alphonsus Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 Hi, I will have a row of terraced houses and want to simulate TVs using LEDs (cool white or RGB). I know there are products designed to simulate fireboxes, campfires and similar but I've not seen anything suitable to simulate a TV. Before I start mucking around with Arduino scripts (PWM pins, random intervals, random brightness, all x10 houses), is anyone aware of an existing product? Google isn't being helpful... Yours hopefully... Alph Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamThomas Posted August 22, 2021 Share Posted August 22, 2021 The Train Tech SL60 should fit the bill. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Il Grifone Posted August 22, 2021 Share Posted August 22, 2021 Depending on period, a blue LED* would be better to simulate a black and white TV. The LEDs would only need one or two feeds as the TVs would all be tuned to the same channel. Once VCRs became readily available (say 1990 on) this would no longer be the case. You could even run the LEDs from an actual video signal (audio would probably work. * Maybe a white and blue LED in parallel as it would have been a pale blue. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Jonboy Posted August 22, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 22, 2021 The little battery flickering tea lights you can buy instead of candles are generally “playing” an audio file from a small circuit board for the “random” effect. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphonsus Posted August 22, 2021 Author Share Posted August 22, 2021 Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I think I'll investigate using an audio file as the random element. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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