The 20-year-old awning light fitted to my parents’ elderly ’van still worked, but shone a rather dull yellow rather than its original white. We’d cleaned the opaque cover several times, but the plastic had discoloured with age. Not only that, but it was still using the original bulbs, rather than energy-saving LEDs. So it was time for a change.
We could have just replaced like for like, but we thought that it might be handy to fit a unit with a photocell, which would cause the light to switch on when it was dark outside.
If you use brightly lit full-facility campsites, an awning light isn’t really a
