How many LEDs?

[Eyetattoo]

I'm getting ready to convert all my interior lights to LED but am wondering how many LED lights is needed on each bulb? Ive seen anywhere from 10-68 LEDs for the wedge type bulb I need. On top of that there are ones that look like disks and others that are more tubular. All of these bulbs will be going in dome lights. Thanks!

[gmc6000]

I just finished replacing all the bulbs in my toy hauler with these LED lights

Very nice light. Not plug and play, had to cut and solder the connecters, but was pretty simple.

[Eyetattoo]

smkettner wrote:
You need to worry more about lumens and temperature.
Need 250-400 lumens to have same quantity of light.
Need about 3500K to be a warm(yellowish) light, about 6000K is a bright white closer to sunlight.

How can I tell how many lumens my current bulbs have? I cant seem to see any writing on the bulbs in there now. Thanks.

[derwud]

I have screwed around with a lot LED's and these are the best I have ever found.
M4 LED's

[Shadow_Catcher]

I supplied the marine light fixtures that went into our teardrop (less kludgy looking) designed for a G4 bulb. You want arrays that are side facing (or you waste some light). Some that use the wedge base need to be attached using double stick tape. All of ours are high end arrays but as spares I purchased 10 for 10$ with shipping from China arrays and decided to see if I could destroy one. Using a PWM controller and a couple of 12v batteries in series I slowly took it up to 23.5V. at that point two of the SMD unsoldered themselves from the circuit board, VERY hot, but the rest still functioned.

[Golden_HVAC]

Hi,

I did not replace all 25 something lights in my RV with LED's. The basement lights are only on about 10 minutes every month, so no need to ever change them. The main ones I would use are the overhead near the entrance / dining area, where I primarily use a 26W florescent and a 8 W florescent. The ones over the couch, and the ones in the bathroom and bedroom.

For the bedroom, I used a 24 LED 5050 panel, I recently bought some for $1.20 each when I bought 50 of them from www.aliexpress.com First search for 24 LED 5050 panel, then search by price, lowest first. Weed out those who say $0.85 buy 1,0000 minimum, and start looking at a reasonable number, such as 10 - 25 each.

For my bathroom, I have 2 each 24 LED panels on each side of the factory light fixture, or 4 total that collectively draw 0.4 amps. This is plenty of light, and a bit more blue than before.

For the porch light, I also installed 4 of the panels.

Fred.

[mthockeydad]

lightfoot wrote:
I have been replacing my puck lights in the ceiling with these and they work better than the OEM bulbs that were there.

I installed the same pucks and they are slightly less bright than the original 18W bulbs that were there.

They're adequate, and I love them for their low power consumption...guessing they're maybe 70% as bright as the originals.



The warm white is pretty close in color to the incandescent bulbs.

Bright white is really similar to fluorescents.

[time2roll]

You need to worry more about lumens and temperature.
Need 250-400 lumens to have same quantity of light.
Need about 3500K to be a warm(yellowish) light, about 6000K is a bright white closer to sunlight.

[lightfoot]

I have been replacing my puck lights in the ceiling with these and they work better than the OEM bulbs that were there.

[tenbear]

chezmoose, you are very welcome. If you have more specific questions please feel free to ask on this forum. There are many very knowledgeable people here. Just be sure to include all applicable info. Too much is better than too little.

Hope you enjoy your new to you TT. Your signature is a good place to put info.

[chezmoose]

Lynnmor and tenbear, thank you! Those were exactly what I was looking for!
I realize they are not specific to our make and model (neither is our owners manual, unfortunately) but I think they help to understand how the basic systems work. If we end up needing more precise info will attempt to get that directly from Skyline.

We are going through all the various manuals and labeling what each is for and also looking to see which model number we have for each appliance so we can highlight that on the manual also. Just like the Skyline manual, each appliance manual also pertains to several different models. Who knew there was so much to learn??

[Effy]

I find the generic manuals that come with most RV's practially worthless. Your manufacturer should have PDF versions of your plumbing and wiring schematics specific to your unit. Bear in mind these can have some differences depending on who put your wiring or plumbing together at the factory that day (ask me how I know) but it's about as good as it gets. RV books are helpful but if you want specific information on how your RV is plumbed and wired you have to get that info from the manufacturer directly. Although generally speaking most RV's are the same basic design, EVERY RV is different with how the plumbing, wiring, breakers etc are run. They can even be different in the same model depending on which day it rolled off the line. Mine has 4 breaker planels only 2 of which the manufacturer actually had documented. They other 2 they didn't have a clue where they were and further they had no specific idea what was wired to each panel and none of it was labeled. That's fun to figure out. Low point drains and winterization bypass were different than the schematic they sent me for my exact model. There is no quality control in RV's.

[tenbear]

Here is one you might be interested in.

Clicky.

[Lynnmor]

Check this post:

diagrams

[wa8yxm]

There are a couple of books you should leaf through and possibly buy one of them.. One is published by Woodalls or Good Sams and sold at Camping World, among other places, The other is sold other places.

One is titled: The RV Book
and as I recall the other is: The RV Owner's Handbook.

These are both "Generic user's Manuals". and they do a fairly good job of describing many of the systems on your motor home.. On a couple of them they are actually BETTER than the factory manual as they were written BY RVers for RVers nto by engineers for other engineers.