I'm taking notes! I miss the dimmable leds our swift had, but we needed the space for the family in our palermo! Something like this has been on my to do list! I'd not thought of using tuya stuff. But that could tie in nicely with my other home assistant automation & motoring I've got on my van. I've got an esp32 taking the place of the inet box, as well as monitoring the solar & battery state
Hi Dan. Fully agree with your choice to go led. I have been upgrading older caravans to led for too many years to remember. The last one I did was a 1992 Buccaneer. I tend to use amber ones for awnings and other external areas needing light. The reason for the colour choice is mosquitoes, midges and I beleive horseflys are not attracted to amber light where I am sure we all know that they are with white light. I usualy upgrade road lights at the same time but don't just swap the bulbs over. I always solder tem to the holders and solder the wiiring. Now I know people are going to scream at me for soldering but I have never had any issues and it certainly beats the reliability issues associated with "normal" lighting. 73, Trevor
Clear, concise, and can’t wait for the next part to see how this looks. We have single colour warmish white LEDs in our Challenger 650, so I’ll be interested to see if this is something we might consider as an upgrade.
I take back my “are you flush mounting” comment from FB having watched this. Nice install Dan. Lighting is so so important in a van. Get it wrong and it’s not a nice place to be (ahem Elddis, with their cool white LEDs)
A quick note of caution whilst working near the central heating pipes. I've done some extensive rewiring of LED circuits and TV cables etc and whilst routing a cable I nudged one of the black rubber elbows which connect the central heating pipes together. The elbow couldn't have been fitted properly as I hardly touched it and it came away from the pipe and started emptying the entire contents of the heating fluid onto the floor. Luckily there was a floor vent nearby and I managed to guide most of the liquid straight onto the drive but it still left me with a lot of cleaning up to do and 3 bottles of Alde fluid to top it back up again.
A hairdryer to soften the glue often works well. Best at the same time as remove whatevers suck. Saves damaging the "wood". I leant the hard way removing sticky tabs and the paper wood effect😢
Hi, yes absolutely. All you need to find is a 12v source that the LED controller can use. The remote (control panel) uses batteries, so this is very doable no matter the caravan.
Fab video i have a older van and installed led strips many moons ago and after watching i am now going to have to do some upgrades
You've got more patience than me mate that's for sure. Looking forward to part two. Hope you are both well.❤
High quality production and informative content, just the sort of video we have come to love and expect from you Dan. Thank you.
I'm taking notes! I miss the dimmable leds our swift had, but we needed the space for the family in our palermo! Something like this has been on my to do list!
I'd not thought of using tuya stuff. But that could tie in nicely with my other home assistant automation & motoring I've got on my van. I've got an esp32 taking the place of the inet box, as well as monitoring the solar & battery state
Hi Dan. Fully agree with your choice to go led. I have been upgrading older caravans to led for too many years to remember. The last one I did was a 1992 Buccaneer. I tend to use amber ones for awnings and other external areas needing light. The reason for the colour choice is mosquitoes, midges and I beleive horseflys are not attracted to amber light where I am sure we all know that they are with white light.
I usualy upgrade road lights at the same time but don't just swap the bulbs over. I always solder tem to the holders and solder the wiiring. Now I know people are going to scream at me for soldering but I have never had any issues and it certainly beats the reliability issues associated with "normal" lighting.
73, Trevor
Clear, concise, and can’t wait for the next part to see how this looks.
We have single colour warmish white LEDs in our Challenger 650, so I’ll be interested to see if this is something we might consider as an upgrade.
100% - you’ll see that what I do in part 2 can be done in any caravan. 👍
I take back my “are you flush mounting” comment from FB having watched this. Nice install Dan. Lighting is so so important in a van. Get it wrong and it’s not a nice place to be (ahem Elddis, with their cool white LEDs)
As always a very thorough and clear guide👍
Thank you 🙏
A quick note of caution whilst working near the central heating pipes. I've done some extensive rewiring of LED circuits and TV cables etc and whilst routing a cable I nudged one of the black rubber elbows which connect the central heating pipes together. The elbow couldn't have been fitted properly as I hardly touched it and it came away from the pipe and started emptying the entire contents of the heating fluid onto the floor. Luckily there was a floor vent nearby and I managed to guide most of the liquid straight onto the drive but it still left me with a lot of cleaning up to do and 3 bottles of Alde fluid to top it back up again.
Eagerly waiting 👍
A hairdryer to soften the glue often works well. Best at the same time as remove whatevers suck. Saves damaging the "wood". I leant the hard way removing sticky tabs and the paper wood effect😢
Hi Dan Can you please put a link to the parts you bought for this job.thank you
Hi, yes - check the video description. It’s all listed there. 👍
Hi Dan I've got a bailey olympus 530/4 could I retrofit this system
Hi, yes absolutely. All you need to find is a 12v source that the LED controller can use. The remote (control panel) uses batteries, so this is very doable no matter the caravan.
Looking forwared to subsequent prts.
WD40 is great for removing sticky residue.
I will try this over the weekend. Thanks for the suggestion. 👍