Western Pullman - adding lights
Entry posted by Barry Ten
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Some LEDS were ordered over Christmas and once they arrived I set about adding front and rear lights to the power cars.
Here's a grisly shot of the internal wiring - can you tell it's still at the prototyping stage? I'll tidy it up once I'm satisfied that the
wiring is complete.
It's not as complicated as it looks! Somewhere in that tangle is an 8 pin DCC socket so any decoder (or blanking plug) can be swapped in and out in seconds. I made all the lighting connections to the wires leading away from the socket, so again there's no need to tamper with the decoder wiring itself. Up front is a light cluster of three warm-white LEDS, with two arranged to shine through the main lights, and the middle one (lit in this shot) arranged for the reversing light. These lights are controlled by function 0 and reverse automatically with the direction of the train:
i used translucent red to tint the middle LED - it could still benefit from a few more coats. Another option would have been to order a red LED! By the way, these are all pre-wired with resistors so they can be used without any modification. I used 5mm types but 3mm ones would have worked perfectly well.
In order to produce a lens effect, I drilled right through the front castings and then added a dab of that clear glazing solution to each light. A lot of work was then spent light-blocking the interior to prevent the light from the LEDS shining into the cab and the bogie space.
As before, here's a short clip of the unit in action:
Cheers!
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