I was wondering whose van it is top left in this Appletree picture.

What kind of LEDs did you use to light the pop-top, and how did you connect them up?

Me and Mrs P reckon it looks well spiffy, and I was thinking of doing something similar.

I'm not after the full fairground on the common Barnum and Bailey job, but something cool like yours.

Actually, the whole shebang might be quite neat, but for the full effect it'd need that fabulously evocative smell of candy floss and hot dog onions mixed with diesel generator exhaust.

And the crackle of electricity in the night air from the dodgems, the clank of shooting range tin ducks, the thud of heavy cork balls into the coconut shy backstop, squeals of delight from the waltzer and people's faces lit by the flashes of a thousand coloured sixty-watt bulbs...

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What are they running off, mate?

Assuming they're 12v DC, is it 230v via a separate 12v transformer or the battery?

No sweat, old fruit.

At the risk of opening up Pandora's thing once more, is your 12v lighting circuit 12vDC or 12vAC?

Ours is 12vAC, as per the wiring diagram in the manual. That's why when I replaced the under-locker torpedo lamp bulbs I had to get AC/DC LEDs which could cope with a voltage range rather than 12vDC dead which lots of LEDS require.

Maybe your Ikea ones can too.

It'd make any installation a lot simpler if they can and I could do it like yours.

Have you got any moody night time pictures with them on?

Darling...

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Hiya mate. Guilty as accused
Not being very technical, all we did was take a string of something like these.
We then shortened the string length so that it was just long enough to wind around each roof locking handle in turn before running the lecci cable down to the nearest power point. Simples.
HOWEVER......when we parked next to Fenderman at La Rochelle, we saw that he had very bright white light emanating from his pop top. What he had done was to buy LED strips and stick them around the aluminium trim at the edge of the pop top.
Therefore, last week we bought 2 strips of Werbung: these and one of Werbung: these. The lights are sticky backed so can be applied to the aluminium strip (we hope).
Not too impressed with the company we bought them from at the moment as one of the strips doesn't work. It's only a loose wire that needs soldering but my soldering iron as gone AWOL and when we complained to the supplier they were quite happy to send another set to us but we would have to pay postage (it is in their policy so not a leg to stand on). The new set is on its way to us as we speak. We've always had problems with purchasing fairy lights off various companies so we half expected it.
My main concern is whether the lights mounted on the aluminium strip will be "too much in your face" but Fenderman's far larger white lights were OK except they were pulsating for some reason or other when run off 230V. The ones we just bought appear not to at the moment.
Randa

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Well as for AC/DC I just wired them in and they worked!

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...but Fenderman's far larger white lights were OK except they were pulsating for some reason or other when run off 240V.

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Thanks Graham.

If I'm going to have a crack at this, I need to do it so that the fittings - and more importantly the wires - are hidden away.

I can't abide wires all over the place. I have recurring nightmares about tangles of bloody wires. Wires for headphones, wires for chargers, knots of cables, nests of leads - the whole thing.

Does my nut in.

I hate wires.

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Zitat

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If I'm going to have a crack at this, I need to do it so that the fittings - and more importantly the wires - are hidden away. I can't abide wires all over the place

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My plan is to start the run of the 2 x coils of lighting from above the washroom cabinet and to eventually put a 13 amp socket on the side of the high level cupboard/shelf adjacent to the washroom, in the front dinette area. Therefore a very short run of cable with adaptor.
Well, that's the plan anyway....
Randa

No not mine John. I think it was Steamdrivenandy's....