How about http://tinyurl.com/2wa7boz  ....

Bryan

> >
> > Richard Koerner wrote:
> >
> >> Went camping recently, had shore A/C power at the campground, and ran
> >> a string of white Christmas lights outside the vanagon laid on the
> >> ground....just for the fun of it.... but provides just the right
> >> amount of light for illuminating the area. Girlfriend likes it, too;
> >> now, she wants them all the time, even when out in the middle of
> >> nowhere.
> >>
> >> I have an aux battery per the GoWesty kit. So one option is to run
> >> the Christmas lights off a 120 VAC inverter.....easy smeasy I guess
> >> to do that. The other option is to "rewire" the string of lights so
> >> as to directly operate off 12 VDC; my string has 50 bulbs so normally
> >> 120V divided by 50 is 2.4 volts per lightbulb....thus need to "group"
> >> about 6 or 7 bulbs in series across the 12 volts of the auxillary
> >> battery. Yes, much more hassle than simply using the inverter, but
> >> probably more electrically efficient, and I could "derate" the bulbs
> >> by putting them in groups of 8 or 9 thus with slightly dimmer light.
> >>
> >> Anyway, I suppose a third option is to buy 12VDC Christmas lights
> >> from someplace....they must be available. But that takes all the
> >> challenge out of it!
> >>
> >> Just wondering if the List has any clever ideas on this; basically it
> >> provides low-cost, pleasant, lighting around the campsite in the
> >> immediate vicinity of the slider door area. So would candles and a
> >> kerosene lantern I guess.....but candles blow out, and don't want to
> >> carry 2 or 3 kerosene lanterns, too bulky.
> >>
> >> Rich 85 Vanagon San Diego
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