The Lamps, Lanterns and lighting thread

[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.

[Irving]

Walmart has the 64oz bottles of lamp oil for $5.XX. I seem to remember that same size bottle being around $9.00 back when this thread started, but I could be wrong. Thought I'd post in here since we've gained lots of new members since.

[jerrymrc]

Walmart has the 64oz bottles of lamp oil for $5.XX. I seem to remember that same size bottle being around $9.00 back when this thread started, but I could be wrong. Thought I'd post in here since we've gained lots of new members since.

Need to get more of that. I am still set on the Aladdin's for the winter and LED's for the summer. I have a friend in upper IL that lost power a month ago or so and used 3 Aladdin's for heat and light for 5 days while they were repairing the lines. He said he would run the wood stove during the day and shut it down and run the Aladdin's at night.

[Goodburbon]

Customizing by adding multicolored LEDs would help with the harshness of the white ones. The same way stage productions use multiple colored gels to balance the light on stage.

[Goodburbon]

Btw a n LED is the electric equivalent of a check valve , an ac-dc inverter kills them quick because its fluttering them open and shut at 60hz. You could put a big rectifier upstream and that should help.