hard wire led awning light strip

afidel wrote:

RobWNY wrote:
I have the same LED light strip and just wired direct to the battery today. Does anyone know how many Amp Hours they use over a given amount of time. Say 4 hours of use? All I can find is it says they use 72 watts and are 12v

72W/12V=6A, so for 4 hours run time you'd use 24Ah.

That's what I originally thought as well but I've read in numerous posts that in reality, the strip uses about 2.6 amps unless using all white lights and then it's a full 6 amps (R-2A, G-2A, B-2A) so it's very confusing.

Porch light. Only drilling is into plastic, and it doesn't disturb the integrity of the camper. RGBW controller stuffed inside, so the remote works, runs on 12V. The controller remembers the last setting, so I usually just use it without the remote.

RobWNY wrote:
I have the same LED light strip and just wired direct to the battery today. Does anyone know how many Amp Hours they use over a given amount of time. Say 4 hours of use? All I can find is it says they use 72 watts and are 12v

72W/12V=6A, so for 4 hours run time you'd use 24Ah.

Next step would be to convert the IR controller to an RF controller. A simple conversion available on Amazon.. I always had problems trying to line up the remote with the IR receiver. With the RF remote just push the buttons, no need to aim.

I have the same LED light strip and just wired direct to the battery today. Does anyone know how many Amp Hours they use over a given amount of time. Say 4 hours of use? All I can find is it says they use 72 watts and are 12v

did this last year, same lights from amazon. went the porch light route, here's my post with photos: link

I'm about to do the same and wire into the porch light. I'd rather drill a hole into the light box than the tt. I also ordered a light adapter so I don't have to cut the wires. Screws into the bulb receptacle and has 2 pigtail wires coming out. Found it all by searching Google and YouTube just can't find the link anymore to share. I'll look again when I have time.

I installed a LED lightstrip and ran the wires down the awning track and into the front pass-through. Power was picked off the light fixture in the pass-through.

Should be easy enough. Just remove the porch light, and connect into the wires there. Hard to do a video without seeing the rig you are working with. Just remember that if you leave it connected, the porch wight will on whenever the led lights are. Easy to fix by just removing the bulb.

thanks for all the reply's, I'm not sure if I want to drill a hole though...I'm not that confident in my abilities. maybe I could try wiring it to the outside porch light but I feel like a need a video of this to truly understand this.