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You Can Have Too Much
Lighting In Your RV -- Many
RV rigs have too much lighting, and it takes
too much power. LEDs offer a means for reducing
both power consumption and excessive lighting.
An example with sixteen fluorescent fixtures
proves how easy it can be.
Use
ZL1 To Eliminate Those Little Hungry
NightLights -- The electrical power used by those little
footlights you leave on during the night adds
up. You can see over a 1,000% improvement in
operating costs with LEDs, and the comparative
cost of replacement does not
compute.
How
Do LED Lights Work --
LEDs are the light source for
the future of home and RV lighting. To chose
the best LEDs, it helps to understand how light
works so you can chose the LED fixture to best
fit your needs.
Beware
the LED Killers - Over-Heating &
Over-Voltage -- People using RV LEDs must choose the
highest quality products that provide adequate
voltage protection and thermal protection for
the LEDs. Otherwise, they will see a
significant decrease in product lifetime and
efficient use of electrical
power.
3
Reasons to Use LEDs in Your Tent
Trailer -- Power, heat, and control are 3 reasons for
converting to LEDs in your tent trailer. A tent
trailer without LED lighting can be a power hog
at night. LEDs let you save power, eliminate
heat, and give you control. Be a Prudent RVer
and recommend that everyone use RV LED lighting
in their tent trailer.
LEDs Make the Greatest
RV Patio Lights --
Many RVers never get the full
benefit from their patio lights because they
are too dim. Replacing the incandescents and
fluorescents in patio fixtures with RV LEDs
makes the patio a useful and pleasant area, and
the LEDs are a signal to the bugs to avoid the
place. LEDs lose only 15% of the power to heat,
the remaining 85% creates useful
light.
LEDs
Don't Make Good Space
Heaters -- Some RVers turn on their lighting to heat
their coach. Others turn on the A/C to cool
their coach when the wife turns on the lights.
Between 75% and 85% of the electrical power
used by incandescent or halogen bulbs becomes
the heat needed to create their light, and that
heat radiates out from the bulbs. Fluorescents
are only a little better at 50%. LEDs lose only
15% of the power to heat, making them poor
space heaters.
Use
LEDs to Live Off-grid on Solar
Power -- People living off-grid use LEDs with their
solar. Installed RV lighting uses over half of
the total load on the batteries. With solar,
excessive usage kills batteries. My online
business needs 25Ahr to power the electronics.
Before LEDs, 1600 lumens of lighting required
48Ahrs, for 73Ahr/day. 240w of solar provides
only 45Ahr/day. LED lighting required only
11Ahr for 1600 lumens -- solar only has to
replace 36Ahr. I use LEDs to stay
off-grid.
LEDs
Are The 21st Century
Lighting -- Four reasons why LEDs will win out:
efficient power, less heat, longer life, and it
is the law.
Opportunities
for LEDs in an RV --
An RV is a natural environment
for LEDs. It operates on 12-volt direct
current. It has simple wiring and lighting, and
it is small.
21st Century LEDs - What Are
They? -- What is the nature of this new light
source?
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