After having to dig through my truck attempting to fix the dome light and the power mirrors. I noticed the light socket was rather burned not melted but that darker burn mark from the heat of the old-school bulbs. I went out to superbrightleds.com and ordered me a new dome light blub and a pair of map light bulbs being winter is coming, daylight saving time will go away and it will be dark in the cab for morning and evening travel. It would be nice to have a bit more light and without burning up the sockets. 

 

https://www.superbrightleds.com/moreinfo/miniature-wedge-base/921-led-bulb-15-smd-led-tower-miniature-wedge-retrofit-car/910/11267/

 

https://www.superbrightleds.com/moreinfo/miniature-wedge-base/194-led-bulb-5-smd-led-tower-miniature-wedge-retrofit-car/206/6774/

 

Let's see how these work out. They should be here by about the 20th of the month. 

I installed SPL bulbs and fixed my map light switches and it makes some good light. 

Done something stupid last night. I made that one video and using the interior light switch on the dash. Made the video and got out of the truck and left the light on didn't even notice.  12 hours later the batteries are at 12.2 volts the next morning and the truck still started.  These little LED light draw so little they had zero impact on the starting the truck. I had to share this.

1 hour ago, Mopar1973Man said:

Done something stupid last night. I made that one video and using the interior light switch on the dash. Made the video and got out of the truck and left the light on didn't even notice.  12 hours later the batteries are at 12.2 volts the next morning and the truck still started.  These little LED light draw so little they had zero impact on the starting the truck. I had to share this.

I have a buddy in Bend, Or. that restored an old airstream trailer, put all LED lighting in it.  He also put a 12V LED TV in it.  They want to do alot of dry camping so he wanted to test what kind of time he could get out of the batteries before having to find shorepower or potentially if he wanted to get a small generator to keep with him..  So him and his wife decide they will basically live in the trailer on the side of the house unplugged and figure out battery life.  He decided after 2 weeks and no charge, that he still literally had 12 volts in the batteries.  So his focused changed to how could he get more than 2 weeks at a time away from work instead of how long can we live in the trailer without a charge.  I believe he told me he had radiant propane heat for that trailer, though I think if it were me even though more expensive I might try to find a diesel furnace that I could somehow run off of an auxilary tank in the back of the truck, or a small tank that I could refill with an auxilary tank in the back of the truck.  I have even seen airstream restorations with small wood burning stoves in them.  I have always told myself that if I were to build my own cabin in the woods or if I moved to a place like MoparMan that I would run the house like an RV/boat, and as much as I could, I would live in the 12V world, and LED makes that world that much better.  

24 volt world for me at home.

4 hours ago, Mopar1973Man said:

24 volt world for me at home.

can you get LED lighting easily in 24V?

14 minutes ago, portlandareae28 said:

can you get LED lighting easily in 24V?

Why... I've got 120 VAC in the house. Standard outlets and lamp sockets.

yes, but this requires an inverter to run, correct?  

45 minutes ago, portlandareae28 said:

yes, but this requires an inverter to run, correct?  

Yes sir. 4kw @ 120 VAC.

Batteries, cheap, inverters, not cheap ?  well except I have only played in the marine world where NOTHING IS CHEAP...

9 hours ago, portlandareae28 said:

Batteries, cheap, inverters, not cheap

 

Ummm... Can you say $4,700 dollars for 8 batteries? Batteries are EXTREMELY expensive! 

 

My trace inverter was less, 21-years ago.

1 hour ago, Mopar1973Man said:

 

Ummm... Can you say $4,700 dollars for 8 batteries? Batteries are EXTREMELY expensive! 

 

My trace inverter was less, 21-years ago.

How much inverter do you need to run that?

24 minutes ago, portlandareae28 said:

How much inverter do you need to run that?

 

4,000 Watt Trace Inverter @ 24 Volts delivers 120 VAC at 33.3 Amps. I've got a step up transformer that produces 220 for the well pump. Only a small handful I don't power. Oven, Drier, Stove, Heat pump. Everything else is powered by the inverter.

 

 

Edited February 22, 20196 yr by Mopar1973Man

@Dieselfuture

 

Yeah, I've got a very good understanding of batteries, inverters and lighting. Like today would be a poor example being its +13*F above zero. I've got the heat pump running, fire in the wood stove and space heater by the computers. 

 

Back to the truck and LED lights within. That really surprised me when the next morning I walk out to the garage and find the truck lit up. Going OH S__T and wondering if it would start up. 

 

I plan on changing out more blubs for LEDs but my next batch I want to change tail lights and front marker lights. I know I've got to wire in a resistor to add enough load to get the flasher to act right. I'm going to use a change out bulb in the front that shows as a white light with parking lights. Then turns amber with turn signals. The rear tail light just do a standard red led bulbs. Backup lights and the cargo lights I'm going to beef up and get the brightest LED's I can find for the clear white light.

13 minutes ago, Mopar1973Man said:

 

Back to the truck and LED lights within. That really surprised me when the next morning I walk out to the garage and find the truck lit up. Going OH S__T and wondering if it would start up. 

 

I plan on changing out more blubs for LEDs but my next batch I want to change tail lights and front marker lights

Keep us posted, I changed all the interior to led except dash and controls, been reading up on that. Some change to blue bulbs, some to regular, I noticed a lot had hot spots on dash that I don't care for. 

 

15 minutes ago, Mopar1973Man said:

I know I've got to wire in a resistor to add enough load to get the flasher to act right.

I got an electronic flasher when I did my projector conversion and used led turn signals on front. It should do both in would think. Still got to do tear tail lights, undecided on bulbs yet.

18 minutes ago, Dieselfuture said:

I got an electronic flasher when I did my projector conversion and used led turn signals on front.

 

Link please. This is the only thing that is stopping me.

I don't have a link, I just got one at part store. They're just called electronic flasher look like a regular relay.

Superbrite leds has a led flasher on their site. Sorry the link may be too hitech for me. 

Edited February 22, 20196 yr by Royal Squire

2 hours ago, Royal Squire said:

Superbrite leds has a led flasher on their site. Sorry the link may be too hitech for me. 

 

I looked up my truck on Superbright and this is what came up.

 

Advance Auto usually has them out on the floor. It’ll be labeled as an electronic flasher. 

Cool I'm going to look tomorrow down at Ontario... Thanks @trreed

 

LEDs ordered... Snail mail be awhile till they get here.

Edited February 23, 20196 yr by Mopar1973Man