Best LED Dimmable Ceiling Lights

[Oonrahnjay]

Sean
Those housings look like exactly what I need. They even have the rubbed bronze bezel. So the question is what kind of bulbs do they take? Is it something very common that wouldn't be obsolete?   

      Dunno what kind of bulb that's in them but when I did my overhead interior lights about 5 years ago, I was told that a "puck light" with halogen bulbs was a good way to go.  I installed them and they put out a lot of light but they sucked watts and they were hot.  So I ordered "G4" (the bulbs have two straight bare wire connectors 4mm apart) LED's from a company called "RVLeds" (I think that's right).  Gary Throneberry ("Garhawk" on here) had some "cool blue" and some "warm white" - which have sort of a golden color - in his bus.  I have a lot of blue and blueish grey in my bus so I went with the blue.  Love them, love them, love them and the watt meter on my Outback inverter doesn't even register any wattage draw when they're switched on.
       I only have one problem -- anybody need 28 mini-halogen bulbs???   

[sledhead]

28 bulbs ! you did good . 1st coach used 35 bulbs 2nd coach took 42 bulbs but yes they use very little power and if they ever blow they can be replaced

like this

https://www.amazon.com/4-Pack-White-Non-dimmable-Equivalent-Incandescent/dp/B00UYHLXJG?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0 

dave

[Scott & Heather]

BRUCE

I am thinking of doing exactly what you did. The halogen puck housings are cheap and plentiful. I didn't know they made G4 LED bulbs that would fit inside the housing behind the glass. I just need to find dimmable versions of what Dave posted (I think I did find several versions on Amazon) in warm light and I'm set. Thank you so much!

[Oonrahnjay]

BRUCE

I am thinking of doing exactly what you did. The halogen puck housings are cheap and plentiful. I didn't know they made G4 LED bulbs that would fit inside the housing behind the glass. I just need to find dimmable versions of what Dave posted (I think I did find several versions on Amazon) in warm light and I'm set. Thank you so much!   

     I have to thank Gary.  BTW, the LED's I have are dimmable.  I'm pretty sure I bought them from RVLeds.com.

http://www.rvledbulb.com/ocart/index.php?route=product/category&path=60

[Oonrahnjay]

28 bulbs ! you did good . 1st coach used 35 bulbs 2nd coach took 42 bulbs  ...

    Wow, Dave, and you have only one ceiling! 

[Scott & Heather]

OK, so I am looking for the absolute cheapest halogen puck lights I can find and found one for $2.78 each. Is that a good price? I'll buy 30, install them and then swap the halogens out for the brightest dimmable warm G4 LED's I can find...

[Oonrahnjay]

OK, so I am looking for the absolute cheapest halogen puck lights I can find and found one for $2.78 each. Is that a good price? I'll buy 30, install them and then swap the halogens out for the brightest dimmable warm G4 LED's I can find...

     Scott, there's something odd about the LEDs shown in the link that I added above.  I'm pretty sure that mine were kinda shaped like a frying pan with the two G4 pins being the handle.  The ones in the photos are close but not exactly right.  The RVLed place were really helpful with my order, maybe you should give them a call.
BH 

[bandsaw]

Hello, I went to the Seattle Boat Show and there was a display from Imtra. They make high end LED lights for Yachts.  Your post asked for the best.  These are the nicest I have found.  Unfortunately, they have yacht pricing.

Thanks, Bandsaw

[Seangie]

OK, so I am looking for the absolute cheapest halogen puck lights I can find and found one for $2.78 each. Is that a good price? I'll buy 30, install them and then swap the halogens out for the brightest dimmable warm G4 LED's I can find...

Scott G4s will easily fit into the halogen sockets.  G4s have 2 wires.
Heres a video for reference -
https://youtu.be/qODrCtyiDWg

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[Oonrahnjay]

Scott G4s will easily fit into the halogen sockets.  G4s have 2 wires.  Heres a video for reference -
https://youtu.be/qODrCtyiDWg 

    Yes. I'm pretty sure that the bulbholder shown in the video is the one I'm using in my bus.  But the led units I've installed are the ones that are like the flat, round "pancake" style.  They are shown right center in the photo at the end.   

[sledhead]

the ones I used were easy to install because they are the same size as the original bulbs . I looked at a lot of bulbs but most are two big and you will have to rebuild the light to use them .

https://www.amazon.com/4-Pack-White-Non-dimmable-Equivalent-Incandescent/dp/B00UYHLXJG?ie=UTF8&

dave

[Oonrahnjay]

the ones I used were easy to install because they are the same size as the original bulbs .  ....

    Yeah.  I used these.  



  They're bigger than the original but they fit in my bulbholders which are very similar to the ones shown in Sean's video, above.  Simple - take out the halogen bulb, put in the LED; you'll see it's a bit larger than the original but after 3 years, they've worked fine.   The part number was HP-G409-C,  if you buy them in packs of 10, there's approx a 1$ discount each, that's HP-G409-C-10.  Like I said, these are bright "cool blue" color, if you want the "warm white" with the golden hue, check the part number for those.

(NOTE:  Actually the ones shown in the photo are 6-LED - the ones I got had 9 LED chips but they look very similar.)

[robertglines1]

the led fixtures I mentioned with spring install use the same pan like led . The lens screws off and you access them to replace. FWIW  I tried to post pic but said file was to large!   Bob

[lostagain]

I have replaced halogen bulbs with G4 LEDs in ceiling puck lights, but they don't last long. The first ones were from Super Bright LEDs. The second ones from a street vendor in Quartzsite. The sockets test at 12 V. I guess the bulbs were cheap... Am afraid to buy more, gets expensive...

JC

[Lin]

A little off topic, but thanks for starting this thread.  I was just replacing my compact fluorescents with LED bulbs.  The thread reminded me that I can now install dimmers too.