installing those LED strip lights under the awning

Doug33 wrote:

PacNWChris wrote:
My trailer has an LED strip light already installed. It's one of those "cool white" LED strips. It's great if you need a lot of bright light to find something or direct air traffic ... but not so much for lounging outside, or eating, or playing a board or card game.

That was my experience on my last trip. Several people had them on full power, and it looked like the landing area in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. And unfortunately, two people left them on all night long. The CG looked like Broadway in the city that never sleeps.

It reminded me of the Seinfeld episode where they couldn't sleep because of the Kenny Rogers Chicken bright neon sign across the street.

I was at Lake Powell for a week earlier this month, and this guy, maybe 5 sites down in my loop (and the sites there are pretty far apart) has some kind of flood light clamped to the roof of his trailer to light up his site. Unfortunately, it not only lit up his site, but because it had the illumination power of a small star, he graciously shared his light with a good portion of Loop B. >:-( At least he didn't leave it on all night long.

On a previous trailer we had one that we could adjust the color and intensity on. A nice faint red/orange color is really easy on the eyes at night. Then when you turn it off, your eyes don't take long to adjust for stargazing. :-)