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<p>[quote user="richhotrain"]</p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">hon30critter</div> <div class="quote-content"> <p>Can you imagine what the modellers of 50 years ago would say if they were presented with SMD LEDs? I don't understand Athearn's long established resistance to them. </p> <p> </p> </div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>Dave, I assume no pun intended there with the word resistance. <img style="display:inline;" alt="Smile, Wink & Grin" /></p> <p> </p> <p>I agree with you that Athearn should enter the 21st Century and abandon those short lived incandescent bulbs in favor of long lived LEDs.</p> <p>Rich</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>Rich,</p> <p>I wish you had done this 2 years ago, or that I had thought of using SMD LEDs...I managed to stuff a 3mm led and a resistor into the smokebox of a Proto C&O Berkshire.  It was not a simple task.  Lots of filing involved.</p>
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