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Afternoon all. An idea has entered into my head and figured I'd post it up here for vetting. <br /> <br />I've got a set of N scale Con-Cor passenger cards - sleeper, coach, diner, obs, baggage. My layout's 4'sx8' running off a DCC Zephyr system. What I'd like to do is retrofit lighting in the passenger cars. I figure this can be done with some white LEDs, a function-only DCC decoder and some way of picking up current from the rails. It's my understanding the decoder will convert the rail AC to straight DC, at which point I can step it down with the right resistors. I think it'd be fairly neat to be able to turn lights on and off individually in the cars, so it'd create some visual variety. It'd also keep the cars from being lit while just sitting on a storage siding. <br /> <br />Thoughts? Crazy? Doable? The thing I'm hanging up on right now is where to get a good truck that can feed power into the car, since they're not designed for it.
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