The Lamps, Lanterns and lighting thread

[Irving]

Someone on another board just posted that they converted their whole RV to LED and the lighting as terrible because it was too white. Apparently LEDs might not be the best with direct lighting. It personally probably wouldn't bug me, but it's something to think about if it might bug you, or the wife. So consider hiding the LEDs behind something to make it indirect lighting. Just a heads up.

[theGinsue]

I hadn't considered that. Thanks for the heads up.

[jerrymrc]

Someone on another board just posted that they converted their whole RV to LED and the lighting as terrible because it was too white. Apparently LEDs might not be the best with direct lighting. It personally probably wouldn't bug me, but it's something to think about if it might bug you, or the wife. So consider hiding the LEDs behind something to make it indirect lighting. Just a heads up.

yep. The commercial bulbs I bought almost hurt. The LED's I bought were just about right. I also added a second diffuser even though these bulbs had a 40 degree spread. They are also 10MM bulbs. I got a hold of some scrap diamond diffuser panels that had chipped edges and it worked wonders.

Have to show the desk lamp I built out of a socket and a piece of wire.

They also now sell LED's that have the yellow tint of incandescents.

[jerrymrc]

And one more thing about LED's and the camper. Unless you have a very good inverter the standard one in most campers will kill the LED's even the commercial ones.

Running on battery power is fine but the 1/2 wave inverter will take them out as I found out.

I now keep my LED's for dry camping only until I can mod the inverter.