Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Some 1156 LED Bulbs Are Just Too Dim


In June of last year, all the regular ole overhead bulbs in my vintage Airstream were replaced with modern-day, low-power, Light Emitting Diode light bulbs.

http://adventuresofacuriousfellow.blogspot.com/2010/06/let-there-be-led-light.html

Two months later, a few of the original bulbs were returned to their sockets because the vintage trailer’s dark cherry interior absorbed a lot of light.

http://adventuresofacuriousfellow.blogspot.com/2010/08/let-there-be-less-led-light.html

Yesterday, the remaining interior, LED bulbs were removed & replaced with the Overlander’s original incandescent bulbs. The only LED bulb in place now is mounted in the exterior scare light.

Had these LED bulbs been made with super-bright LEDs, I probably would have not had this problem.

Plans are to keep my eyes open for new products – the primary reason LED bulbs were considered was to save my OEM light fixtures’ lenses & switches.

3 comments:

  1. LEDs have a long way to go. I feel much like you do about them...

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  2. I'm glad to read this and happy with my decision to stay with the older style bulbs.

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  3. We bought a few...the only place that I've found that I like the LED's are to replace the lights in our control center (which were starting to burn the plastic)....I sooo wish they were better.

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