glue. The adhesive on the lightstrip was not very good, but I wanted something easy to remove should the strip fail, and silicone makes a mess.

Cocky_Camper wrote:
National RV did not put a porch light on a 04 sea breeze. I have no clue as to why not. That is why we want the light. The currently clip rope light to the awning. But that means we have to put the awning out to use them.

Is the awning electric? If so remove the plastic panel at the arm of the awning and trace the wires into the wall of the RV. Do not jump off that wire it is on a switch but you can run a new one in the same hole.

Be sure to check YouTube for installation ideas. I did, after posting the above, and it kind of whet my appetite for adding these lights. I generally don't like a bunch of extra light around my campsite, but if we come back to camp on a dark night, the little porch lite is kind of useless (it's yellow to discourage bugs), and some extra LED might be welcome. I would be sure to mount them so that they would illuminate the ground while the awning is closed, because we don't use the awning much, and we definitely don't use it while away from camp.

Since you don't have a porch light, I don't see any problem connecting to any 12v source in your fridge compartment. You can also get strip light kits that come with a 120v dongle, so you can connect to an AC outlet if that is more convenient, or plug it into an outside GFCI outlet if you have one of those. Some kits come with remote controls, to turn them on/off, and various light shows and color changes, if that's your thing.

It might also be easy enough to fish a wire across the ceiling to a ceiling light or fan fixture. Don't sweat drilling a small hole through the skin. Just put the hole right below the awning rail, keep it as small as possible, and fill with Dicor after it is all wired up. There isn't any reason to worry about leaks if you do it correctly.

National RV did not put a porch light on a 04 sea breeze. I have no clue as to why not. That is why we want the light. The currently clip rope light to the awning. But that means we have to put the awning out to use them.

I second the porch light. That's what I used. I removed the porch light and saw the wall behind it was hollow. I drilled a 3/8" hole 6" above the light and fed the LED strip wiring down through the 3/8" hole to the larger hole for the porch light and tapped the hot and ground so the LED strip comes on with the porch light. Then sealed the 3/8" hole with silicone caulk. I reinstalled the porch light with a new bead of silicone to seal it also.

This mod isn't of much interest to me, and I'm not likely to do it.

But if I was going to, my porch light is very conveniently located, and, already has a switch to control it. I would use that.