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LED lighting - Interior lighting

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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. :doh: 12 hours later the batteries are at 12.2 volts the next morning and the truck still started. :thumb1: These little LED light draw so little they had zero impact on the starting the truck. I had to share this.

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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. :doh: 12 hours later the batteries are at 12.2 volts the next morning and the truck still started. :thumb1: 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.  

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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.

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@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.

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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.

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