Light up your night with the double-dome pancake light from RecPro! Sometimes when you're out on the road you find yourself in locations where the brightest lights around are the stars above your RV, you need to have plenty of illumination to feel safe and secure. When you're in the deserts of Utah, or that great "in-between" in Montana, truly getting away from it all, you'll need bright lights to beat back some of that darkness. Whether for safety or convenience reasons, bright lighting is essential.
When it comes to your RV, what is adequate illumination? Are you sure your RV even has it when you roll off of the RV lot? Most new owners probably don't go shopping at night, nor do they test every bit of lighting in their rig before they buy. There's too much to go through before you buy. It's only when you get out there on the road, in those places where the darkness is complete, that you find out just how adequate your lighting package is in your RV. Do you want to wait for this to happen, or do you want to be prepared for those situations before you hit the road? At RecPro, we have the answers to all these questions and more.
Let's talk about lighting. Traditional bulbs have ruled the illumination landscape for decades. Once the light bulb escaped the rudimentary design of its initial invention, it didn't get far beyond the fundamental elements as the primary source of lighting available. While this light source lasted a long time because of its relative stability compared to its forebears, it was highly inefficient. Whether industrial or residential, the incandescent lighting had once major fault: How it worked.
Standard incandescent lightbulbs have been in the world since the late 1800s. Once they began utilizing a tungsten filament with a high melting point, the standard way to light was born. By running an electrical current through the contact wires into the filament, the electrons vibrate at a high rate which heats the filament, and the result is the illumination. While this provides stable light in most environments, it doesn't last too long. The filaments, over time, begin to break down with the intense heating and cooling that happens with repeated use. Eventually, the filaments snap. That's in a static environment.
Imagine you're traveling down the road along the coast of Oregon and the winter was particularly harsh on the state's infrastructure. Potholes and uneven wear on the road batter your rig around like a ball at a professional tennis tournament. All that bouncing and road rigor (i.e., the effects of wear and tear on from the road on your vehicle) plays havoc on traditional lighting. That much wear causes RV owners to replace bulbs in their rigs at a 2 to 1 ratio versus the bulbs in their brick-and-mortar homes.
So, what is the answer to the problem of the incandescent bulb in the RV? As a whole, the RV industry has turned toward the LED (light emitting diode or device.) The LED (which is a technology that has been around since the 1960s)
What's in a dome?
Your double dome interior RV LED light from RecPro has a just a few parts that make up its lightweight yet sturdy construction. Starting from the outside and moving inward, let's take a look at the dual pancake light as a whole:
The Housing - This unit's housing is comprised of an Arctic White ABS plastic. The housing is sturdy and made to resist cracking, crazing, chipping, and fading (in this case, yellowing.) The plastic has UV resistant properties as well that help extend the life of the housing. The color is a classic white. There's a two-fold purpose for the color. The first is that traditional white blends well with many colors so that you don't need to worry about color or tone matching. The second is that the white creates more light with "glow through" that lights up the body of the dome. This means you'll get more light with this double-dome light than a similar unit with a dark cover that occludes the light.
The lenses are the next sto…
