Installed the Heng's Chandeliers Today

[Steppy]

Now that I got my leaky left roof vent re-installed, I replaced both screens and installed the Heng's warm white chandeliers. The vents aren't blocked by the lights and allow more air in. The Heng's are awesome in that until they are switched on, you'd never know they are lights at all and just look like part of the trim. They are bright and I've ordered remote control dimmers for them.

 

[Shane826]

Looks good! Did you get the vent parts from Meyers?

 

[Steppy]

Trailer Parts Superstore

 

[Larryjb-HILO]

How would you rate the glare of the warm whites? I do find the glare from many LED point sources annoying, and this is the one thing holding me back from purchasing one of them.

 

[Craigrrr]

Looks great!

 

[Steppy]

Glare From Heng's Chandelier

How would you rate the glare of the warm whites? I do find the glare from many LED point sources annoying, and this is the one thing holding me back from purchasing one of them.

Larry,
I turned them on at night and IMO they are not glaring, but with both on, it's nice and bright One alone gives off plenty of light. I ran across a remote control RF dimmer that I'm going to install if Amazon will ever send me what I ordered https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B012YT93S4/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Just found out these come in a 2 pack https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B012YT8Z5Q/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Reading up on them, it appears that both receivers are on the same frequency, so you can control both lights (if you have 2 Heng's chandeliers) with one controller.

 

[Larryjb-HILO]

Thanks Steppy,

At first I wasn't wild about the remote control until I thought of securing them to the wall with velcro and using them like a regular light switch. I could have one by the door and one by my dinette.

I believe I'm sold.

 

[Steppy]

Good idea. I'll probably store mine in the front cabinets above the sofa for now

 

[Kidkraz]

I’ve been thinking about doing this mod with replacing my vent lights; and now to see you found remotes makes it even a better option for me. I’d put my remote by the front door, so at night when I open the door I can turn the light on to see.

 

[Sopper]

In one of your vent housings do you have the switch for the reading lights of the front shell? If so, how did you adjust your install to replace that switch?

 

[Shane826]

Why wouldn’t you just leave the reading light switch in place? On my vents the reading lights switch is in its original location and the LED chandelier switch is on the opposite side of the vent. I bought 3 matching push-push switches so they are all uniform.

 

[ThePair]

Why wouldn’t you just leave the reading light switch in place? On my vents the reading lights switch is in its original location and the LED chandelier switch is on the opposite side of the vent. I bought 3 matching push-push switches so they are all uniform.

Do these not come with their own switches?

 

[Shane826]

They do. The switch in the vent has to be ON for the reading light switches to work at all. The vent switch is like the master switch. I just find it a lot easier to use the vent switch and not have to climb over the couch to use the switches at the lights.

 

[Kidkraz]

Ok, I ordered all the parts to replace my vent trim with the chandelier lights.
I am curious now about the vent switch for the front bed reading lights. Could one of the remote dimmer assemblies be wired into the vent light system where the remote could then be used to turn the light on and off? Could adding the remote dimmer enable me to remove the on/off switch completely? I swapped the OEM lights with LED lights.

 

[Shane826]

Looks like there is an on/off function on the remotes so you could in theory remove the switches. However I think someone said they all run on the same frequency so I’m not sure how you’d control the LED chandeliers separate from the reading lights.

 

[ThePair]

They do. The switch in the vent has to be ON for the reading light switches to work at all. The vent switch is like the master switch. I just find it a lot easier to use the vent switch and not have to climb over the couch to use the switches at the lights.

I meant the Heng's

 

[Sopper]

Me too!

Installed my Heng's last weekend. Did one to test the ease of installation. Wasn't too bad at all!

 

[Larryjb-HILO]

I installed it last night too. I got the warm white. I kept the original light for dim lighting instead of installing a dimmer.

 

[Kidkraz]

Morning folks, silly question here, since I am not as electrically savvy as I would like to be.
I'm finally getting to installing my chandelier lights. There are two power and negative wires for the two front vents, since I have two separate light assemblies there. Would I use both power wires, or just one? I'm not worried about the negative so much as making sure I'm not using too much power with using the two power wires.

 

[Shane826]

Go further up the line, those 2 wires will be spliced off one wire. Eliminate the extra wiring. One power, one ground. But even if you use both power wires it will make no difference. Just makes for a rat’s nest of wiring.