Kinda curious if anyone has added more brake lights to their TT/5er. Mine are a common Optronics and quite frankly, are far from what's needed for good safety from rear enders.

Similar to this one but in nonobtanium black and with a back up light - cheep!!! I had a lens stolen while on our long trip, yes, stolen. The entire light has been replaced with a white version.They are not very bright even with a direct battery test before installing with the remaining black one even worse then the white one.




I'm leaving those in place as there are 4 screw holes and a bigger one for wires.

I ordered these, below, with 10 LEDs each - and they are very bright and reasonably small at about 6-3/4 x 3-1/4. Since there is very little current draw, expect to wire in the same circuit/wire and directly below the existing taillights.




I guess that I could just put LED 1157 replacements in the existing taillights instead and may yet but these new assemblies added may be a better choice after being, ahem, 'criticized' strongly as well as being 'saluted' by a single finger wave in St. Louis, feel that I need a lot better lighting.

Any comments? Yes, I could directly replace the existing but after a couple hours of searching, couldn't find one to cover the existing screw holes. If someone can point me towards one with tail/brake/backup lights to mount on a flat surface, covering the 4x7 inch screw hole dimension could be tempted to change my direction.

 

Nope, looks like not a one

 

What was the question again?

I have often thought about replacing the lights on my boat trailer and campers with LEDs, but quite frankly, the price usually squashes that. After all, the ones I have already work.

The bulbs in all my tail lights are 1157s, which is pretty much the standard, if I'm not mistaken. Why would they be any less bright on the camper than on the back of a car?

 

1157, 1156, 1141... when they Stop making them I will look into something else...

I have 2 trouble lights for working on cars...

1 is ac powered thru a brick and another 1 with rechargeable cells....

both have bits not lighting... to me the reliability has not been proven...

besides I would need about 60 or so... inside trailer has 28... 1141....

 

One place LEDs make sense is in your back-up lights - if you change your socket from a single hot wire (like it has now) to a double wire socket (like you see in combined 1157 running light/brake lights) you can jumper your brake light circuit to the second wire on the new socket. They make 'switchback' LED bulbs which have two colors - get one that is white/red. When the backups are on, it glows white - when you hit the brakes, though, it shines red as an additional brake light. Only time it looks a little funny is if you hit the brakes in reverse, you get a pink light from the combined light.

 

I was actually looking at adding some LED back up lights or an LED light bar. There's a current post here https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...up-lights.html where the OP did just that. It's been on my list of 'if I ever get time' projects.

Reading up on LEDs - according to SuperBright website, found out that if your lens is red, you need a red LED and so on. A clear bulb is too dim as the colors cancel out

 

That is true, if you put a white light behind a red lens it is less bright than an equivalent wattage red light behind the same lens. Nice thing that back-up lights have clear lenses, so your red LED shines through pretty brightly. Remember, the point is not that you blind someone with the extra bulb, bit you add to the size of your brake lights without actually adding any extra light housings. More brake lights in the same light square footage, so to speak, but you still retain your normal back-up lights, too.