Date:         Tue, 29 Jul 2014 00:14:25 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: What's the correct bulb needed in this  '82 Westfalia?
Comments: To: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@q.com>
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At 11:48 PM 7/28/2014, Karl Wolz wrote:
>David,
>
>Nope. Thought he had the same bulbs as my '85. Sure do like those
>LEDs in mine.

Yeah, my '84 was delivered in Germany and it had the same fixture he
does.  The first (and every subsequent) time I saw one of those
three-bulb fixtures I was shocked, because this one puts out a
bright-white hard-edged light that's pretty amazing.  It even looks
nice when it's not lit, like the cut glass fairy was practicing and
just filled the whole thing with prisms.  And uses a lamp that costs
ten bucks and back in '90 wasn't so easy to find on line.  We
actually at the time (especially after the time the diffuser warped
from overheat) used a 7-watt CFL reflector-flood in a clip-on
gooseneck fixture.  Up high  on the crossbar it would light the whole
cabin, and you could move it wherever you needed for lots of light
and less than an amp draw by the inverter.

My '89 has a table and a fluorescent light and it lights up the table
area very well and the whole interior not bad.  But I hear what you
say about the LEDs.

d