LED bulbs
If your carmper/rv uses old style 12 volt car bulbs check out Amazon.com, they have 10 pack of led bulbs for under 20 bucks. Whiter light, cooler, less power. Best cheap upgrade to my rv ever. Better than $9.00/bulb at rv supply places.
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- The first 5050 LED panels I bought years ago were $22 each. I just recently bought 24x5630 LED panels for less than $1 each.
- I converted all mine about 3 years ago, bought them on eBay. They were pretty cheap then and still cheaper now.
They sure save a lot of battery power. - Has anyone found reasonable priced 1156 style with long neck LED replacements? I have 6 of those, 4 of the regular 1156. I thought about using the regular ones in place of the long neck but the "can" is not big enough to get fingers in with the regular style bulb... I am also looking for the G4 style, have not settled on one yet.
Oasisbob wrote:
They sure have come down in price. And I hear the quality is better as well. I went all LED three years back with the cheaper chinese units. So much better than original incondescents. Money well spent.
(They sure have come down in price) 2nd that!!- I went all LED a few weeks ago. I got 10 through Amazon and paid $17.99 for them.
HOTSYSTEM 1156 7506 1003 1141 LED SMD 18 LED Bulbs Interior RV Camper White 10-pack
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$17.99 - They sure have come down in price. And I hear the quality is better as well. I went all LED three years back with the cheaper chinese units. So much better than original incondescents. Money well spent.
- I upgraded mine with panels that are 24 LED's on each panel, and they are 5050 emitters. (5.0MM square). They cost me $1.20 each when I bought 50. I removed the wires to the factory twist in bulb holder, and wired in the panels. They are a lot more blue than I like but save a lot of energy. I am sure that they now sell a warmer (more red than blue tint to the light) LED now.
I have 4 of the panels in my porch light and it consumes a total of 0.6 amps at 12 volts, and provides about 4X the light of the old 1.1 amp incandescent bulb.
At one point, in 2013, I posted it would be less expensive to buy a 100 watt solar panel and install it, than to convert my energy hog incandescent lights to LED's at $10 per fixture. The price has come down to reasonable now!
I also used to recommend only changing the most used lights, instead of "All" of them. If you don't run it more than 5 minutes per trip, it is not worth changing it. This includes most basement lights, except perhaps the one near the sewer hookup.
Have fun camping!
Fred.
