Interior lighting - how many is enough? Your set-ups?

[Oh Danny Boy]

Hi,

Just in the process of purchasing the interior lighting for my van - and am considering how many lights i will be needing? I am going down the warm white LED route.

I have purchased a couple of strips for above the length of the Sink/Cooker cabinets, and plan to get 2 or 3 spots beneath the overhead locker/above the rear seat. How does that sound? I don't want to make either mistake of not having enough, or too having too many.

What do you guys have installed?

Thanks for your input, which is as always much appreciated.

Have a good weekend!

[ghost123uk]

You can never have too many (As long as they are individually switched )

I like having lots of different lighting options (colours and positioning) available to vary the "mood" inside the van (and in the house too).

[nevill3]

I decided to instal LED downlighters to replace the old strip lights in my camper, I have gone for eight single LED "decklights" and six multi LED downlighters half of which are wired to the original 240v mains electric via their own transformer and the other half wired to the 12v Lighting circuit of the Zig unit. I have left the original swivel spot lights but replaced the old incandescent bulbs for LED replacements. The only other light I am going to add is one at the rear of the van so it is easier to read in bed when your head is at the tailgate end.

This is with all the LED lights on when the camper was in my garage




This is a close up of the lights the left is run from the leisure battery, the middle and right one are from mains hook up.



The single LED decklights give a nice level of illumination just right for chilling with a beer and chatting.

I sourced my lights from a local electrical contractor who used to do shop and pub refurbishments.

[Oh Danny Boy]

This:

"The single LED decklights give a nice level of illumination just right for chilling with a beer and chatting."


Thanks for the post @nevil3. Since i haven't ever attended any shows, it's really helpful to see other people's set ups to give me an idea. A picture says a thousand words and all that jazz..

@ghost123uk - yeah, certainly appreciate that buddy. thanks.

[knine]

anyone tell where is the best place to get LED 12v lights from....please

[fooster]

I got my warm white LEDs from eBay 5m roll of water resistant for about £14 IIRC. There's loads on there. I went for the lower wattage ones I forget what the number was 3020 or something.

I put strips in all my cupboards wired up to some NC magnetic reed switches so they go on when you open the cupboard door. Good for a few brownie points! It took me ages to find the NC reeds switches- nearly all of the ones available are normally open. Finally found them from RS Components.

I adds a strip just above and behind the front seats which are wired into a 3way switch- these come in when the sliding door opens, or off or just in when I want.

[billybigspud]

These are on both sides but I wanted it bright but are independantly switched