Coach lighting
Coach lighting
Just finished adding coach lighting to show the interiors I finished off a couple of weeks ago.
Decided to operate the lighting with reed switches to avoid having to find somewhere discreet to hide the switches. https://riksrailway.blogspot.co.uk/2017 ... aches.html
Rik
Decided to operate the lighting with reed switches to avoid having to find somewhere discreet to hide the switches. https://riksrailway.blogspot.co.uk/2017 ... aches.html
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Re: Coach lighting
Ironically Rik we posted videos about this on the same day!
I am going to use your reed switch idea as although I don't use a switch (piece of paper is slid on the postive contact of the button battery cell to turn lights off) I do have to remove the roof.
I am going to use your reed switch idea as although I don't use a switch (piece of paper is slid on the postive contact of the button battery cell to turn lights off) I do have to remove the roof.
Re: Coach lighting
If you order 10 reed switches from China (for 99p inc postage!! - What?? ) then you should have plenty to spare. Those latching flip-flops (now there's an image ) are worth the investment as well. Beginning to think of other applications for them.tom_tom_go wrote: ↑Sun May 21, 2017 5:50 pm Ironically Rik we posted videos about this on the same day!
I am going to use your reed switch idea as although I don't use a switch (piece of paper is slid on the postive contact of the button battery cell to turn lights off) I do have to remove the roof.
Rik
Re: Coach lighting
Does it matter whether the reed switch is a normally open or normally closed Rik?
Phil
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Sporadic Garden Railer who's inconsistencies know no bounds
My Line - https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic ... 41&t=11077
Re: Coach lighting
Should be NO. The module is triggered when the trigger input is connected to ground (0v) so if you used NC it would be constantly triggering.
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Re: Coach lighting
Hi Rik,
I got round to fitting this all up using just a hall sensor and 2 x 3v coin cell batteries and it worked, however, the batteries were dead the next day so I guess the hall sensor is using a fair bit of power.
Have you had to recharge your battery yet?
I got round to fitting this all up using just a hall sensor and 2 x 3v coin cell batteries and it worked, however, the batteries were dead the next day so I guess the hall sensor is using a fair bit of power.
Have you had to recharge your battery yet?
Re: Coach lighting
Nope. I ran the coaches again with lights on a couple of days ago when a visitor came to call and they still seemed to have plenty of charge. One of the reasons I rejected the hall effect sensors which I looked at was the relatively high residual current drain. I think the modules I used only draw 2uA whereas some of the other modules I looked at were as much as 60uA.
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