I planned to set up LED before. After playing with a few Luxeon 3 watt LEDs
I found they simply do not have the brightness without using a lot of them.
They will give a false perception of brightness with the light focussed to
point to a small spot. But for lighting a Westy interior you will not want
the light to be focussed. And you will need to connect a number of them
to be bright enough.

One fluorescent lamp uses less than 20 watts, probably around 15 watts of
power from the battery, including the overhead on the inverter. The only
drawback of using a fluorescent lamp is that you can't use a dimmer to adjust
the brightness.

David

--- Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

>  RE: White LED lighting
> "I feel your pain" comes to mind as a response.  I've had the same reaction
> to the LED lighting I'm using in my Westy, glaring blue/white light, sure
> wish it were down the spectrum a 1000 Kelvin or so.
> I'm not aware on any now that are any better but I've not been looking that
> hard.  I vaugely recall comments on one LED vendors site about 'softer
> white' light but didn't pay that much attention at the time.  I'm sure that
> the makers of LEDs are working the problem and we will see a better solution
> along the line but I'm not aware of anything right now.  Now, I hope someone
> jumps in and says that I'm full of it and points to a source of LEDs at
> about 5700 K.
>

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