Replacement LED bulbs recommendation

PFitt wrote:
Try M4 Products not the cheapest but high quality and lots to choose from

I did half our trailer with these and we love them. The color and brightness are great. These appear to be a higher quality product than many I've looked at. Happy with my purchase and planning to finish the remainder soon.

Andy F wrote:

Acdii wrote:
If you want a solar charger under $100, look for a Coleman 18W with charge controller. It may not charge while under heavy load, but if you have a light load on it will maintain charge levels. I use on on my RC trailer. I have an AGM Deep Cycle running a 1200Watt Inverter, and LED strip lighting. During a sunny day it will top off the battery, and under a light load where I had my Lipo charger charging up some RX batteries, it maintain 12.5 volts. It cost me $82 on sale. After you replace all the interior lighting with LED, it may be able to maintain voltage with a couple lights going, though it would be day time, so why you would need lights on......

Thank you for the recommendation!

Save your money, don't buy a 18W solar panel.

18W will barely be enough to overcome the internal battery discharge loss. It is nothing more than a TOY.

Put it another way, 18W is about 1.5A MAX at full sun, you might get an average of FIVE HRS of full sun.. That means you get about 7.5 Ahrs of full sun charging!

A group 24 battery only gives you 80 Ahr of capacity.. and of that you don't want to use half of that.. 7.5 Ahr of charge is a drop in the bucket IF you are lucky.

You really need 100W or more to make any real noticeable difference..

Solar is not a place to cut corners if you really want to do it right the first time.

Acdii wrote:
If you want a solar charger under $100, look for a Coleman 18W with charge controller. It may not charge while under heavy load, but if you have a light load on it will maintain charge levels. I use on on my RC trailer. I have an AGM Deep Cycle running a 1200Watt Inverter, and LED strip lighting. During a sunny day it will top off the battery, and under a light load where I had my Lipo charger charging up some RX batteries, it maintain 12.5 volts. It cost me $82 on sale. After you replace all the interior lighting with LED, it may be able to maintain voltage with a couple lights going, though it would be day time, so why you would need lights on......

Thank you for the recommendation!

If you want a solar charger under $100, look for a Coleman 18W with charge controller. It may not charge while under heavy load, but if you have a light load on it will maintain charge levels. I use on on my RC trailer. I have an AGM Deep Cycle running a 1200Watt Inverter, and LED strip lighting. During a sunny day it will top off the battery, and under a light load where I had my Lipo charger charging up some RX batteries, it maintain 12.5 volts. It cost me $82 on sale. After you replace all the interior lighting with LED, it may be able to maintain voltage with a couple lights going, though it would be day time, so why you would need lights on......

purchased mine from M4 product's great customer service and quality bulbs, got mine in two days on the east coast from California , cost a bit more than what you see on amazon or eBay but happy so far.

Try M4 Products not the cheapest but high quality and lots to choose from

I ordered these on Amazon:

AUTOSAVER88 20X T10 Wedge Side RV Trailer 42-SMD LED Pure White Interior Light 192 168 2825

Skipping any solar panel for now. Not sure if I will do solar until we make the next leap up to a Class A motorhome at or closer to retirement in 8 years.

Swapped out all my interior lights with LEDS I bought on Amazon. About 1/2 the price you would pay at CW. Not so much for energy savings, as it was for the heat the OEM bulbs generated, thus discoloring the fixture lenses. Replaced the Porch light bulb as well.

Not a lot of time left until this weekend, a nearby Camping World might carry the type your rig requires. Amazon with 2 day shipping is about the only other choice that you could rely on for delivery before this weekend. We purchased practically all of our LEDs from an Ebay seller recommended by this forum about 4 years ago but they took over 2 weeks to arrive. Offhand I don't know of any solar panel under $100 that can reliably recharge your batteries since most in that price range don't have enough watts to do the job satisfactorily.