12 volt led lights off grid11/15/2023 ![]() ![]() Mad scramble to get out of the way as it rolls across the pillow is no longer necessary. The LED bulb falls out sometimes too but the Halogen bulb would fall out while I was adjusting the light and immediately burn any skin with which it came into contact. The connection is a little loose and sometimes the Over our bed we replaced a halogen bulb with a 12v led light. It takes more energy - a lot more - to make heat than light.Īs an additional bonus, in hot climates this can reduce the amount of air conditioning needed. LED technology produces light without the heat and that's where most of the energy savings are Our existing solar panels are keeping up just fine.Īnother upside of LED lighting is the cool running temperature. At Christmas IĮven have strings of LED Christmas lights inside and out, without any complaints from the We only switched 5 in the beginning (2008) because each light cost us $32.00 USD, now they're closer to $12 which is much easier to swallow. Just by switching the 5 most used bulbs in the cabin area we could tell that this was our answer. Right away we noticed a dramatic difference in the energy draw. if you decide to stick with marine batteries (get the kind labelled "deep cycle" even though they are not what we normally mean by deep cycle), you will be better off getting two six volt batteries and putting them in series rather than putting two 12V in parallel.įor batteries that handle deep discharge more gracefully, also look at golf cart batteries instead of marine.It'll take about 450 lumens to replace a 40 watt bulb.ħ50 - 1,000 lumens will replace a 60W bulb. The decision on whether you want to spend the money and have the additional hassle of lugging panels around should also factor in any positive advertising/merchandising you might get from having your booth "running" on renewable energy.īTW. If you cannot travel with an ginormous panel possibly a few 100w panels would work for you. That will be the equivalent of 50 amp-hours at 12V, which is not negligible. You will still have to lug your batteries back to the hotel room each night.īut a single ~300W solar panel along with an inexpensive (Morningstar is one brand) MPPT Charge Controller (CC) will give you as much as maybe 600 watt hours per day (because of less than optimal mounting, shading, etc.). Implicit in all of the responses above is that a solar panel will not contribute all, or even most, of the power your LED lighting will need. Thank you everyone, ahead of time for any help you can give me. Is there some kind of regulator that can fix this? Or am I, again decreasing the amount time the batteries will produce enough power. It is like the newer battery just sucks all of the power from the older one, rather than pulling equally. It's always the newer battery that stays charged. There is a strange thing going on when I connect the batteries in parallel, one of the batteries is always dead, and the other can still be fully charged. Nothing close to a fire hazard but that has got to be a bit of a loss in efficiency.Ģ. Is there such a thing as a 12 volt DC to 12 Volt AC converter? The lights work with AC as well as DC, My thought is that when I run all of these light the wires get a little warm. ![]() So a long story for a few questions, and any help you can give I would really appreciate it.ġ. I need to run more lights, brighter lights and I really do not want to lug more than 2 batteries all over the country. I am wondering if this was the right thing to do. I have removed the 110v transformers in each of the low voltage fixtures so I am running 12v with out the loss of using an inverter to raise the voltage and then drop it again to the 12v required by the LED's. the track lights directly to the batteries. ![]() My set up is simple, I connect the two batteries in parallel, I connect all of the lights via. And if anyone would know how to do this the correct and most efficient way, it would be people who know the ins and outs of battery usage.Ĭurrently for a show I take Two deep cell marine batteries, jumper cables, and 10 small led strip lights, 10- 12volt, 7w LED MR16 fixtures in regular track lights. Right now I have to take my batteries back to my hotel room each night recharge them. I am trying to find a way of getting a more time out of my batteries to light my display when I am at an art show. My wife and I sell our work at fine art fairs around the United States.įor years I have been fascinated with LED technology and solar, in the context of display and possibly sculpture itself. I little about myself, I am an artist, jeweler, and future sculptor. I just started reading a few of the posts on this forum and I am feeling really under educated, but that is why I am here. ![]()
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