Update on LED Camp Light
Submitted: Monday, Feb 05, 2007 at 22:13
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Member - Toytruck (SA)
I posted a question sometime back re LED 12VDC
Camp Lights and some were interested in my experiment so here it is.
I now have two 12VDC LED
Camp lights. One is a 600 mm light bar that throws a directional spread and works great for lighting a communal area. I intend to set up one more of these.
I have also purchased a 360 degree LED bulb that is intended for a masthead light on a yacht and it also throws quite a reasonable light. It is advertised as throwing an "Intense", light but I would not consider it intense. I am in the process of mounting the masthead light into a 240 volt pedestal lamp and should work a treat for standing on a
camp table or the like.
Now I am not suggesting that either of these lights throw enough light to perform open heart surgery by but I do not like my
camp area to light the night sky anyway, and besides.........the only person that will really require the light in the cooking area will be the
cook........I will be racked out in a chair somewhere drinking cold cordial:-)
So basically I am very happy, my
camp area is now totally LED 12VDC.
Toytruck
Reply By: Sand Man (SA) - Monday, Feb 05, 2007 at 22:35
Monday, Feb 05, 2007 at 22:35
Most things have their +'s & -'s.
I also have an LED "light bar". It's not as
bright as either the Versalite, or the Torpedo light, I also use.
The one big plus for the LED is for cooking.
LED's do not attract insects like other lights and therefore they are great around the cooking area.
I have the LED light at the cooking/food preparation end of the Camper annex and the versalite. or torpedo light at the other end.
So, for areas where you don't want the critters falling in your food, the LED is the answer, but for lighting up an area, you just cannot go past the versalite, or the torpedo. (Both about the same lumens)
Current drain is similar for all three lights.
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Follow Up By: Member - Phil G (SA) - Monday, Feb 05, 2007 at 22:43
Monday, Feb 05, 2007 at 22:43
Agree 100%. We carry spare LEDs purely for the insect issue, and fluoros for the rest of the time.
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Follow Up By: Member - Toytruck (SA) - Monday, Feb 05, 2007 at 22:44
Monday, Feb 05, 2007 at 22:44
Sand Man,
my main requirement was a 12VDC LED that would stand on its own. A number of sources told me I could not do it so, me being me had to prove that I could do it :-)
I know there are loads of good lights out there but I just had to be different :-0 I carnt help it.
Toytruck
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Follow Up By: Sand Man (SA) - Monday, Feb 05, 2007 at 22:50
Monday, Feb 05, 2007 at 22:50
No problem toytruck,
I can't help it either. That's why I have three of them.
All good though.
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