Date:         Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:54:24 -0800
Reply-To:     John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Interior Light Improvements?
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On 1/23/06, David Wilhite <dlwilhite@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Anybody have some recent ingenious interior lighting options for their
> Vanagons using Neon or LED lighting.  Wanting to improve my 12V interior
> lighting and looking for ideas.
>

I was working on adapting a bunch of old military cockpit lights I had lying
around to use LEDs, but seeing the price they go for on eBay <*
http://tinyurl.com/8gh3v>*, I should probably just sell them and get some of
these:
<http://www.theledlight.com/light_bars.html>

I've installed LED under-counter lights built from these for clients before
and they're pretty nice. They do need some sort of diffuser though, 'cause
they're ugly and throw spotty light otherwise. I only wish they didn't cost
so much. I've been tempted to hand-assemble something similar from the big
$10 bag of cheapo superbright LEDs I have (ebay, straight from Hong Kong!)
just to see what kind of concentration of them is necessary, but I have no
surplus energy and even less free time...

--
John Bange
'90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"