Interior LEDs

[Love MACs]

Anyone know of some very basic instructions, hopefully with some pics for wiring LEDs to our interior lights I have really jury rigged them but would like to put them in correctly

Allan

[Trouts Dream]

I'v changed over all interior lights to LED.

What type do you have?

[March]

It depends what kind of casings/sockets for the lights you have. You might want to test the + and the 1, LED lights are diodes and allow the current to flow only one way. Other than that, it should be pretty straightforward.

[bradhill]

My '96 has two standard ceiling fixtures with 1141 bulbs. These are single contact bayonet bulbs.
I found some 1156 (same base) LED replacement bulbs on eBay for a couple of bucks each. They have 36 LED bulbs and are very bright.
Just as easy to replace as you car's taillight.

As March has noted in a previous post, verify polarity. You may need to unscrew the fixture from the liner and reverse the wiring. Incadescent lights do not care, LED's are polarity sensitive.

The Westmarine catalog lists the following for power consumption on these 12 volt bulbs.

BULB 1141.....AMPS 1.4..... WATTS 18.....CANDLEPOWER 21
BULB 1156.....AMPS 2.10.....WATTS 26.9.....CANDLEPOWER 32


I believe that the statistic on the 36 LED light was 1.56 watts. Although they are very bright, I have no idea what the candlepower is.

Brad Hill

[TLB]

I have been very happy with bebielectronics.com. They are in fiji and inexpensive but very good quality...the engineering talk on the sight is far beyond my understanding. I bought from them..cheap shipping...great customer service (email when shipped and followup) and a lot less than West Marine!! They have good info on their sight about power consumption, engineering and installations. Tim

[Love MACs]

I should have said that these SMD LEDs, bought from China, thru ebay come with three different type sockets, one socket is like the regular male end of light bulbs in the interior fixture but it is much smaller, one is a elongated bulbous type socket (like a torpedo) and the last is a mini two forked plug in. I have the first type electrical taped into the current socket (that is much too small for) and it works but simple trailering, I believe will cause it to work loose. What I was wondering is do they or anyone make a LED that will plug directly into our current sockets or how to wire the others into the socket?

Now I am sure that is clear as mud


Allan

[Russ]

I've ordered stuff from these guys before.

They make standard fixture replacement bulbs.

They also sell adapters that might help with your existing bulbs.

--Russ

[Love MACs]

Hey I appreciate all the answers and suggestions and especially the quick responses I always get here They say if you need help, ask a friend and you guys have always came through for me. Brad got me settled on this issue, with pics and all. Just ordered my new LED bulbs from ebay and will just hold on to my SMD Leds for...who knows

Allan

[Duane Dunn, Allegro]

I used the PCB series in all my fixtures (4) from http://www.superbrightleds.com .

Get part number 1156-PCB-WWHP9
http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-bin/ ... cblamp.htm


The middle one in the picture above


They just plug right into our fixtures like a replacement bulb, no wiring required.
I put a layer of foam between the bulb socket and the back of the PCB board and just cable tied them in place.

Their beam angle is great putting out all around light instead of just straight down light as some LED's arrays do.
Be sure to get the warm white color for that pleasing look of an incandescent.
The cool white is very harsh and unattractive. My wife hated the straight down cool white replacement fixture we tried.
With these she can't tell the difference from the standard bulbs.

On my very sensitive amp hour meter they register just under 0.10 amps of load each. I can have them all on and they use half the power a single stock incandescent 10w bulb did.

[Shane]

I installed the same ones that Duane did and am completely satisfied with them. Just for safety sake, I insulated the back of the PCB w/a layer of electrical tape before zap strapping them into place.

I picked up 3 red LED fixtures this weekend (not installed yet) to protect nightvision for middle of the night treks topside. Will try to remember to post pics when done.

Regards,
Shane

I used the PCB series in all my fixtures (4) from http://www.superbrightleds.com .

Get part number 1156-PCB-WWHP9
http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-bin/ ... cblamp.htm

[Rick Westlake]

I used the PCB series in all my fixtures (4) from http://www.superbrightleds.com .

Ditto here! The "warm white" is almost the same color-temperature as a regular incandescent light bulb. And they use next to no current. I used double-stick foam tape to put mine into the old fixtures.

I just wish those guys put out a mini-bayonet lamp that would put the light where we need it in those old AquaSignal Series 20 nav lights on our older Mac X's.

[Boblee]

Going to try these ones 91 LED WHITE DOME LAMP WITH ON/OFF/ON SWITCH BL-105W/12 but in WW from superbright
as a replacement for the existing lights which I had converted to led but they still aren't bright enough for reading unless directly under them.
The above still only use the equivelent of 2.4w with 91 led's.

[Ivan Awfulitch]

I installed the Sensibulbs from Sailor's Solution in our fixtures. You use the bayonet base and they plug in just like the old incandescent bulbs. We also put the dimmers on each, makes it nice when you don't want a lot of light to attract the bugs, yet you can turn them up and they're as bright as the old bulbs they replaced. The base looks like this and the LED plugs in:



http://sailorssolutions.com/index.asp?p ... y=Lighting

[Boblee]

They look pretty good Ivan