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In some applications though, a little bit of juice ain't a bad thing. Like stoplights, for example. They get covered over with snow in blizzard conditions! I surmise something very similar happens with auto headlights and brakelights?
I really dislike the "close encounters of the third kind" ambience too. To my old fashioned eyes, the yellowish light of an incandescent light is just better.
When it comes to tail lights, I would have to agree. We had new semi-trailers with all led lighting and the ice and snow would build up on them and cover them up.
The incandescent bulbs were hot enough to keep the build up off.
As for color tones, we kinda like the "day light" shine. When we are with full hook ups, the incandescent bulbs in our lamps are fine.
Subscribing as our 2014 5er has mostly LEDs and the rest need to be changed out. The ceiling LEDs are BRIGHT but are a warm white color. I also want to change the clearance lights plus add a set of secondary LED brake lights so need all the info I can get.
Resistors generate heat. If a fella were to take that resistor and mount it to the body of the light housing somehow and use the housing as a heat sink, you would accomplish a couple things:
1) Increased resistor life
2) Introduce some heat into the housing which may keep it from icing up in the winter..
My RV came with halogen bulbs. I changed the ones I use the most with LEDs because of the heat the halogens put out. One of the bulbs was starting to melt the cover. A friend found a burn hole in a garment that was hanging next to a halogen light in a closet.
I've been buying from this seller off eBay. He has warm white and white color temps as well as the different plugs to fit multiple sockets. The only problem I have had is some of the adhesive foam tape lost it's stick and they fell off. Peeled the old off and replaced with good 3m foam tape and all is good. My interior lights have been working great for over 3 years and not one failure. I just changed all the outside marker lights to the ones linked this year. I still use incandescent tail and stop lights but added a LED strip for backup stop and tail lights. I tried the Bargman LED stop/tail light and it failed after a year, half the led's quit working.
I just ordered 40 7000K Cool White LED bulbs to replace every bulb in the new camper that I will be picking up on Wednesday. I hope 40 bulbs is enough.
I also ordered a 16' Waterproof LED strip for the awning that has 20 colors, a remote, and does all kinds of crap... fades, strobes, dimming etc etc
The first thing I am doing when I get my new 5er home is upgrade every interior/basement light in the thing to LED.... the 16' awning light I will be playing with in my house all winter and I'll stick it on the camper when I open it up for the season.
I really like the cooler operating temps, minimal draw off the battery, and beautiful illumination of the cool white.
Last year in my old rig I accidentally bumped a basement light on in the morning before travel later in the afternoon when setting up again I realized the light had been on all day by the melted and brown cover over the light. Now I check those before travel but the led lights probably are safer.
I just ordered 40 7000K Cool White LED bulbs to replace every bulb in the new camper that I will be picking up on Wednesday. I hope 40 bulbs is enough.
I also ordered a 16' Waterproof LED strip for the awning that has 20 colors, a remote, and does all kinds of crap... fades, strobes, dimming etc etc
The first thing I am doing when I get my new 5er home is upgrade every interior/basement light in the thing to LED.... the 16' awning light I will be playing with in my house all winter and I'll stick it on the camper when I open it up for the season.
I really like the cooler operating temps, minimal draw off the battery, and beautiful illumination of the cool white.
you might want to re-think that 7000K color temp - everything will look blue and gray in the RV. As a lighting professional, i'd suggest 3500K or warmer for residential/RV indoor lighting.
you might want to re-think that 7000K color temp - everything will look blue and gray in the RV. As a lighting professional, i'd suggest 3500K or warmer for residential/RV indoor lighting.
+1. Get warm white lights. The blue hue will get annoying.
you might want to re-think that 7000K color temp - everything will look blue and gray in the RV. As a lighting professional, i'd suggest 3500K or warmer for residential/RV indoor lighting.
I should have waited until I picked up the camper before buying the bulbs because the bulb type I ordered was wrong...(that 20/20 hindsight vision)
I returned the 7000K bulbs and got 6000k bulbs that fit... I haven't installed yet but normally I am a fan of a bright white with a hint of blue... I love that in cars but have never seen it in an RV..... when they arrive I'll install a few and see if I like them....
r2millers, how do you like those led scare lights? Any night time pics of those? I was looking to replace mine with led seeing that I mostly boon-dock now running off solar and batteries.
