Optronics 12V RV Wall Light w/ Light Shade - 5-1/2" Long x 2-1/2" Wide - Black Housing

Video Transcript for Optronics 12V RV Wall Light w/ Light Shade Feature Review

What's going on, everybody Adam here with etrailer. Today, we're going to be taking a look at the Optronics RV light. This light is going to be for our 12 volt DC system. So if you have a 24 volt system, this isn't going to be for you. This is going to draw about 0.97 amps, which is a little bit more, about double than what you see on some LED lights. So this is an incandescent bulb.

So once I take this acrylic lens off, you can see the aluminum housing, but then you see the incandescent bulb. I'm not a fan of these bulbs. One, they put off some heat. That's why we have aluminum here. Two, they don't really have as long of a life as LEDs.

And three, it really doesn't put off a whole lot of light compared to the amount of amps that it's drawing. That's just me. And these will break over time. But if they do and you want to go this route, it's bulb type 211, and we do have replacements here at etrailer. This is definitely going to be an interior light.

It's not really going to seal well with the water. So let me put this lens back. You just put it on one side and then squeeze it and it's good to go. We do have a switch, which I like that just because a lot of the lights in our trailer are hardwired. So they just turn on whenever I turn on the switch, but sometimes they just need a little bit of extra light, and other times I don't need all the light, I just need one to light up the interior.

So I definitely like having a mixture in my trailer, but that's just me. If you want my opinion about this light, I mean, it gets the job done. If you're really wanting something skinny and narrow like this, there is an LED option, which is what I would use just because it's smarter, in my opinion. You can put twice as many LED lights and you're going to get twice as much light, but just draw half as much amps. So that is something I would definitely recommend for you, whether it's in your trailer, your RV or your camper. One other thing that we haven't really gone over is how to install it. It didn't take a whole lot of time. It's just like any other type of light that we sell here at etrailer. So if you stick around, we're going to show you how we did it. First things first, let's figure out exactly where we want our light. I'm just going to replace the light that was here before. So if you have wires ran, great, we don't have to run wires. If you don't, you got to run wires. So we need a positive and a negative wire. So go ahead and run those. Luckily I didn't have to, someone already did it for me. So now what you want to do is prepare the wires. I like using these heat shrink butt connectors. We have some here at etrailer if you don't, so just add them to your cart, so you get all the stuff so you're ready to go whenever it all comes in. Always take your wires and twist them together. Just makes it a lot easier to put these in. And I usually kind of push and twist in the same direction and it's nice and secure. So now you want to crimp these down. You want to make sure these are super, super crimped down. You don't have to redo this, because these wires will eventually go in the wall. And if they come undone, we're going to lose them and we'll have to go fishing. It's not fun. I've done it before. So we'll do the same exact thing for our other wire. And one thing, I have already gone ahead and tested these wires to figure out what's which one is power and which one is ground. A lot of the times the colors will not match up, so always match by function and not by color. So be sure to test all that stuff. Once that's done, then we can go ahead and grab our actual light and just give it a good tug, make sure it's nice and secure before we move on. So positive and negative, go ahead and hook those up accordingly. Just like that. It's just the same deal as before. And before we really heat these up and put it all back, we want to make sure that it's going to light up. And it does, so we are good to go. Go ahead and flip this off. And now we can proceed with the install. So crimp these down. And what I'm going to do is use a heat gun, but not everybody has a heat gun. So what you can do is you can use maybe a hairdryer or something. It's not going to be as fast as this, but it'll get the job done. What I like about these is they're a lot better than the twist nuts, just because those tend to fall off and they just don't really make the best connection. But this is going to be water tight, and it's also going to hug around the wires. So if for some reason you don't crimp it down enough, you don't have to worry about it slipping out. So that's always a plus. And within a couple of seconds with this heat gun, we'll be ready to roll with the rest of the install. I'm going to go ahead and put our wires back in now that they're kind of cooled off and we can start to position it to see where exactly we want to mount it. As you can see, we've installed a lot of lights today, so we're going to try to utilize one of those holes. And what you want to do to take this lens off, just pop it off like that, kind of squeeze in on it. And you can see our little bulb and our two little mounts. So I want to align. I'm basically just going to place it right here. I'm going to put the switch up top. So the hardware is not included, so you will have to provide that yourself, but you can really use anything. I'm just using these self tappers just because I'm going into wall And you can use a power tool like me, it makes it a little bit easier, but just be careful. You just don't want to damage the housing, bend it, crack it, yada, yada, yada. Just a little bit of looseness so I can get it nice and even. Now we can do the last one, and we are almost done. Perfect. So now all we gotta do is put our lens back in just like that, and we're done. And that'll do it for a look at the Optronics RV Light..