Using camper energy savings ideas (LED) in your house?
I just converted 80% of my camper lighting to LED.
Bought a sack of 24-diodes LED panels, each with 3 adapters for different bulb sockets and I paid $1.05 a piece with free shipping from China.
Anyway, like the panel idea as not only I could multiply the panels inside my old fluorescent housing, or stick it higher inside refrigerator what not only save energy, but give much better light.
With 12V it is easy as you don't have to worry about exposed wires.
Now I took a look inside my household refrigerator and it has 2 powerful bulbs in freezer part + 3 in refrigerator part.
The freezer light, being on the side of top shelf sucks as well as taller food package covers most of it.
My worry about bulb energy use is secondary as they come only for few seconds with door opening, but they look like 40 W incandescent bulbs, so they also generate quite a heat, what freezer has to absorb.
Meaning puting LED there would gain pretty good energy saving and would extend compressor life as well.
The problem is that those are 120V, so you can't have wires exposed and the original bulbs are pretty small in diameter with weird sockets.
It is smaller than regural bulb socket, but bigger than my chandelier sockets.
I think for this application to use LED I would need smaller power converter and than I could use the leftovers in the sack of LED I already have.
But nobody makes converters that just screw into light bulb socket, so did anybody figure out easy way to do it?
I would not worry too much about cosmetics, but want it to be safe.
How LED take 0F anyway?
Bought a sack of 24-diodes LED panels, each with 3 adapters for different bulb sockets and I paid $1.05 a piece with free shipping from China.
Anyway, like the panel idea as not only I could multiply the panels inside my old fluorescent housing, or stick it higher inside refrigerator what not only save energy, but give much better light.
With 12V it is easy as you don't have to worry about exposed wires.
Now I took a look inside my household refrigerator and it has 2 powerful bulbs in freezer part + 3 in refrigerator part.
The freezer light, being on the side of top shelf sucks as well as taller food package covers most of it.
My worry about bulb energy use is secondary as they come only for few seconds with door opening, but they look like 40 W incandescent bulbs, so they also generate quite a heat, what freezer has to absorb.
Meaning puting LED there would gain pretty good energy saving and would extend compressor life as well.
The problem is that those are 120V, so you can't have wires exposed and the original bulbs are pretty small in diameter with weird sockets.
It is smaller than regural bulb socket, but bigger than my chandelier sockets.
I think for this application to use LED I would need smaller power converter and than I could use the leftovers in the sack of LED I already have.
But nobody makes converters that just screw into light bulb socket, so did anybody figure out easy way to do it?
I would not worry too much about cosmetics, but want it to be safe.
How LED take 0F anyway?
