Best Interior LED replacement bulbs

Jeff, right - Ebay cobs and most others don't have a frosted glass. And it is not important as there is - usually - frosted cover on the trailer interior lights. Additional cover on the cob will only block more light. One thing I don't like in this bulb is 2W power. They don't report lumens in this particular one, but with 2W it is should be equivalent to 10 or 11W incandescent, not 18W like a regular incandescent.

landyacht318 wrote:

SCVJeff wrote:
25ghz ?
You sure ?

sorry, khz.

For a while I was really impressed.. :)

SCVJeff wrote:
25ghz ?
You sure ?

sorry, khz.

Make it easy and cheaper on yourself, I have these throughout my RV and love them. Notice the seller (2001_led), I have had nothing but good experience with his products. I have had problems with other seller's lights. If you need a different style light look through his store, he has lots. The warm white are about the same as incandescent but the white or bright white have a blue hue.
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Almot wrote:
Jeff, cob LEDs cost about the same as the boards for the same fixtures. From $1 to $3 a piece, on Ebay. I guess buying RV supplies in Quartzite and similar places where retirees congregate for winter, is like buying food and clothes in airport shops, prices out of range.

Where are they sold, because I have looked around and not seen them? Not with that dispersal lens.

25ghz ?
You sure ?

Jeff, cob LEDs cost about the same as the boards for the same fixtures. From $1 to $3 a piece, on Ebay. I guess buying RV supplies in Quartzite and similar places where retirees congregate for winter, is like buying food and clothes in airport shops, prices out of range.

I now have more T10 194/168/921 cob style bulbs than I have receptacles.

The reason I have so many is I wanted more light that was less blue. I like white white light, not blue white, and warm white LED's just do not do it for me, compared to warm white from a halogen anyway.

All my purchases were from Amazon, and I got to say the variability in the bulb color was disheartening. Some bulbs from the same batch were a different hue, and sometimes individual LEDs on the cob were different on one side than the other. Sometimes I'd find a bulb or 2 that were the right color and nearly bright enough, and then order a bulb from same maker/seller but which had 4 more 5050 SMD's, and they would arrive and be blue, and seemingly no brighter.

While I utilize some of these t10 bulbs in the t10 fixtures, my lighting solution was t20 cree based bulbs in a modified 99 cent store gooseneck lamp. They have a hood to shield my eyes from the intense light of the Cree bulb, and I can easily aim them were needed, or point them at the white ceiling for ambient light.

I was so impressed with the t20 cree bulbs, I ordered 2 more from the same seller, and they sent me bulbs which had a blue heatsink, which gives me the unwanted bluish tinge. They are considerably brighter as they are driven harder at .2 amps vs the earlier .12 amps. I did not return them in time

I have a 25ghz PWM dimmer to use on these, well it works on most any of the LED bulbs I do have. A 12ghz pwm dimmer made some of these Cree bulbs whine audibly.


I do have some MR11 warm white LED's, now unused. These would knock out some TV stations, even when they were coming in at 75%+ strength.
Most notably channels 7 and 11 and 13 (actual). Turn on the light and instantly those channels disappeared. These bulbs do not respond to the PWM dimmer. They stay at full brightness, then just shut off at somewhere around 9 volts.

My overwhelming hatred of advertisements means I do not listen to radio, but I suspect these bulbs would cause massive interference.

I have very few LED failures, even at high 14's charging voltages.

I think I paid $16.97 on EBAY for 10x 12v 48smd LED 3528 panels. From like hong kong or china, delivered. Yeah, about a dollar seventy a bulb. In warm white. They work awesome in my 21 foot travel trailer. YMMV, they are about 2.5 watts each.

If the OP googles those specs... EBAY 10x..blah blah blah, he should get some decent results

Anyone who was at Quartzsite this year and spent any time in the tent saw at least 3 vendors selling THESE for $7.50ea., and there were a TON of them sold. They look exactly like an incandescent lamp, a little brighter, and don't have the hard shadowing that most LED's do which is a big deal for me.

I haven't gone to the trouble of looking at them with a spectrum analyzer, but brought an AM/FM radio up next to it and it was actually quiet across both bands, so that's a pretty good sign.

At the show they had the bayonet and wedge lamps in both WW and cool, and they are both beautiful light. By far the best I've seen.