Engine Room LED Light Recommendations

[Play'N Hooky Too]

Well, thought I would modernize the 12V DC lighting system in the engine room with LEDs. I used a couple of sets of the low-profile, fully encapsulated, accent type lights in bright white. I placed them at strategic locations such as facing the fuse panel, battery switches, gage panel, Racor filters, etc.



On the pads where the old 12V overhead fixtures had been mounted, I strung four of the lights together to make brighter spot lights above the A/C units, intake strainers, and water pumps.


For a couple of months everything was fine. With just the DC lights on it was bright enough to see everything in the room. Then I started noticing that some were not as bright as they had been. Over the last several months they have become pretty much useless. The pictures make them look bright, but in actuality the wafers that are still working are a dull dim yellow. I can only guess that these lights were not meant to be placed in areas with high ambient temps like an engine room.

I'm looking for recommendations on what I should replace them with. Is the heat going to be a problem for any LED lights installed in the engine room?

Thanks
-Alan

 

[Boatsb]

I've said it many times. Heat kills electronics. Manufacturers put a lot of time and energy into creating lights for this application. I've sold many imtra lights and never had a failure but here im always told they are too expensive so you decide.

 

[jim rosenthal]

You could try using glass globe fixtures with LED G26 base bulbs in them. Worked for me.

 

[Jammin']

I put Aqua Signal London LED Engine Room Lights throughout my engine room and I love them. I was just thinking today I need to order one more.

https://www.defender.com/product.jsp?id=3967730

 

[Play'N Hooky Too]

Thanks for the replies fellas. I don't mind paying a little extra for something that actually works. As the saying goes "the bitterness of poor quality lingers long past the sweetness of a cheap price" or in this case, the money and time I wasted on something that is now totally useless.

I had the glass globe fixtures and had put in the "replacement" LED bulbs, but they hung down so far that they kept getting knocked off while I was doing maintenance (actually I usually could avoid them, but the guys I hired to work on the A/C units and do engine work kept knocking them off).