I just LOVE IT to see folks buying a forty grand fifth wheel haul it all the way down here, park it on a boondock beach and then find out the hardest possible way that all that glitter and formaldehyde based luxury has to remain dark after sundown. Lots of slideouts and lots of space to need a flashlight to see. To me, putting an LED lamp in a place that the lamp is used 15 seconds a week is sort of silly. I even dumped my CFL in my land based bathroom as my face glowed red when I turned it on for 15 seconds at a time and it didn't even begin to warm up. Same for the motion detector lamp outside. An LED for 9-seconds a night? I do just fine with a 6-watt room LED light and turn on a similar wattage LED for spot specific lighting.
I love that crack about Baja camping, restaurants and cooking. most gringos wouldn't recognize good Mexican cooking if it snuck up behind them and bit them in the ---. Big RV rigs haul commercial mixers waffle irons, and for god's sake a CROCK POT for wilderness camping. 150 watts for six hours. Now that makes sense! Not! Ask any one of them if they brought a pressure cooker. No! Ninety percent of groceries that they haul down for a hundred dollars in extra gasoline spent either gets jettisoned before they start back, or ends up back in their driveway only cost them TWO hundred dollars in extra gasoline.
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Which lights get used every danged day and how long do they stay on? Every day long burn lights need to be LED. But while folks use dimmers and indirect lighting at home, they choose night football stadium intensity for living room background lighting when camping. I have 1/4 watt nightlights for bedroom to bathroom use at night. Plenty of light.
One of the most misunderstood lights of all is the old-fashioned mantle type wall mount RV lamps. When I get up, need to manufacture EGGS BENEDICT, need light and heat, I fire up the LPG lantern. That and the stove warm me up and that lantern is bright! I figure something like 200 watts or 2,000 lumens worth.
Like my old cowboy great-uncle used to quip "Sonny, ya gotta be smarter than the problem"
