Now that they are so inexpensively available just use them with a cheap, low wattage, inverter.
A string of 50 LED Christmas lights uses 4.8 watts according to the box (50 incandescents was 21 watts). So, with a cheap 500 watt peak (350watt continuous) inverter you can run 73 strings of lights. That's 3650 lights. I don't have that many on my house. G2 On Sat, 3 Jan 2015 18:03:35 -0600 "Bert Knupp" <[email protected]> wrote: > Volks, > > Just curious. Has anyone calculated how to operate a string of LED > Christmas lights on a 12-volt system? Who knows what voltage range > the LEDs operate on? I can see lots of interesting uses if it’s an > easy conversion. I know they have a miniscule current draw and great > light output per watt. > > I wish you a Happy New Year – ich wünsche euch ein glückliches Neues > Jahr – вам благодарю с новым годом – jullie wense ik een Gelukkig > Nieuw Jaar – une bonne nouvelle année à toi et à tous -- oe Hau’oli > Makahiki Hou -- to all the Aircoolers worldwide. (Sorry, Asad – my > Urdu’s a bit weak! 8^) ) > > VWs are everywhere. > > Bert in Nashville > Copbug Polizeikäfer on FB > > > -- Visit the VintagVW archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
