[p]I bought these last week and have replaced all our incandescent bulbs in the trailer. Wanted to maximize the battery life and these are a great way to do it. As we know they use ~1/10th the power.[/p][p]
[/p][p]Kicker is they are offered in sometime deceiving values/specs. There are two versions of these floating around on the web. Some simply list them as 12V and some give a range of voltages like 8-13V and 11-24V. When our chargers are charging we often see 14+V. Some of these LEDS are not regulated well enough to survive this. They can melt, smoke or simply fail.[/p][p]
[/p][p]These LEDS are cheap at $23/10 pcs. The color is a touch cooler than in incandescent they replaced but not at all annoying. They appear brighter but I have no way of validating that other than eyeballing it. They are well built but some of them are tilted on the base slightly. It's hardly noticeable when installed and the diffuser is in place but they are tilted. Probly why they are so cheap.[/p][p]
[/p][p]I recommend. These are the 11-24V version. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EDFM5QU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1[/p]
I replaced all mine with the same ones in my trailer as well. No issues so far with any of them burning out etc. I also used this in my exterior light:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007H2PRUW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
For the exterior light we used this one. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006I9N0WW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Question, in the bathroom, do you also have a sealed exterior fixture that takes a different socket type than the rest of the interior ones? I do and I simply splayed the pancake type LED pins and inserted one into the dual post type socket there. Paying close attention to polarity. That tiny bulb we replaced in the bathroom ran hotter than Hades. Still got seared fingertips from that one.
Glad to hear of no problems with these.
[quote source="/post/8836/thread" timestamp="1428144840" author="@whoofit"]For the exterior light we used this one. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006I9N0WW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Question, in the bathroom, do you also have a sealed exterior fixture that takes a different socket type than the rest of the interior ones? I do and I simply splayed the pancake type LED pins and inserted one into the dual post type socket there. Paying close attention to polarity. That tiny bulb we replaced in the bathroom ran hotter than Hades. Still got seared fingertips from that one.
Glad to hear of no problems with these.[/quote]Yes. I replaced that one also. I got that bulb off of ebay as I recall, but can't remember the size. It was tough to figure out how to remove the housing. I agree very hot burning bulb in that one!
i originally replaced all 8 inside our vrv with the ones you can find at camping world/discount rv parts/etc. at about $11 a piece, it was a pricey upgrade, but since we boondock all the time i really wanted the power savings.
the color always annoyed me because they were that cold white/hopspital light color. unfortunately trhat was all i could find at the time (i shouldve looked harder). since the prices of leds has dropped so much, i replaced them with ith these from amazon
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HZNNLVK/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
they work well and have a much better color (old on left/new on right)
(http://i350.photobucket.com/albums/q439/mushr00min/camper/20150215_124935_zpspwqjrusk.jpg)
That's a huge improvement in color. Like you I don't tolerate cool lights well at all. Makes everything look the same color to me. Even gives me a headache at times, adds stress while in the woods. I will sacrifice a few lumens/lux for color any day.
Nice color temp.
Our BC7X20 came with all LED lighting from the factory, but it is a fairly cool color temp. I'll have to look at them closer and see how easy it would be to replace the LEDs. I'm guessing not easy, because they don't look anything like the bulb replacements linked above, they look like strips of LEDs...
[quote source="/post/8914/thread" timestamp="1428334501" author="@billmoore"]Our BC7X20 came with all LED lighting from the factory, but it is a fairly cool color temp. I'll have to look at them closer and see how easy it would be to replace the LEDs. I'm guessing not easy, because they don't look anything like the bulb replacements linked above, they look like strips of LEDs...[/quote]Don't rule it out. Take the cover off one and post a picture. Maybe we can determine the socket size. Mine were all 921 sockets IIRC.
[quote source="/post/8944/thread" timestamp="1428367111" author="@tlbones"][quote source="/post/8914/thread" timestamp="1428334501" author="@billmoore"]Our BC7X20 came with all LED lighting from the factory, but it is a fairly cool color temp. I'll have to look at them closer and see how easy it would be to replace the LEDs. I'm guessing not easy, because they don't look anything like the bulb replacements linked above, they look like strips of LEDs...[/quote]Don't rule it out. Take the cover off one and post a picture. Maybe we can determine the socket size. Mine were all 921 sockets IIRC.[/quote]Good to know, I'll check it out next weekend...