LED light upgrade in my Class C
I replaced 9 pancake lights and 1 single pancake light in my Cruise America 28R with LED versions from Thin-Lite. Sorry no pictures. Here is the link to the double pancake lights. Here is the link to ...
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DrewE wrote:
I'm curious why you consider the square head screws to be "crummy". Do you not have a proper square-tipped (Robertson) screwdriver or screwdriver bit? They would be horrid with a Phillips bit, I suppose, just as a Phillips is pretty horrid with a flat bit.
At least in my limited experience, they are far less likely to strip out or fail to work properly than Phillips or flat head screws. The very first tool I bought for my RV was a decent square-drive screwdriver, and it gets a lot of use.
I used an S1 bit in a manual ratcheting driver. I don't know where CA got the screws in 2004/2005 that are in my MH, but the heads on the screws are ever-so-slightly larger than the S1 bit that I have, and some were slightly rounded in the corners - like what you'd find from aggressive use of a screw gun. My S2 bit was too large. Instead of "crummy" I should have said "cheap" or "not well made". I had 9 lights to replace. That's 36 screws. 4 or 5 of them took ten times the effort to remove than all the others. Other than that the install was fine.
BTW, one will be amazed at what one can find laying on the inside of a pancake light when it is removed:
- the cutout from the hole saw
- wire nuts
- a 2 inch wood screw laying across the switch in the cabinet over the head of the rear bed. ???
- a purple-colored wooden bead from a necklace or wristband in the light over the kitchen sink. Seriously
