gasgas
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Following my discovery of one of the reasons the last owner (of four previous owners in three years) got rid of my camper: This is the remains of the wardrobe light. This is how the camper was when I bought it. I must say that Lowe and Rhodes, the Stoke on Trent dealer I bought it from was very gracious and agreed to pay the £880 that AutoSleeper wanted to replace the panel. It's only inside the wardrobe so it can't be seen unless you lean over backwards at a back breaking angle and look upwards. I didn't think it was that essential, and not worth £880 just to have a new panel. So I decided of course to fit a new light, preferably a less flammable one.
Clearly something had to be done.
I got a new LED strip light from Temu for nuthingpencehalfpenny. It's called a 300mm LED long sense light. It has a PIR and comes on not when you open the wardrobe door, but when you reach inside. So if the door is not quite closed for some reason, the light will not come on.
At one end of the light there is a tiny switch - you can switch the whole thing off, have it on auto so it comes on when you reach inside for something, or have it on all the time. I made some small labels to remind me, but in reality it will just stay on auto. It runs off a USB socket. How I achieved that was to dismantle a cigarette lighter USB plug and wire the innards directly to the camper's wardrobe light power supply and then plug the light into the USB output. I checked that when the main control panel for the camper is 'off', there is no volts at the supply so it won't be draining any current when the camper is not in use.
Clearly something had to be done.
I got a new LED strip light from Temu for nuthingpencehalfpenny. It's called a 300mm LED long sense light. It has a PIR and comes on not when you open the wardrobe door, but when you reach inside. So if the door is not quite closed for some reason, the light will not come on.
At one end of the light there is a tiny switch - you can switch the whole thing off, have it on auto so it comes on when you reach inside for something, or have it on all the time. I made some small labels to remind me, but in reality it will just stay on auto. It runs off a USB socket. How I achieved that was to dismantle a cigarette lighter USB plug and wire the innards directly to the camper's wardrobe light power supply and then plug the light into the USB output. I checked that when the main control panel for the camper is 'off', there is no volts at the supply so it won't be draining any current when the camper is not in use.