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2011-11-18T20:33:00.001-08:00

This blog is for sharing concepts aboutLEDs as they pertain to the RV industry. I hope to share strategies foroutfitting your RV/camper and why you may or may not want to.

One of the main reasons (and the most popular reason) why people want to switchto LEDs in their RV/camper is power. In a completely out-fitted LED RV the powerconsumption can be as little as 12% that of incandescent bulbs. That is not tosay your unit will last 5 days on one battery charge, when you normally to have tocharge your unit every day, but it could. That would largely be determined bythe power being used by other things in your unit like appliances. And tided tothe idea of saving power is saving money. You can save lots of money if you dry campor if you go to camp sites that do not have hook-ups. If you go to a camp ground that has hook-ups and no hook-ups, you could save as much as 40% to 80%.

The next most popular reason why campers switch to LEDs is safety. If designedright, LEDs can put out more light on the highway at night, and allow greatervisibility to other travelers. Also, LEDs offer a greater safety factor becauseone fixture is made up with many LEDs; where as regular incandescent bulbs havea single point of light. If there is a failure with an incandescent bulb, youhave no light. It is always pretty hard to change a bulb at night when you needthat light the most. If you have a failure with an LED light it can be as smallas 1/40th loss of light.

The third most popular reason to go to LED lights is heat. LED lights producefar less heat and can be quite comforting on those hot summer days. They canmake a very big difference if your camp site does not have shade on all or justpart of the day. Some of the most common lights in campers/RVs are the 1141 and1156 bulbs. They can degrade their light lens and even melt the lens in somecases. Then there is the biggest offender, that 10 watt halogen. If you havethat bulb in a reading light you just about need to put a sweat suit on beforesitting down with a relaxing book. Some people who don't care about LEDs forany other reason like the C12WWSpot for those hot halogen reading lights.
I plan to cover more about these ideas in other posts but just wanted to getthe main ideas behind the popularity of LED lights in the RV/camping industry.

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