Today, I Have Mainly been Lighting............
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Today, I Have Mainly been Lighting............
............... mostly on the two new bogie coaches, which now have their lights installed and working - roofs next!
The other project I made a start on was to adapt some 1:24 scale dolls' house "Tiffany" table lamps for LED illumination. I'd got some 3mm "bright white" LEDs and some heat shrink, so that one leg of the LED could be cut off short and soldered to the top of the metal lamp standard - the other leg was covered in heatshrink and passed through the drilled out hole down the middle of the lamp standard. Solder a wire to the bottom of the standard (which appears to be made of brass) and connect to a battery, and Bob's your uncle!
shows how the job was done - you can just see the red heatshink showing at the bottom of the lamp. As the lamp will be fixed down to a table, it'll all be hidden.
shows the lamp alight - it actually looks better than this!
The other project I made a start on was to adapt some 1:24 scale dolls' house "Tiffany" table lamps for LED illumination. I'd got some 3mm "bright white" LEDs and some heat shrink, so that one leg of the LED could be cut off short and soldered to the top of the metal lamp standard - the other leg was covered in heatshrink and passed through the drilled out hole down the middle of the lamp standard. Solder a wire to the bottom of the standard (which appears to be made of brass) and connect to a battery, and Bob's your uncle!
shows how the job was done - you can just see the red heatshink showing at the bottom of the lamp. As the lamp will be fixed down to a table, it'll all be hidden.
shows the lamp alight - it actually looks better than this!
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I just had a very strong feeling of deja vu! I swear I just read this word for word somewhere else! LOL! But this time there are pictures! (Darned egroup Digests!)
It looks an ingenious idea! Very nice!
It looks an ingenious idea! Very nice!
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