DutyDruid

Yes, LEDs can be dimmed; I have a total of 3 rooms with LED downlighters, all on dimmers.  You can't achieve very low output levels because there is a "minimum" output level which you can't go below.  If you are talking about the mini florescent bulbs that fit in ordinary BC/ES/SBC/SES connectors then the answer is "not possible".

A traditional dimmer works by reducing the voltage supplied to an incandescent bulb.  As I understand it, the LED dimmers work by messing with the "duty cycle" of the supply voltage sent to the light unit.  This means that the light is on at full brightness but not all the time and the eye perceives this as being "dim" compared to the full brightness of an always 100% supply lit LED (if that makes sense).

As a starting point, if you're talking about LV LEDs then take a look at the Bachmann Just Plug system.  https://www.Bachmann.co.uk/category/scenery-landscape/woodland_scenics/just-plug-lighting-system?page=3

HTH

7 hours ago, Dave John said:

I have a sneaking feeling I have seen a pair of points like that laid with interleaved sleepers, somewhere Scottish pre grouping. 

 

Someone will remind me, probably. 

Hi Dave.

This google search shows a number of pictures of Barry Slips, both real and model.  With the exception of the photo of someone whose name happens to be Barry Slip, most of them are either here on RM Web or on Martyn Wynn's Templot site.  I have been on the Missenden Modellers Weekends for both Track Building and Templot and I have produced a template for one of these formations in both Templot and Trax.  All I need now is for the rest of my life to subside so I can sit down and make one up...

Cheers

Elliott

Hi Will

Any update on how you got on?

I'm looking at setting up a slack handful of layouts for hands-off uncoupling and I would be really interested to hear if you managed to make this work.

Thanks

Elliott