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LED lights - whatsnewell - 08-24-2012

I have been converting my interior lighting over to LED's for a few years now. I have a lot of those square lights Newell used.....18 of them to be precise. I removed two of them from the engine bay when I was at Tom's home back in February. A couple of weeks ago I had some time on my hands, and a couple of feet left of the strip lighting, and converted those two to LED replacing the one under the microwave, and adding a second light in the pantry. They turned out great, but were too labor intensive. I found a seller on Ebay selling these 1156 bayonet style lights for $4.69 each. There are 120 SMD LED's on each bulb and are they ever bright!

I bought 10 initially to see if I would like them. I put 2 in the shower, 4 in the bathroom, one in the original pantry light, two in the through storage compartment, and one in the Norcold refer bay. Here are picture of the bulb, and the shower. I was able to take the picture of the bulb without a lense by fiddling with the camera angle so you could see the LED's lit up......as you can tell from the third picture they are quite bright.

I've still got 7 to go, and I like the light output. These came from China and made it here via China Post in less than 10 days.....not bad.

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RE: LED lights - Fulltiming - 08-24-2012

Looks like you found a winner Clarke.

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RE: LED lights - encantotom - 08-24-2012

good find clarke. you have done the right thing by experimenting. i bought 6 or 7 different led lights for the 02 till i found the ones that i liked that put out the right light.

just gotta be patient.

tom

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RE: LED lights - prairieschooner - 08-25-2012

Clarke, how about a link?

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RE: LED lights - whatsnewell - 08-25-2012

Steve....here you go:

1156 Bayonet Bulbs: http://www.ebay.com/itm/370626596025?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649#ht_4298wt_1103

Strip lights: http://www.ebay.com/itm/220750258465?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649#ht_4045wt_1029

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