Economical Lighting

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eit27
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15 years 9 months ago #2113 by eit27

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Does anyone have any economical lighting solutions?

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andyjbj
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15 years 9 months ago #2114 by andyjbj

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yes! Holiday lights from the dollar store. A real winner.

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15 years 9 months ago #2126 by eit27

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Wouldn't they be a too big to be prototypical? The bulb that is.

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15 years 9 months ago #2128 by andyjbj

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yes, somehow I thought we were talking about lighting up buildings from the inside

For streetlighting, I would probably get bulbs from Model Power and scratchbuild?

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15 years 9 months ago #2134 by eit27

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Thanks for the help.

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15 years 9 months ago #2135 by shamoo737

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Can you be more specific about what type of lighting you are looking for. I have all kinds of lighting in my layout and engines.

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15 years 9 months ago #2137 by Cleantex

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For building inside, most easy, even with bad soldering iron
are all smd led's with specification PLCC-2.
Depending of the color, you choose the led and connect it inline
with a resistor about 560 Ohm, that will be good up to 12 Volt with
no prob.
If it is still to much bride, just increase the resistor, up to
3300 Ohm everything should be visible.

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15 years 9 months ago #2138 by andyjbj

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VERY USEFUL info Armand. I kept wondering what size of resistor would be right. Nice.

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15 years 9 months ago #2139 by Kelley

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I was thinking about getting some of the new LED type christmas lightsets..now I have a really stupid question.. How many people actually run their trains in the dark? I got all kinds of lamps on poles for the one layout and was worried about lighting it but.. would I really need to? It needs lights around the fences and at the gate (one for Lili Marlene to stand next to)but I have a hard enough time seeing things with the lights on.

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15 years 9 months ago #2140 by andyjbj

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My wife and I had a moment of clarity about this too. The real issue is train cars - they tend to be pretty tough to light unless you get Passman to do it, and then what is the point of lighting a building if all your passengers sit in darkness? So, we plan to light the stuff that is lit during daytime - Train head/tail lights where practical, and signals.

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15 years 9 months ago #2145 by eit27

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Andy,

To answer your question, I should have mentioned outside lighting in the first post. I have figures out the economical way of lights the buildings with LED's and sort. I'm just having a hard time with street lights, signal, markers and such. I have been able to find so but they are in the range of $20 a piece. Really pricly in my opinion. Thanks for any direction you can provide.

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15 years 9 months ago #2146 by shamoo737

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Kelly, I get home late, so my layout look too dark. That's when I started to light up my layout. I think it looks pretty cool with lights. I have street lamps, lighted buildings, and lighted signals. I also have engines with ditch lights, and cars with FREDS.

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15 years 9 months ago - 15 years 9 months ago #2148 by shamoo737

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www.trainboard.com/grapevine/showthread.php?t=96168

The cheapest way is to make your own using smds, and brass tubing. Here is a link to where you can find all the supplies. If you do a search, you can find smds cheaper.

www.ngineering.com/Z_shade_photos.htm

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15 years 9 months ago #2155 by Kelley

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Andy I was thinking the same way..I dont want to put tail lights on autos either. I do like layouts that light up like Shamoo's, but I need to spend the money on things like buildings and bridges. I will have to make things to accept lights later when times are better. I seen in Germany the really neat backdrop that turns into night scene. I could see someone with a train room with good lighting that dims and a fastclock doing operations day and night, but my little spur will have to be dark. I could always do era 2 and say its a blackout.

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15 years 9 months ago #2164 by eit27

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The picture on the ngineering wedsite were very informative. Thanks for the link. Do you happen to know what lengths to cut the tubing to get the proper height? Thanks.

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