Comments on: Lighting a Building On A RR Layout https://blog.model-train-help.com/2009/01/lighting-building-on-rr-layout.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lighting-building-on-rr-layout Model railroads and model trains Mon, 26 Nov 2012 04:47:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Anonymous https://blog.model-train-help.com/2009/01/lighting-building-on-rr-layout.html#comment-105 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:17:00 +0000 http://68.171.208.138/~blogmode/2009/01/lighting-a-building-on-a-rr-layout.html#comment-105 Jim,
Paint the inside walls of your building black – the light won’t leach thru’. 2ndly – use mini-strip LED’s. J-Car sell them. You buy them in strips of 3, 6, 9, etc. They have an adhesive backing and are readily connected. The resistors are all in place – just conect to a 8 – 15v power supply. The LED’s come in soft, bright and other colors, excellent for building & carriage lighting.
By the way, everyone says that LED’s have to run off DC power. Rubbish! They work just as well on AC. You can detect a flickering from peripheral vision, only briefly I may add, but this adds to the realism.
I’m not sure what you are trying to achieve with your show window, but if you can’t find a proprietary line, make one yourself fom strip styrene readily purchased thru’ your hobby store.
Hope this helps
Regards

Ian

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