LED marker,tail & stop lights

I swapped out my tailights for led units. Purchased them at Harbor Freight for a good price. They work just fine and the brake lights/signals are much brighter. Only took a couple minutes to do each they plugged right in.

B.O.

I've done this to my travel trailer. The reason? The stock Bargman #92 series tail lights were crappy, dim, cheap things. I figure the most important lights on my rig are the tail/brake lights, so I upgraded to surface-mount Bargman #84 series LED tail lights. HUGE difference in brightness, and I no longer wonder if the car behind me sees my brake lights when we hit the interstate traffic jam.

I also changed the marker lights over to LED, but that was just a personal preference. I used the Peterson V180 series, but there are many manufacturers that make that same shape marker. One note- I went with markers that have built-in reflex since side reflectors are required on trailers to be DOT legal (or you can add seperate amber/red reflectors). Some may not care about that.

I just ordered a new tag bracket (the old one was a rusty mess) from etrailer and I got the one with the LED light. My trailer, though a 2007, came with all LED lights on the outside -- except for the tag bracket.
It is a "Piece of mind" decision. You will probably never change a light.

enjoy the road.

bigdon68

I would imagine most of us have changed over to LED lights to save on energy drain from the trailer batteries. Each of the incandescent 12VDC automotive type bulbs can draw a good solid ONE AMP of DC Current. Just changing over to LED inside lights was a hugh power savings effort for me. I know that was my number one priority.

The trailer lights you have referred to are powered by the truck 12VDc battery and will not give you any saving on energy drain associated with your trailer.

Having said this of course I have seen the STOP and SIGNAL lights changed over on some trailers and they appear to be alot more visible for approaching vehicles from the rear.

Most ALL of the truckers trailers now have LED stop and signal lights. Alot of the emergency flashing lights are also now LEDs as they are less prone to failure going OFF and ON as required.

Etrailer has nice selection of DOT Approved trailer safety lights.

There is another issue that some LED assemblies radiate alot of RFI signals especially the LED assemblies that have built-in regulator chips. However this being only activated when you are towing your trailer probably is not going to be an issue for you. You may however run into some of this with your already installed new LED fixtures inside your trailer. They may interfere with your HDTV signals especially when being received from the OTA BATWING antenna. ALot of folks have experienced this with the bedroom mounted HDTVs being closer to the high output bathroom lights I guess...

Probably a personal call on your part... I would put my money into more batteries first as my camping style includes camping off the power grids where everything powered up has to come from the batteries....

Just my thoughts
Roy Ken