LED Lights Installed

[austinado16]

We just came back from ten days of camping. I installed by LED's a year ago and during our trip one of my LED's boards half of the LED's went out. I mean of the 36 LED's on the board 12 to 18 of the bulbs went out. So I am not to happy about paying so much and now they are starting to break down.
In all fairness I did not get the double sided tape and stick the LED board to the top side of the light fixture. I just let the board hang freely within the light cover. So the bouncing around while in travel might have caused this to happen. Don't know :confused: but it kinda makes sense. I am going to get the double sided tape for my other LED's and only time will tell if this is an issue with them :mad:

Recumbentman.....what the h:yikes:ll were you thinking?  

Yes, the banging around killed your LED's.  The good news is, you can buy the LED's and solder them in and fix what you have.

I've got 4 of the 9LED PCB's mounted with double sided tape and they've been fine. Same with the 24 or 36LED I mounted inside my porch light.  I don't remove it, and it's been fine.

[jpcjtrtj]

Just put in my own LEDs in tonight -- in the garage no less (my neighbors are convinced we're nuts).  The lights are awesome.  I first bought the wedge sockets and then found I had 1156 bulbs in the main cabin.  Oh well, now I have three backup bulbs for the utility light and the outside light.  The interior lights work great.  Not quite as bright, but now I won't have to yell to the kids to turn off the lights when we don't have hook ups.  thanks all for the advice and suggestions.

[G Bird]

Thanks for posting this and for the links Keith!  I saw your post over on PUX and was looking at the square light fixtures yesterday.

120 lumens and 3,300k warm light.  Man, I wish I hadn't just spent $125 for the 9LED 92 lumen version from SuperbriteLEDs.com.

Always something better around the corner isn't there!

In reference to the fixtures that Keith linked to -- where did you find those specs? I have looked and don't see them.

Thanks, Gary.

[G Bird]

OK, It's been a while since I've posted. Not a whole lot of camping activity yet this year.
But I must share this since I haven't seen these mentioned on the forum.
I was in search of some nice LED fixtures 'cause I didn't like the ones that came with the PUP from the factory.
I found these for $29.95 each. They have about the same depth as the stock units (won't interfere with closing the PUP), have 120 lumens of nice warm white light. Got them Saturday, installed them Saturday and I am very impressed! Leaving for the CG (dry camping) on Wednesday, so we should do well on battery usage.
http://www.swego.com/store/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=406

They also have round ones:
http://www.swego.com/store/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=343

and bare bulbs (sorry. no connectors on the ends):
http://www.swego.com/store/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=59&idproduct=332

I had them shipped USPS Priority Mail, so I got them in about 3 days.

Plans are to convert the remainder of my existing fixtures (bunk-end lights) with the bare-bulb.

okay, so I should have asked Keith this. Where did you find the specs?

[jpcjtrtj]

they work great.  I'm too dumb to figure out the load on the battery, so I'll take ya'll's word that I'm saving power.  I got plenty of light, but there's a weird yellowish nature to the reading light . . . but I'll get used to it I'm sure.

My question:  One of the lights has 3 diodes that keep flickering.  Can this be fixed?  If so, how?  If not, I assume superbrights will send me a replacement?

[handfixer]

Hey Gang,

My sister told me about a website with really price on goods.  I was browsing around and I noticed they had LED lights like the ones I bought 4 months ago from superbrightleds for $22 each.  They were selling them for about $6-7 bucks with free shipping.  Looks like its coming from directly from China.  Unfortunately, I converted most of my lights 4 months ago.  Here is a link for one of LEDs lights. I justed wanted share.  I was excited when I seen them.

Website is //www.dealextreme.com

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.21290