Outside camping lights

[polar76]

Campers, Please turn off your outside lights when you go to bed as a courtesy to other campers who would like to sleep with the windows open.

[Boon_Docker]

People that need scare lights turned on shouldn't go camping, maybe they should just stay at home where they feel safe.
And sell their trailer to someone that is not afraid of the boogeyman.

[rockhillmanor]

Campers, Please turn off your outside lights when you go to bed as a courtesy to other campers who would like to sleep with the windows open.

Full timed RV'd for 10 years and it ain't never going to happen.
Especially since they started installing those huge scare lights on the fifth wheels.

Regarding the

Blue

lights?
Well this sure didn't keep me awake because he was parked behind me. BUT when I went to let the dogs our around midnight when I stepped out it scared me half to death. I thought the dang aliens had finally landed!! :B

inferno at night

inferno day

inferno lugs
I guess when you need spiked lugs on your truck you need to light up your TT in blue at night also!



Gotta admit though I would have liked a tow vehicle like the one that went with this TT! :C

[Ralph_Cramden]

bid_time wrote:

polar76 wrote:
Campers, Please turn off your outside lights when you go to bed as a courtesy to other campers who would like to sleep with the windows open.

Close Your shades/blinds (that's why they're there). Then you won't have to make posts that change nothing nor worry about if other people are going to live up to your expectations. Or you can continually experience failure. Take your pick.

Closing your shades doesnt do much. When your sitting around the campfire at 11:00 PM, and some ******* geezer on the site next to you has his 737 landing lights he installed on the back/ streetside of his trailer where they serve no real purpose, blasting straight at you while he went off to saw logs at 8:30 PM now does it?

[bid_time]

polar76 wrote:
Campers, Please turn off your outside lights when you go to bed as a courtesy to other campers who would like to sleep with the windows open.

Close Your shades/blinds (that's why they're there). Then you won't have to make posts that change nothing nor worry about if other people are going to live up to your expectations. Or you can continually experience failure. Take your pick.

[dodge_guy]

gbopp wrote:

jplante4 wrote:
The latest trend is the plug that keeps your running lights on all night. I'm not sure I understand why you would want to do that.

At least they don't hook the running lights up to a flasher....

I have a flasher! I use it for Halloween weekends to go with all the decorations.

[dodge_guy]

And to those of you that leave the outside work light on, on the street side of the trailer. We know you`ve owned the trailer for quite a while so you know which switch is which. Why touch it at all?

[Ralph_Cramden]

Tvov wrote:
Why would people put blue lights on their camper? Isn't that what is used in bug zappers to attract bugs?

At busy, commercial campgrounds I kind of expect a certain amount of stuff - loud people, kids running around, a lot more lighting. At virtually all of the private and state campgrounds we've been to that I remember, everyone abides by the 10 or 11pm "quiet" time and pretty much shuts most lights off (along with quieting down).

Actually, I do remember once a 5th wheel next to us had a big light on the front of it, mostly designed to light up the area while hitching I think. I mentioned it to the owner the next morning, and he was surprised, apologized and shut it off - he simply hadn't realized it had been on.

At a local PA state park we frequent they upgraded 12 of 270 sites to full hook up. The full hookup site are (6 on each side of a road which splits a loop in half) is always now lit up like the Vegas strip, noisy, and it seems the people who book those sites have no idea of camping etiquette. I booked one once the first year they were open and quickly learned to book in the future far away from that area. Sadly a large field right next to those sites was a popular dark sky area for amateur astronomy. It's not anymore. Even the local deer population who used to graze that field all night long stay away. When we had one of those sites which was in the fall a special touch was the old fart in a large class A who had the need to fire up a gas leaf blower every time a few leaves fell off the trees and he had two bug rappers zapping away 24/7. That was special since we were on a mountainside, in the woods, next to a lake and he could of zapped bugs till the end of time and not made a **** difference.

[Tvov]

Why would people put blue lights on their camper? Isn't that what is used in bug zappers to attract bugs?

