RV Light fixtures are easy to replace. It is very EASY to modify your RV to reduce your lighting power consumption by UP to 75-85% over your current lighting.
It’s EASY to do. I swear. Even I can do it!
Background articles on RV Lighting
Don’t start this article without reading my starting article on all of the different types of RV lighting that exist – it’s quite amazing at all the lighting apps there are for an RV.
You don’t have to change an entire fixture, you can change the RV bulbs from incandescent to led by simply swapping out the bulbs with an LED made to fit in the fixture.
Changing an entire RV Fixture
I wanted to swap out an entire RV light fixture.
Why?
- I have never changed a fixture.
- the LED lights I was examining required a custom fixture.
- the current fixtures were too hot with standard 921 incandescent lights. This made sleeping in the summer uncomfortable.
Steps to change your Light Fixture
Typical Light Fixture you can purchase
This fixture has a custom fit to the LED light that is in it. Therefore, a straight LED replacement won’t make sense for this fixture. I wanted to try this different size LED light so I just ordered the fixture. Replacement RV lighting fixtures are about $10 or so.
Here I’m showing the same light fixture with the Bezel attached. Don’t get a fixture without the Bezel.
While hard to see in the picture above, there are 25 white LED’s in their light. This allows manufacturers to user CHEAPER individual LED’s instead of more expensive LED’s with higher light output.
How to think critically about how many LEDs it takes to make a bright light
A good benchmark for LED’s is that 10-15 single LEDs will replace a standard 921, you can see that the manufacturer doubled the amount of LED’s to get about the same light. In other words this means that the LED’s they used are less than 1/2 as bright as the industry standard led light (as of this writing). That might be a good trade-off – If you have control of the plastic FIXTURE – like this project does have.
If you pop off the plastic diffuser (the plastic thing that helps spread the light everywhere) you’ll see there are screws you can unscrew.
Go ahead and unscrew them!
Here the screws are unfastened.
My “wire nuts” – the things holding the fixture to the RV wires – did not come unscrewed – they were crimped.
So I simply clipped the wires on this OLD fixture (not the RV wires – the ones going into the fixture) and then stripped the insulation back about 1/2 inch.
I went ahead and wired in the new RV light fixture.
Now you can connect your new RV light fixture.
In case you are wondering … you fasten black wires to black wires and white to white.
Next, I simply screwed in the four screws which I “borrowed” from the old fixture. These don’t need to be long or strong as the fixture is very light weight and the RV wall/ceiling materials are not very thick.
Here is the final project.
The LED lights put out a much cleaner light. Since this is above the headboard on the bedroom, the area is NOTICEABLY cooler using the LED’s.
You can see the Incandescent light on the right.
My wife loves her new LED light fixture.
Conclusions on swapping your Light Fixtures
- Swapping light fixtures is easy.
- Anyone can do it with a screwdriver and wire stripper/wire cap
- Get the fixtures you want.
- the LED lights are awesome – we love them.
- The new fixture has a better button placement.
- What are you waiting for!!!
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. You will save energy, and have a more rugged light you can probably replace once and never again for the life of the vehicle.
is pretty easy to find. I’ve found that the porch lights use a yellow diffuser cover which is supposed to not attract bugs.
