Indirect lighting

[Duane King]

Is anybody out there using LED rope light behind a sofit for indirect lighting in a tear? The LED rope light from sailorsams.com draws .84 watts/0.07 amps per foot. Is this a lot? I can't use it if it will just suck my battery dead. But if the light is pleasant and not to much of an energy drain, I might be tempted.

Waddayathink?

[madjack]

Duane, 10' would draw .7A...with a 75AH battery(and assuming 100% charge) and nothing else drawing from it, you could run those lights for 50 hours of continuous, non stop use before you reached 50%(normally considered max) of usable battery life...I think they would be just fine.........
madjack

[48Rob]

Hi Duane,

I used a 24" section of LED strip lighting hidden behind a hatch rib to light my galley.

Works well, and draws very little power.
I can't find the numbers right now, but I did Amp draw tests on all the different lights I'd installed, and the LED. strip drew a very minor amount.

I chose a combination of white and yellow LED's.
The yellow is supposed to offset the harshness of the white...it does help a little, but at the expense of overall brightness of the strip.
I lost a third or so of the light an all white strip would have produced.

The light is okay for the galley, but would have been very harsh for the cabin area.

Rob

[Duane King]

Was the rope light that you used a 12 volt LED rope light or a 110volt incandescent rope light?

[48Rob]

It was a strip light...and is 12 volt.

Rob

[Duane King]

I've never heard the term "Strip lighting". Is that like a rope light of a fixed length or is it something else?