At busy, commercial campgrounds I kind of expect a certain amount of stuff - loud people, kids running around, a lot more lighting. At virtually all of the private and state campgrounds we've been to that I remember, everyone abides by the 10 or 11pm "quiet" time and pretty much shuts most lights off (along with quieting down).

Actually, I do remember once a 5th wheel next to us had a big light on the front of it, mostly designed to light up the area while hitching I think. I mentioned it to the owner the next morning, and he was surprised, apologized and shut it off - he simply hadn't realized it had been on.

[SoundGuy]

bob213 wrote:
Hey SoundGuy..How about a view of the inside of that box. Regardless if anyone likes it or not, the flashing lights are a great way to let an emergency vehicle know where to go if they are called out at night. I have used just a flasher (and the EMT thanked me) but the box is a cleaner setup. Share please.

Actually I use mine every time I back on to my driveway from the street - makes the trailer a lot more visible flashing ALL the lights on the trailer rather than just the tail lights via the truck's 4-way flasher.





For a "cleaner setup" I later duplicated this circuitry in my tongue mounted fresh water transfer pump box - just hit the switch and the running lights turn on fully or flash.

[Sandia_Man]

I agree with you on bright lights being left on all night, whether getting some to comply even after asking them nicely is a whole other thing. People are different and as long as it is not disallowed where they happen to be RVing there is not much one can do. Unfortunately, it's impossible to make everyone happy, there is always someone who wants you to camp exactly as they do, which is not going to happen as often as one would like. I guess that is one of the reasons we prefer boondocking and dry camping where there is much more space between us and any neighbors if they happen to be nearby.

[doxiemom11]

Full time in our 8th year and don't understand what everyone is so afraid of. There hasn't been 1 night that we have left a light on and 0 nights that there has ever been a bright light on, and nothing has ever happened in the night. We must be camping in the wrong places.

[GordonThree]

Lots of adults seem to be afraid of the dark. I toured a campground this past week that had a street light above every electric pedestal, and extra flood lights shining at every corner in the road.

I asked the office clerk why so many lights. He claimed as it was a township owned campground they were over cautious about safety. *Sigh* they lost my business right there.

[bob213]

Hey SoundGuy..How about a view of the inside of that box. Regardless if anyone likes it or not, the flashing lights are a great way to let an emergency vehicle know where to go if they are called out at night. I have used just a flasher (and the EMT thanked me) but the box is a cleaner setup. Share please.

[SidecarFlip]

DutchmenSport wrote:
We were at Quakertown State Recreation Area (Indiana), near Liberty, Indiana. We arrived on a Thursday evening and we were practically, the only camper there. It was so dark at night, you couldn't even see your hand in front of your face. It was marvelous! Friday night the week-enders started coming in and then this happened (photos below). We were parked clear on the other side of the campground and had no neighbors. These lights were so bright, I could easily read a newspaper by this light at my camper.

Next day I made an attempt to look at the camper with the blue lights. Looked like they put aftermarket blue lights across the nose cap of their camper. Yea, from where they sit under the awning, they'd never see the light. But good-grief for the rest of the campground. It was absolute awful. And they left the dang things on all night.

Eventually that white (gosh-dang awful horrible unbelievable, brightest thing I'd ever seen in ANY campground) light was finally turned off. But that blue one.... bright as a search light on the top of a light house, never went off.

Yea, I was horribly disappointed, especially after the marvelous dark the night before:





If you are the owner of the camper that has these blue lights, your blue lights do not impress me. Instead, they irritate me and wish you would turn them off when you go inside!

I am OK having lights on from my neighbors when everyone is still outside after dark, kids are playing, and things going on. But gosh dang-it, when you go inside, turn the things off!

Being the 'take the bull by the horns' person I am, I would have waited until about 3 am and went over and turned them off myself, on a permanent basis. Why I always camp disbursed or in a pull off / turn out. I basically don't like inconsiderate idiots.

[Johno02]

We have a porch light with a motion sensor built in. When there is nothing going on, it goes out, any movement turns it on. If you like the dark, stay out of my campsite, and it will stay off. Easy. If it comes on, it helps me aim the shotgun.