For now, we are successfully running a few LEDs in the kitchen.

Mr. Green has built light bars under each wall cupboard to light the work surfaces and hob, plus a few in the centre of the ceiling.

You’re probably aware that LEDs are very different to incandescent in that they are more directional. So you need either to have lots of them to light a room, or change the way you use lighting to point them to various places.

They are running off a car battery just as an experiment at this stage. They go literally for days before we need to recharge the battery (this is being done from the mains at the moment, but our aim is to run them from a solar panel).

That’s about it for now - Mr Green will put a post up with lots more technical detail and photographs soon. All I know is whether they are effective and point to the right places -he has the technical know how
Have a beautiful day