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LED LIGHTS TO REPLACW EXISTING FLURO`S


Hi Has anyone who owns a coromal van replaced the existing 4 pin fluros oval shaped lens with led`s and if so how and what type of led ,any info will be good.as I find the existing lights in kitchen area not really bright enough.thanks mike g



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Hey.

I'm lazyyyyyyyyyyyy. Plus.

'99 535 full height.
ALL 12x lighting inside.

All I did. was get some 1 mtr strips of white. LED.
Self adhesive.

Lay then out UNDER the side and kitchen end wall cupboards.
Then run wiring from them to reading lights at head end of each bed.
Same under kitchen cupboards above sink, stove. work area.

Wiring through bottom of cupboards. into current lighting wires.
Then one 3 mtr length along each side of roof. and into dome lights

I'm not too bothered about a coupla wires visible.
Better things on my mind.
White ceiling. white tape if fussy.

Outside. The roll out,
I rolled out. and ran a length of same along attachment point of awning to roof rail.
So it rolled up with Awning out of sight.
wiring in small hole in wall down to ext light and sika the hole in wall.

Lights van up like a shopping mall now. and uses virtually miliamps.

Cost. Around $45 with packet of self adh clips.

The white light makes it a daylight, not a frowning van now. inside.
I hate yellow lighting.

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I am not an Electrician, and I am assuming that we are talking about a 12 volt system

I looked at changing, (not the oval, but the long skinny fluros type tubes) for someone else

I found that you could buy LED type tubes, (which are expensive, compared to the fluro tube), but that you had to by-pass the ballast, to allow the LED tube to work, in the original fluro light fitting

It appears that the power goes through a starter/ballast to make a fluro work, LED will not work while there is a starter/ballest in the system

There are instructions how to do this on the internet

Another idea would be to remove the fluro light fitting completely, and fit a LED light fitting of slightly larger footprint, to cover the old outline of the fluro light

Hope that this info is useful to you



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I have just done what Tony suggested, I took out the four old fluro lights and had a mate who is a sparkie wire in 4 new led lights, i bought on the internet for about 13bucks each, priced them at a caravan show and they were 4 times that price.  They are brighter than the old fluro lights.

Cheers,

Bob



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mike g g wrote:

Hi Has anyone who owns a coromal van replaced the existing 4 pin fluros oval shaped lens with led`s and if so how and what type of led ,any info will be good.as I find the existing lights in kitchen area not really bright enough.thanks mike g


G'day Mike, I have a 95 Coromal Capri 625  Had the same problem as you, 

What I did with the fluros was, rip the tube out and buy a strip of L.E.D. lights with sticky backs off Evil Bay, I filled the centre of the casing with three rows of led's and they made a heap of difference to the light output, used the existing 12v wiring , no problems,

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best of luck  K.J.  biggrin



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