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[quote user="froggy"] I bought quite a few of these street lights from ebay. They are brand new and are 12 volt lights. Someone at the train club I visited said to power them with a 9 volt adapter because they wouldn't get too hot and would last longer.The adapter has a white line on one wire and the other is plain. Which do you think is positive? If any of you have ever added lights of any kind to your layout, please tell me how difficult the wireing was, Thanks. [/quote] They may
[quote user="gpa"] I've been saving the power supplies to my old cell phones and accessories. Most are around 5 Volts and 500-800ma. I don't think I really need the extra voltage of a 12V PS, but I'm no electrical genius. [/quote] No, you don't need the extra voltage. You can operate LEDs from any D.C. voltage. It's just the size of the resistor that would change with different voltages. You should be able to operate 20-25 LEDs from those power supplies. A 150 ohm 1
This will probably earn me some sharp criticism but I'll say it anyway. Boys and girls from a very young age are into entirely different pursuits. Maybe it's in the genes, maybe it's in the way we bring up children. My 5 y.o. grandson loves machinery. He loves cars and trucks and big machinery and trains. His 7 y.o. sister is into dolls and clothes and colouring pictures. It's the difference between masculine and feminine. That's not to say there aren't exceptions, however
I use a 2.5X Optivisor. Best investment I ever made. Got it on the advice of a friend who was an instrument technician and used one all the time at work. I wear it a little high over my eyes so that I can tilt my head back and look under it for normal vision--sort of like bifocals in reverse. They do have a rather short focal length so that helps. And a bright light as others have noted. I have a 26 watt CFL lamp in a reflector over my shoulder. No heat, but our cat misses the heat from the 100 watt
[quote user="P5se Camelback"] It's been my experience that the best substance to wash shells off with before painting is dish detergent - but NOT liquid hand soap. It leaves a residue, which is what it sounds like the Pine-Sol did for you. The other thing is to rinse thoroughly! Then let it dry for a day or two in a place where it won't collect dust. Then, prior to shooting that first mist of paint, blow the thing off with a blast of just air from the airbrush. In lieu of an air
JSperan: In Saskatchewan you can watch your dog run away for 3 days. Saskatchewan woodpeckers have to pack a lunch. And if you think Regina potholes are bad you haven't driven in Winnipeg!
I have an idea for securing your valance. I have to say that I do not have a valance over my layout but if/when the time comes, I would use this method. Draw a line on the ceiling where the valance is to go. Suspending a plumb bob so that it touches the edge of your layout (or as far in or out as you want to go) will enable you to follow the curves of the layout. 1) Screw small blocks of wood through the drywall into the joists. With your joists on 2' centers I would put a block on every joist
I guess I could call this "A ride in the cab." This happened back in 1978, give or take a year. At the time we were living in an isolated northern community in the middle of nowhere. The nearest city was about 150 miles away (also in the north), an 8 hour trip by train. In case you're doing the math and it doesn't add up, most of that area is muskeg which is like laying track on Jello, and the train stops at a few First Nations settlements along the line and also stops anywhere
[quote user="Southwest Chief"] [/quote] Although I always wondered if constantly powering on and off ends up being worse for bulb life. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've always heard that turning an incandescent bulb on and off is harder on it because when the filament is cold, it has less resistance than when it's hot so the initial inrush of current is higher at the moment of turn on. Once the
I always enter the MR sweepstakes on line. It doesn't cost me anything, not even a postage stamp, and I promptly forget about it because I know my chances of winning are infinitesimal. If I win, nice surprise, if I don't, life goes on. Although the thought did cross my mind that if I won one of the top prizes, they would be useless to me as I model in N scale and don't use DCC. But, I know someone I could give the locomotive to and since it didn't cost me anything, I'm not out
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