LED interior lights

Post by **hercules** » 02 Mar 2008, 18:44

they not bad very good lighting not try them at night but they do they job and look cool ones i fished them of

Post by **matt-the-sign** » 06 Mar 2008, 10:37

Is there an LED version of the fluorescent strip light bulb that are fitted as standard in Westys? ..... although which uses less power, the fluorescents or LED's ?

Post by **PEET** » 06 Mar 2008, 20:11

LEDs fluros eat eat batteries.... If they exist i'll have one too!

Post by **Fox McIntyre** » 06 Mar 2008, 20:13

PEET wrote:LEDs fluros eat eat batteries.... If they exist i'll have one too!

Not as much as you'd think, I have a flourescant light in the head liner in the back of my van, left it on for about 5 hours accidentally (running off the starter battery!) and it cranked fine. I think I must have hit the switch for it when I got out. Its on the dash for some reason.. But LED's do look cooler. Why don't you just convert it? it wouldn't be too hard.. I can think of many ways to do it.

Post by **hercules** » 06 Mar 2008, 21:17

plz shair it with us all be nice to no if we wont to convert it im runing mine for the zig box lighting

Post by **Fox McIntyre** » 06 Mar 2008, 21:25

Just dawned on me you might be using 240V lighting. I can think of ways to convert 12V easy enough with no wiring changes, but 240V flouro to LED would be a chalenge.. I'll do a diag anyway, see what you think.

Post by **Fox McIntyre** » 06 Mar 2008, 21:34

diagram.
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Obviously the LED's would stand 90 to the bars, and the legs would not actually touch both bars. You could use 12V LEDs or get the bloke in Maplin to work out what resistor you need for X number of LED's each needing 3V and running off 12V, ect. I don't do the resistor bit, I let my mate in Maplin do it. Or get 12V LEDs.. Then just fit into the lamp unit discarding the old insides..

Post by **matt-the-sign** » 06 Mar 2008, 21:39

Thanks Fox, mine are 12v flu's.

I wondered though if there were an off the shelf replacment LED 'strip' that would just plug into the existing fitting in place of the flu without having to 'adapt' anything ?

Post by **hercules** » 06 Mar 2008, 21:46

mine are 12v and thanks i get it now

Post by **Fox McIntyre** » 06 Mar 2008, 21:46

Not that I know of because Floro's have converters and stuff that I don't understand.. possible higer A/C current? I know mines got some transformers and stuff in it. All I know is that I'm keeping my Floro tube's in the center of my roof cause its bloody useful. I'd have to put a lot of LED's in that bugger to light my van up that well

All well and said though, as soon as I can find an LED bulb supplier that I can trust I'll convert the standard interior lights to LED- thats the ones that I worry about cause I know my flourescant light dosn't drain the starter juice like all they bulbs do (I have a lot of interior lights.. 5 in total. not all 'standard'

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Post by **matt-the-sign** » 06 Mar 2008, 21:56

Thanks again Fox.

Mine are all flus so I think i'll leave them alone

Post by **Mocki** » 06 Mar 2008, 22:09

its really easy to change the source feed over so your cab lights run off your leisure battery instead of your starter battery, for later vans just remove fuse 3, run a pos feed from your leisure battery with a inline fuse at the leisure battery end and a male spade connector at the vehicle fuse box end and plug the new feed into the fusebox where you removed fuse three from, in the outgoing side.*
then everything that was running off fuse three(int lights, radio ect) will run from the leisure battery without needing loads of rewiring....

*check with a multimeter so you plug your new feed into the out going side of the fuse holder(Incomming side will already have 12v on it from buzzbar in fusebox.) iirc its the top slot you plug into, but its a while since i did one.

Post by **Fox McIntyre** » 06 Mar 2008, 22:29

Thats a really neat idea Mocki.. You could do that with the radio too thinking about it, I seem to remember that having a separate fuse. I don't have a LB at the moment but will do in the future, and that is a brilliant idea!
This forum is so useful

Post by **hercules** » 07 Mar 2008, 12:58

oh now the fun starts iv got my radio running on a relay. so when i stop the van,and trun it of the ralay truns it over to my leisure battery

Post by **Fox McIntyre** » 07 Mar 2008, 20:51

hercules wrote:oh now the fun starts iv got my radio running on a relay. so when i stop the van,and trun it of the ralay truns it over to my leisure battery

Also a neat idea, but, kindof redundant I imagine considering it might as well just come from the LB all the time, as the altenator should charge both..

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