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MEXICOWANDERER
Nov 13, 2020Explorer
LED lighting for RVs is still in it's infancy.
I have built LED emitters that stay cool and blast out high noon amounts of light on 2-watts consumed. The problem is the sizes of the heat-sink and 3.7 volt regulator. Properly built there just aren"t any reasons for these lamps not to work for decades. According to friends a 5 mm red emitter I set up on the coast in 1981 is still 24/7. That's 39 years. It's mounted on a service drop box.
I have built LED emitters that stay cool and blast out high noon amounts of light on 2-watts consumed. The problem is the sizes of the heat-sink and 3.7 volt regulator. Properly built there just aren"t any reasons for these lamps not to work for decades. According to friends a 5 mm red emitter I set up on the coast in 1981 is still 24/7. That's 39 years. It's mounted on a service drop box.
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