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Brad in WI

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Which type of light used on a trailer will draw less power to run. I built a trailer to pull behind my four wheeler and I want to add lights but I need as little draw as possible. I think LED has less draw but can someone confirm my thoughts. I will be putting on a total of 2 amber marking lights and 2 tail lights. I think the tail lights are the 3X6 oval type if that matters.
Brad
 
LED takes less power. I've got a 750kg (max weight) cargo trailer meant to be pulled by a car (normal lights) that does just fine. As long as your ATV is charging properly.

You got me thinking about LED now though.....

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=95974

think these are any good?

Dave
 
led's draw much less power as well as last longer and won't vibrate the bulb filiment apart like regular lites will
 
LEDs will draw a lot less and should work just fine behind the 4-wheeler. If you have ideas about putting the trailer behind a road vehicle from time to time, you may need to put a resistor or a conventional filament bulb somewhere in the three circuits (or maybe just the ground would work, not sure). On some cars and pickups with factory trailer wiring, there can be an issue, something to do with there being so little draw with LEDs that the relay to put juice to the circuits doesn't recognize anything there and won't won't energize it.
 
LED draw a lot less. I forget exactly how much, but I think it's something like 1/10 what incandescent will draw.
The othe sied is that they cost about 10 times as much to buy. You might pause to think about that if there's much chance of them getting smashed off...

Rod
 
About a year ago I bought some LED 'chicken' lights for a truck. They're about an inch wide and two inches long, and they draw .05 watts each. It takes twenty of them to draw one watt and they are so bright you don't want to look at them for long. Don't know how many LED's the 3X6 ovals have, but these chicken lights have four LED's each so each LED should conceivably draw .0125 Amp apiece. You could probably leave the trailer lights on all day and not run down the little battery in your four wheeler.Jim
 
After wrestling with seemingly constant taillight lamp failures (blown bulbs) on my flatbed I replaced the oval tail lamps and triple ID light bar with sealed LEDS. Much brighter, no burnouts, and they use almost no power.

The ONLY downside is the LEDs generate no heat. So when there's snow it often builds up and covers the taillights as buickanddeere points out. So for safety in snowy weather I left a pair of incandescent marker lights on the rear rear corners.
 
Thanks guys I thought they drew less power and I want the lights cause I may use the trailer on our local atv trails to assist in cleaning duties and maybe long overnight camping trips on the atv. they will be protected so no worry about breaking them off and the only thing the trailer will ever be hooked to is an ATV so no car/truck worry's.
 
We al know that much.

It's up to you to pick through what you want to take a risk on and what you want to spend some real $$$ on.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
I have had the LED's and incandescent lights. I wont waste my money on LED's again. I change them out twice as fast as the old ones and the warranty is worthless too. If one of the diodes goes out it is considered defective for DOT. As buick and deere said they wont melt the snow off either.
 
You can run those LED lights on a flashlight battery all day and all night for about 6 months does that answer your question. And they will last over 100 years.

Walt
 
Putting that trailer with the LED Taillights behind a Road worthy Vehicle will have No Effect at all, the Vehicle will view the Circuit as "Extras' and Work Great!.... AS long as the Vehicle in Question has all it's Taillights working properly. Know from Experience on this, Larry KF4LKU
 
heres another personal experience my peterbilt dump truck has led lites all over it, in 223,000 miles ive replaced 2 lites and that was due to rock hits, not burn out,theyve been shook, beaten, welded around, and about everything else that can be done to them and they keep going
 
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