Members Monthly Project - April
Posted
#118460
(In Topic #6198)
Legacy Member
April project questions and comments here please.
All your questions on the April project to go here please.
Posted
Full Member
Posted
Full Member
Stubby47's Bespoke Model Buildings
All photos I post are ©Stu Hilton, but are free for use by anyone.
Posted
Full Member
Not this time Stu - the brief is to keep it simple!!Looking forward to this Geoff, will there be any logic diagrams as well ?
Posted
Legacy Member
Posted
Guest user
Posted
Full Member
Wayne
Posted
Guest user
Is it OK to use these for running LEDs, or are there problems with this idea quest:
Posted
Full Member
Posted
Full Member
Not knowing what a 1 Ohm resitor looked like (the colours, not the shape…) I found this website : Resistor Color Code Converter
I could not find anything in the YMR index.
Stu
Stubby47's Bespoke Model Buildings
All photos I post are ©Stu Hilton, but are free for use by anyone.
Posted
Guest user
Cheers
Dave
Posted
Full Member
Exactly my point….:oops:
Stubby47's Bespoke Model Buildings
All photos I post are ©Stu Hilton, but are free for use by anyone.
Posted
Inactive Member
Max
Port Elderley
Port Elderley
Posted
Guest user
Brian
Posted
Inactive Member
Les
Devon Junction
Kernow Junction
Kernow Junction
Posted
Guest user
ive got some station ones to do so i will watch Geoffs progress
Brian
Some station ones already done here but apparently not correctly as they seem to be a bit warm and trip the transformer after a minute or two.
Posted
Full Member
That doesn't sound good, Rick. What type of station lights are they - bulbs or LEDs. Also when you say transformer, what have you actually got powering them?Some station ones already done here but apparently not correctly as they seem to be a bit warm and trip the transformer after a minute or two.
Posted
Guest user
The platform lighting is unbranded but supplied in packs from an eBay seller "everydaygoodz". They were advertised as and supplied in a bag marked 12vDC. They have small rectangular lamp units which seem to emit the light from a glowing wire and are definitely not LEDs.
They are wired in parallel back to one of the cheap Hornby train-set type controllers which can be picked up for a few units of local currency quite readily. The output is quoted as 12vDC.
The controller has a rotating dial which will regulate the speed of trains were it connected to the track but does not regulate the brightness of the lighting. It is either on or off. When it is on there is a faint but distinct smell of something being warm and after around 2 minutes the lights cut out.
They can be restarted but only by disconnecting the output and allowing the transformer to reset itself. However because the lights remain warm when power is reconnected they will trip again in a few seconds.
Posted
Guest user
Posted
Guest user
1 guest and 0 members have just viewed this.