let there be light
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 6:57 pm
a few pics I got been busy this weekend finally finished my shops and put them in place
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That's just what it's like here sometimes. I only just saw them now. I am a little sleepy and I was thinking at first, "why is he posting pictures of some street at night-time?" I didn't realize it was a model village at first.jim@NAL:97922 wrote:thank you got 1 comment at least someone's looking get the feeling no one cares or looks what I put on here sometimes
That's REALLY doing it the hard way! Get yourself to your local IKEA where you can get a string of 30 with a 2 X AA battery box, all for the princely sum of £3! It's in their RAMSTA range.....................bazzer42:97968 wrote:I've only just caught up with this thread as well. Spill the beans Jim, how do you power up the leds? Is it a chain? I'm putting 12 volt boy racer Leds in my buildings but not thought how I'm going to connect them all up....
Aaaah Mr Dominic, versatility is the name of the game as the soft white give a nice glow at 9 volts and they can be cut in blocks of three. I have put them into coaches and underslung a pp3 on the chassis. Just not tried buildings yet.MDLR:97975 wrote:That's REALLY doing it the hard way! Get yourself to your local IKEA where you can get a string of 30 with a 2 X AA battery box, all for the princely sum of £3! It's in their RAMSTA range.....................bazzer42:97968 wrote:I've only just caught up with this thread as well. Spill the beans Jim, how do you power up the leds? Is it a chain? I'm putting 12 volt boy racer Leds in my buildings but not thought how I'm going to connect them all up....
bazzer42:97997 wrote:My wife has a fixation about solar lights in the garden, she buys dozens of the things.MDLR:97975 wrote:
Thanks for the feedback Jim, I might have a mess around with a solar light and see what it will do with my light strips.
They don't seem to last very long in general ( about a year). I'm not sure whether the recharegable batteries go or the small piece of chinese integrated circuitry gives up the ghost, although I suspect the latter - put a normal battery in and they spring back to life, so it isnt the LEDs themselves.
BTW I've used them in my station and have the same problem.