E23 Overhead LED settings

[Dkingpt]

The three centerline overhead LEDs in our E23 are controlled by a light switch near the door. They can be individually dimmed twice or turned off/blue, but they always revert to coming on in the brightest setting when the wall switch is used.
Does anyone know if that can be modified - either so individual lights can remember their last setting, or change the level of all the lights when they turn on?
Thanks in advance.

 

[NEWYORKHILLBILLY]

not sure what they're using now. Do you have a make and model # of the lights?

 

[CE Vogel]

I have reading lights in my bedroom that operate similar to your overhead lights, except the switch is on the lights themselves. They always come on full brightness, then can be dimmed or switched to a blue light.
I suspect my lights have the same control circuit as your lights. I have not found a way to have them switch on dim. It is annoying to have the light switch on full brightness when making a middle of the night trip to the facilities.

 

[snowswamp]

I’ve been looking for 12V dimmable lights with a dial, not the button settings for this lack of control reason. They seem to be unicorns. I did see a few options on Amazon of dimmer control dials that need to be wired in.

Linkstyle 12V Dimmer Switch

 

[Dkingpt]

On our last trailer I installed a wireless in-line switch that added on/off and dimming functions to overhead LED lights that were hard to reach. I just pulled down the light and spliced it into the hot lead. The light had no dimming function before that. The remote (buttons, no dial) that it came with wasn't that reliable, but it was way better than having to move the table to access the light switch.

I'm pretty much resigned to dealing with what I have, which, to be honest, is not bad. My old trailer had a ridiculously high ceiling (I''m 5'4"). These lights I can reach. One option is to leave the wall switch on and just switch/dim each of the lights individually to suit. We have a little nightlight we can use to move around safely.

 

[John in Santa Cruz]

whoever designs the dimmers for a lot of LED stuff has no concept that brightness is a logarithmic function, and does linear steps. so 0-10% is a big step, and 90-100% is a tiny step. which is awful.

 

[John in Santa Cruz]

i have an older Escape, and it just had the LED ceiling lamps that had two settings, 1 side or both sides. these all used this simple LED board, with like 4-5 parallel strings of 4 or so LEDs, each string had a resistor. I dimmed a bunch of them by cutting the resistors off the board. somewhere on this forum there's a long thread about my experiments with differnet bulbs in the captains lights, most of mine are now warmer white and not as bright.

oh, and I found some alternative 'wedge' mount LED arrays that were warmer white.

I played around with a whole pile of different lights in the "Captains" corner lights, which I really dig.

so those little round LEDs I replaced about half the original ceiling lights with, they have 8 parallel strings of a few LEDs each. This is the back of one that I whacked off 4 of the 8 circuits, so it was 1/2 brightness.