LED Lights Installed

[austinado16]

I think if you toggle back to the beginning of this thread, they start talking about warm white and give the actual part number from the website.

[DT Sante Fe]

I think if you toggle back to the beginning of this thread, they start talking about warm white and give the actual part number from the website.

Well, I did try and go back to the begining but could not find reference to the color.
 
 In looking at the SuperBright website "Cool white" has a higher lumens output than "Warm white"  Would'nt I want the higher lumens output?

[austinado16]

Well, I did try and go back to the begining but could not find reference to the color.
 
 In looking at the SuperBright website "Cool white" has a higher lumens output than "Warm white"  Would'nt I want the higher lumens output?

My apologies.  The info is in the solar thread where Birdman got this all started:

"The LED lamps I purchased you can see and buy at //www.superbrightleds.com/other_bulbs.htm. Scroll down until you see a small panel with nine LED's on it, part number T10-PCB-CWHP9. Click on "Buy Now". For your replacement the third bulb down is "1156-PCB-WHP9 White LED Lamp" MAKE SURE YOUR SELECT "Cool White - 7000K". "

[DT Sante Fe]

My apologies.  The info is in the solar thread where Birdman got this all started:

"The LED lamps I purchased you can see and buy at //www.superbrightleds.com/other_bulbs.htm. Scroll down until you see a small panel with nine LED's on it, part number T10-PCB-CWHP9. Click on "Buy Now". For your replacement the third bulb down is "1156-PCB-WHP9 White LED Lamp" MAKE SURE YOUR SELECT "Cool White - 7000K". "

Thanks Austinado !!

[oreo57]

These are the the ones that we got from the Superbright web site and they work great the 4 white where for the inside, the 1 amber for the porch and the 1 little single bulb for the road side light I installed by the water heater.

 
Quantity:      4
Product:       1156-PCB-xWHP9 White LED Lamp $ 21.95 (each)
Options:       Cool White - 7000K
 
Quantity:      1
Product:       1156-PCB-Axx Amber LED Lamp $ 7.49 (each)
Options:       24-LED
 
Quantity:      1
Product:       WLED-6V 1-LED bulb $ 0.79 (each)
Options:       White 0.60
 
Hope this helps anyone

[austinado16]

First camping trip with my LED's:

Finally got to camp, and it was a great test for the LEDs.  All I can say is, love 'em.

With just one overhead "bulb" lit, there's plenty of light for "normal" stuff.  We lit both "bulbs" if we were doing something like playing a board game, reading, or something else where we wanted more bright light.

We were camping 3 days/nights.  Ran the Duo-Therm furnace in the late afternoon/early evenings before going to bed, but the Wave 6 Catalytic ran all night to save battery voltage.

Arrived with 12.84v in the battery and left with 12.43v.  Never could have pulled off 3 days/nights with the incandescants and heater useage, so I'm pretty happy.  Especially when I think that we were down in the trees and it was overcast the entire time, so even the nicest several-thousand-dollar solar system would have been useless.

$125 well spent IMO.

[SheBantam]

I think I am going to cheat a little here.  Dollar Tree had the LED touch lights for a $1.00 each...I bought 3 and am going to try them out for dry camping since I am such a woose and cannot figure out the instructions to hook up a battery to the Jayco.  Instructions WERE given in another thread.  So for the $40 I would spend changeing over my lights (If I could really do it...) I could buy a whole case of the touch lights...IF they workout...

[A2SuperCrew]

We use one TouchLight over our sink.  It's not nearly as bright as the LED's we have in our overheads, but just fine for bed-time tasks at the sink.  It's also nice to have a light we can turn on when minimal light is needed.

We LOVE the LED's in our overheads!  They're the 36-LED ones from superbrightleds.com.

[kwatson51]

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.

[austinado16]

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!

[kwatson51]

Well, returned yesterday from 5 days in a Federal campground in the mountains, dry camping.
All I can say about the new LEDs is "awesome"! Will never go back to regular bulbs. Had plenty of light and my battery lasted quite well with just my little solar panel to tweak the charge.
Too bad they don't make affordable LEDs for home use (yet).

[Tall Tom]

Just returned from 15 days of dry camping.  The new LEDS from super bright worked wonderfully as did the Pop-up Gizmo reflective blankets.  Took an extra Group 27 Battery to supplement my Group 24, did just great.  Expect I'll flip the axel this winter (bent my rear bumper dragging) to make the camper better for rough conditions.  

The really great thing was two weeks vacation, 5,000 miles traveled; total cost less than $900!!!!!  Only $47 in camping fees.  Does it get any better than this?:-()

[Recumbentman]

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:

[BirdMan]

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:

So maybe the title of this should be "Install Warning" vs "LED Warning". LOL!  So far I have not had any problems with the LED's.  The two inside LED's I have up with double sided tape and the one outside, connector type 1156, I use a piece of velcro to take it off when packing up and keep it in one of the inside drawers.  These LED's don't survive well if they get wet.

[AZCAMPPINAL]

I purchased two of the Coleman mini string lights (lantern) and attached them to my bow tops. Puts out quite a bit of light and runs on AA batteries. Camp trip in Dec. and Jan. I also have mini christmas light that I attach to my tent.