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voodoo101
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Oct 24, 2014

LED night lite solutions?

I am looking to use a very low wattage LED for a night lite. I just want a dim lite in the living area for those dark, late night trips we old men make. Most of the LEDs are much too bright for my purpose. Can I take a small paddle LED and remove/disable some of the leds without destroying it? The place I have in mind is the standard 921 fixture. The low wattage goal is because we always dry camp and are always thinking battery use. Thanks, bill
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  • After trying a few lights to do the same thing for those late night trips,and with a small power draw I found These on Amazon.

    I like the hooded lens,it keeps the light focused downward thus making it less intrusive.

    Mounted near the floor they give off just the right amount of light.

    The pictures in the ad are a bit deceiving, they are not as bright as the pictures.
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  • Some ideas in this forum thread

    If you aren't boondocking, there's lots of 120 volt motion sensor night lights that plug into a recept. We have one in the bathroom in our TT that has a neon lamp.

    I find the blue light from our radio in the living area and from the microwave to be enough to navigate around at night. I had a blue LED voltmeter in a previous TT that gave off enough light at night.

    The easiest solution is to have a small LED flashlight at the bedside. DW uses one at night at home and when camping because of vertigo and a loss of sense of balance. Works fine for her. Wakes me up sometimes tho.
  • One of our previous rigs had lots of extra lights in it, so I went to the local auto parts store and paid just a few dollars for a pair of LED replacements made for automotive parking lamp replacements- they slipped right in where the incandescent lamp was before in the original fixture. The light output was too low for reading, but it made a good night light.
  • NO.. i think that would destroy the paddle, they are voltage and current regulated

    you can buy some LED strip lights, Most can be 'cut' into pieces
    the ones i have you can cut the strip into segments, containing multiples of '3' leds, so they can be 3,6,9 leds long

    one or two '3 led' segments would make a very tiny wattage LED night light
    63 leds , 3 strips of 21 leds, uses only 14w

    30 leds , two strips, of 15 leds, ues only 7w

    you can get these on a reel of 16ft aka 5 meters for about $12 on Amazon or ebay
    more leds than you need for a few night lights, but the price is right

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