Voltage Pola included light bulbs.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know what voltage the light bulbs included with POLA structures are designed to work on?

I have a light house with two light bulbs but no voltage is mentioned in the manual. I have looked carefully at the bulbs, but I can't seem to read any rating.

I expect 12 volt, but will start with a low voltage and slowly increase it to see what happens, it would be nice though to know the official rated voltage..

Who can tell me?

Thanks.

With kind regards,
David

[wallyworld]

I don't know if youre planning to put these buildings outside or not but some time ago, I scrapped the lights that came with the buildings and bought the bottom of the line string of malibu lights complete with timer and transformer for around $30. I use them outside in each building after cutting down the posts and the replacement bulbs are more easily obtained than the Pola replacements, at least for me.. The Pola Silverton station in particular looks great at night.

[Anonymous]

Dear Wally,

Thanks for your reply, yes, I am planning on putting the building outside.
I am a starter though, would first want to start out with the standard lighting before I change anything.. :-)

Also, I live in Holland and the number of shops that carry a lot of G-scale products are hard to find.

I tested the lights from the pola set on 12 volt. This seems to give a bright light and I still suspect that this is the official rated voltage.

What surprised me was that the bulb from the light house isn't a standard off-the-shelf light bulb, but has some electronic built in to let is flash every second or so. You can't tell this by looking at the bulb, it looks very ordinary.

With kind regards,
David