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Go to bargman.com and look at their line of trailer lights. They have some quality LED assemblies that are significantly brighter and good looking to boot. When spring comes I am installing a set of the recessed ones in my 5th wheel. We recently returned from our last camping trip and met a fellow in a campground that had made the conversion on his older trailer. There is a remarkable difference in brightness and speed of operation.
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pcm1959
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I replaced the rear running/tail/stop lamp assembly on my fiver to led assemblies . There are super bright - even in direct sunlight. I have had many people comment on their visibility. I think they are well worth it. pcm
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webecreekin
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What about the electrical load of an LED as opposed to an incandescent bulb? Especially in the turn signal circuit?
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Likes to tow
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LED lights draw much less current than incandescent
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sirdrakejr
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Moved from 5th wheels to Gen'l RVing Issues.
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TankerDude
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webecreekin wrote:What about the electrical load of an LED as opposed to an incandescent bulb? Especially in the turn signal circuit?
While the LED's do react much faster than incandescent bulbs, that reaction time difference is miniscule. Still, as someone else mentioned, getting the stop lights on a little quicker can't hurt.
As Likes to tow said, LED's will draw MUCH less power.
An example: I changed out all the running lights and the stop/turn lights on my TT for LED units.
With the incandescent bulbs, I could plug a flasher into the pig tail between pins 6 & 7 (I think) and could get all the lights flashing. This is good when you get stuck on the shoulder of the road, and when someone is trying to find you in the campground after dark.
Now with the LED's installed, there's not enough current draw to activate that flasher.
I purchased my LED's here.
I really like them, and they are much more visible during the day.
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webecreekin
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TankerDude wrote:webecreekin wrote:What about the electrical load of an LED as opposed to an incandescent bulb? Especially in the turn signal circuit?
Now with the LED's installed, there's not enough current draw to activate that flasher.
That is my question. If there is not enough current draw to activate the flasher, what needs to be done to the turn signal circuit to activate the flasher. Or is there a different flasher that is used. I have heard people say that the LEDs can't be used in a standard turn signal circuit. They say that something else needs to be done over and above changing the bulbs. What is that something else?
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They make special flashers (usually the LED shop will have them) or you can add a resistor to the circuit (again, usually the LED shop stocks these, too). The special flashers trigger at a lower load and the resistors add the proper load to the circuit so that it will work with a standard flasher. Your choice.
You don't mention what kind of rig you are installing these in. If you are putting them in the tail lights of a TT, your TV, having standard incandescent bulbs, will have enough load, on their own, to make it a non-issue. If on the other hand, you have one of the plugs that you use on your TT's 7 pin plug to make the trailer flash when the TT is disconnected from your TV, you'll have to go one of the above routes to have the TT's tail lights flash properly.
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Check out Command electronics... If your taillights were originally made by them, they have a retrofit kit that is very easy to mount and quite a bit brighter than the stock #1141 bulbs...
Mine were originally from Command and the install couldn't have been easier...
http://www.commandelectronics.com/led-tail-lights.html#surfacemount
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