Anyone interested in 83 Pace Arrow Tear down and Rebuild?

Here is an overview of all 8 hooked together, and you can see that the brightest ones are at the top, with the highest voltage, and they get progressively dimmer as the voltage drops.

Adding another strip to make it 7 in a row, with amperage at 1.88 and watts at 24.6.

Outgoing voltage is now at 8.02.







And the final one with 8 in a row, here we have 1.87 amps, 24.5 watts with an outgoing voltage of 7.93.

Moving to 5 strips and amps are 1.87, with watts at 24.5.

The outgoing voltage drops to 8.40








With 6 strips we are at 1.87 amps, with watts at 24.5.

Outgoing volts are 8.17.

Adding the 3rd strip inline, increases the amperage to 1.80 and watts to 23.5.

The outgoing voltage at the end of the 3rd string is now down to 9.35 volts.







Adding another string to make it 4 strips, and we now have 1.85 amps, with 24.2 watts, and outgoing voltage of 8.76.

After adding a second string in line, moving the meter to the end of the second string, you can see the voltage drops from 11.75 for one string, to 10.31 at the end of the second string.

The amperage used goes from 1.20 to 1.65. Watts changes from 15.7 to 21.6.

As usual, I could not leave well enough alone, so I pulled out one of my multimeters and started checking voltage.

The one on the left is incoming voltage, how many amps being used, as well as watts in the lower left corner.

The multimeter on the right, is the voltage at the outgoing end of the string of lights.

I wanted to check out a set of strip led's, to light up the counters for cooking and preparing food, etc.

Here's what I found on Amazon.

These have a string of 42 lights end to end, but they are a double set, so they have a total of 84 per strip.







Here is a larger picture, and every set of 3, (6 lights total), the strip can be cut. Included are a bunch of extra ends that can be soldered to the cut strip if needed.

Both ends come with a connection, so they can be plugged together if you want more than a single string in length.

PastorCharlie wrote:
I replaced all lights in my MH with LEDs. Each single fixture has 48 LEDs in a square pattern and glued to inside of fixture. The double fixtures have 96 LEDs. I paid $1.60 each for them. All are clear daylight and give great light.

No doubt about it - I also like led's with a daylight type light much better than the standard 1141's.

Thanks.

JoeH wrote:

fulltimin wrote:

JoeH wrote:
These are the latches they use in my Newmar... sturdy and pretty small. They are $1.46 from Newmar Part 124329

Thanks for the info, pic, and part num.

I would not have thought Newmar would have sold anything with such a low price tag. Wrong again. Lol.

Some things from them are very reasonable... for example, the caps for the roof vent pipes are $1.53, and that includes shipping ! I broke one and ordered 3 at that price. So I have a couple spares. I imagine the price on the latch includes shipping too as that is generally how they list their item's prices.

Thanks.

I replaced all lights in my MH with LEDs. Each single fixture has 48 LEDs in a square pattern and glued to inside of fixture. The double fixtures have 96 LEDs. I paid $1.60 each for them. All are clear daylight and give great light.