LED lights are way too bright

1320Fastback wrote:
I feel your pain but only with the one light above our bed in our trailer. While the rest of them are the same lights they do not bother us like the very last one you turn off at night.

I have not tried it yet but I was considering experiamenting with different shades of window tint on the lenses. Figured I could get descent scraps at a tint shop.

Hey 1320Fastback, this is an RV forum, you "gotta" put a little bit of info 'bout your TT in your signature too! inquiring minds would like to know.

Nice truck.

I am in the process of converting my View for the second time. First time I used some Goldstar "bulbs" that fit into the socket, were flat panel, with 24 SMD's on each and seemed to work great. I used, and like, natural white light. It gets muted thru the frosted light covers and my old eyes need all the light they can get.



Well, the SMD's in the Goldstars started failing, with very little use. I have a couple with all still working, three with three of the SMD's out, and a couple with 10 or 12 of them out (trashed them). My guess is that there is no heat sink in them and heat killed them.

So now for the second go 'round I am reworking the fixtures (Progressive Dynamics 790 series) by removing the domed metal reflectors (of which the sockets are a permanent part) and installing flat aluminum plates to allow me to mount new flat panel LEDs from M4 Products.





I cut off the socket adapters and am hard wiring them. The sockets were part of the domed reflector and there was no flat surface to mount the LED to, so I had to make flat pieces to replace the domed reflectors.

Charles