Flourescent Tubes to LED Benefits
Almost all of our 12vdc lighting is Flourescent Tube lighting currently. We do boon dock a couple of weeks each year. We have a 440AH battery bank. Other than control over the level of illumi...
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Benefits of LED lighting..
1: Lower current consumption, Florescent are better than Incandescent but LED's are better still.
2: Less likelyhood of breakage, and far easier to clean up if they break (I'm not so much worried about the tiny amount of mercury as I am the coated glass. that stuff is nasty)
3: A good LED assembly will outlast you.. Florcesent's a couple years if you are lucky.
An idea....
Friend of mine (Brought me my computer when I was in Hospital).. Replaced the florcesent tubes in one of his Thin-Light brand twin tube fixtures with a surface mount LED back up light assembly from a store in MI,Oh,KY called Meijer's.. I suspect Wally World will have it and if not auto______ (almost any store with AUTO in it's name)
Till he pointed it I could not tell the difference.
And there is room for TWO of those back up lights in that housing, That would give you the option of a HIGH/LOW light level.
Fnally, YES you can dim florcesents, not easy though
You canalso DIM led's Much easier.
1: Lower current consumption, Florescent are better than Incandescent but LED's are better still.
2: Less likelyhood of breakage, and far easier to clean up if they break (I'm not so much worried about the tiny amount of mercury as I am the coated glass. that stuff is nasty)
3: A good LED assembly will outlast you.. Florcesent's a couple years if you are lucky.
An idea....
Friend of mine (Brought me my computer when I was in Hospital).. Replaced the florcesent tubes in one of his Thin-Light brand twin tube fixtures with a surface mount LED back up light assembly from a store in MI,Oh,KY called Meijer's.. I suspect Wally World will have it and if not auto______ (almost any store with AUTO in it's name)
Till he pointed it I could not tell the difference.
And there is room for TWO of those back up lights in that housing, That would give you the option of a HIGH/LOW light level.
Fnally, YES you can dim florcesents, not easy though
You canalso DIM led's Much easier.
