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The great postwar Lionel LED conversion!!!

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 5:03 PM
Keith, I broke it. Remember to pick up the glass shards, they hurt when they go into your fingers!!![B)]
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Posted by Jumijo on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:15 AM
Way to be, Jerry. How much will you take for that turbine?

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Posted by 1688torpedo on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 9:16 AM
Looks like you have a very good idea Jerry! I was wondering, How did you get the glass off the lightbulb without breaking it? Sounds like a very delicate situation. Anyway, it looks like you did a very good job.
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Posted by dwiemer on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 8:36 AM
Jerry,
Very timely, I am looking at getting the supply list up for putting lights in an old pre-war rebuild and also fixing a few Postwar favorites. I look forward to any more information you can provide.
Thanks,
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Posted by ChiefEagles on Monday, December 12, 2005 11:11 PM
Jerry, that is great. I've been saying all along, passenger cars need to be convered to LED. Thus less draw on a long consist of passenger cars.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 12, 2005 9:55 PM
Very nice job Jerry. I have some Williams passenger cars I plan to add LED's to make the marker lights. Thanks for sharing the pics......Tim
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The great postwar Lionel LED conversion!!!
Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 12, 2005 8:02 PM
Hello all.

One of my latest projects has been a pretty neat one. I decided to try to make my own LED bulbs to fit in my postwar locos. It turned out to be quite successfull!! used miniatronics 5mm YeloGlo LEDS, they are very bright, and use very little amperage, which means more of the juice can go to the big pulmor and smoke unit in my turbine!!

How I made it is that I took a old dead bulb, popped out the old elment and glass, poke out all the insulation, and a few other things (ill get a diagram drawn, too much to tell here).

Heres some pics.








I love the brightness!!

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