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very nice job!!Thumbs Up
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We put cloth over the lights; the looking-into-the-sun glare is gone but the light is still bright. Modifying the cloth thickness adjusts the amount of light.

The cloth pieces are 7" in diameter and are held in place with 18 gauge aluminum wire (17.5" is a good length per light).

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You can buy cheap filter tape from 3M, or you can get some specialized filters from Lee (like these Zircon filters), or you can experiment on your own with colored paper or plastic.
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Thank you for all the thoughtful replies.  Task lighting is a great idea.  A few people mentioned filters.  Is that something you purchase or do you make them yourself?
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Looks like there are lots of low cost options for add on dimmers that can be added in series to RV lighting circuits. The drawback (if you consider it to be one) would be that multiple lights would be dimmed simultaneously. One or more of these can be wall mounted, which would save changing out or adding a lot of light fixtures. Here's an in depth technical discussion video going through various dimmers available on the market. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f843IYqifmk
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I replaced most of my stock LEDs with these dimmable LEDs.  They work great.  We also purchased the warm light vs the cool light.  Less harsh.  They are a direct and simple replacement for the factory lights that came with the pod.  Highly recommend.
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We just got our 2019 R-Pod 179 the end of July in 2018 so I am a newbie but am finding this forum very helpful with a lot of good humor but as far as lighting, one of the first things we wanted to do is cut down on the harsh lighting.  To that end we found some task lighting on Amazon (acegoo 12v Reading light, RV Boats LED Reading Lamp Dual Lighting Mode Directional Lighting with Dimmable Touch Switch Brushed Nickel, Hard-Wired). 

I installed 2, 1 on either end of the bottom of the dinette overhead cabinet (was able to find the wiring in the overhead cabinet and install each light just short of the support in the cabinet floor which worked out ok. Then after installing the proverbial over the bed cabinet I used the third light we purchased mounted on the underside of the cabinet above the head of the bed giving a good reading light in bed.  I find that we are using these lights a lot more than the factory installed lighting except for in the kitchen area, those ceiling lights seem to do the job pretty well.
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A 2018 will not have changeable bulbs like the earlier builds.. You will need to either use filters, or change the entire light fixture.
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Originally posted by offgrid

LED's are dc devices. So while not all 120Vac LED lights are dimmable because of their power supply design I think  (might be wrong, I haven't researched it) that 12Vdc LED lights should all be dimmable.   Has anyone ever tried to put the lighting circuit on a central dimmer? 
LEDs are DC devices. The ones you use in regular AC appliances and fixtures have voltage conveters in them to control the voltage and current because most LEDs only require a very small forward voltage in order to "light up". In addition, LEDs can not handle very much reverse bias, so there are often protections built into DC devices to prevent them from getting blown out from the reverse voltage.
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