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Posts posted by jdp298
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I've not needed the more modern ones, but http://www.hezhiqing.com have provided me with a lot of cheap and reliable streetlights to date. I've used the H8, 11 and 18 so far, plus bulk orders of SMD and enamel-wired 5mm LEDs too. All in warm white.
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Just catching up with this one. Long time since I saw someone build a G16. Mine was the Falcon Brassworks one, and it wasn't as easily done as yours. There was also a mistake in the etching where the radius rod passed through the slidebar holder, but you seem not to have had that problem. Overall very well done.
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In your plan, the LEDs are in parallel, so the total current through the resistor should be higher, but the voltage required will be the same a single LED (or lower than if they were in series). Using a 10k like you have with single LEDs will work, but they will be a bit dimmer. It might be what you're after; many are the examples of a correctly weighted resistor giving me an aircraft searchlight on the layout rather than a reasonable streetlight glow.
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I dont have decent photos of the wiring, but here are the control panel instructions for our one at my folks' place. When I say control panel, I really mean the loose collection of boxes and switches roughly geographically co-ordinated.
It's not over either. Current efforts centre on running lighting around the place, meaning more wires and more small boxes.
5v lamp from track supply
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If you want to run a lot of street lights, then grain of wheat bulbs aggregate pretty quickly. By the time you've got 20 or 30, that's actually adding up to a fair amount of current. There are other chinese suppliers - www.hezhiqing.com is my preferred one, that will sell you cheap warm white LED lamps and lights.
There are a lot (and more to follow) on mine, so in the end I went with a 12v 5A separate supply from cpc.farnell.com - PW0391003 . You should expect to cut off the plug and wire it into something you can use. Also means all the things meant to run trains only do that.