Splashes Locomotive.
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Re: Splashes Locomotive.
Nice details on those moulds. Are those wipers moulded on the windscreen?
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Liking the lighting! Where do you get the led units from? Would they run off a couple of AAA batteries?
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Yes the windscreen and lights are a one piece moulding that includes the wipersdwomby wrote:Nice details on those moulds. Are those wipers moulded on the windscreen?
The ultra bright white LED's come on a long strip that runs off a 12v power supply. The strip is made up of sets of 3 LED's in series with a resistor, what I have done is cut out the individual LED's and solder lacquered copper wire to the exposed contacts, once I work out how many LED's I will use individually or in series and what voltage I finish up with I can work out what resistors I will need to use.iggie wrote:Liking the lighting! Where do you get the led units from? Would they run off a couple of AAA batteries?
As for running the LED's off AAA batteries, they need 3v each but there is a simple ingenious little circuit called a Joule thief that enables you to run an LED on 1 AA Battery that is flat https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule_thief
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Great stuff Alan, this is really interesting. From your description of the electronics of modern model railways, things have certainly changed since I last dabbled as a teenager in the late 70's. I'm used to more of a James May scenario with little motors that have "brushes" and track side transformers with a single rotary control for the speed!
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Ha, I have some of that LED tape around somewhere....I sense an experiment coming up!splash wrote:The ultra bright white LED's come on a long strip that runs off a 12v power supply. The strip is made up of sets of 3 LED's in series with a resistor, what I have done is cut out the individual LED's and solder lacquered copper wire to the exposed contacts, once I work out how many LED's I will use individually or in series and what voltage I finish up with I can work out what resistors I will need to use.iggie wrote:Liking the lighting! Where do you get the led units from? Would they run off a couple of AAA batteries?
As for running the LED's off AAA batteries, they need 3v each but there is a simple ingenious little circuit called a Joule thief that enables you to run an LED on 1 AA Battery that is flat https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule_thief
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It looks like my mad dabble with electricery is contagious, iggie if you need a strip of these LED's to play with just PM me your address and I will send you a strip.
Regards Splash
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I'm going slightly overboard with the electronics, the simplest option would be to use the dcc supplied 18v AC current and simply add resistors, but as I'm still learning about electronics I like to over complicated as practice
Having now tested my AC/DC converter using power from the model railways controler I'm getting 17v DC to use for the LED's, I could have just soldered the resistors in line but have gone for using a small circuit board to mount the resistors on just to tidy it all up.
Having now tested my AC/DC converter using power from the model railways controler I'm getting 17v DC to use for the LED's, I could have just soldered the resistors in line but have gone for using a small circuit board to mount the resistors on just to tidy it all up.
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Thanks for the offer Alan but I already have the tape, I'll need to have a play with my soldering iron and a battery. I love the joule thief idea, that may come in handy for the boat at some pointsplash wrote:It looks like my mad dabble with electricery is contagious, iggie if you need a strip of these LED's to play with just PM me your address and I will send you a strip.
Regards Splash
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The rear ends lights have now been sorted and tested using the train sets power supply.
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Let there be light.
Looks really cool Splash.
Looks really cool Splash.
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The problem was it was not running cool, I had calculated the current at 20mA per LED I should have used 10mA , easily fixed with a swap to bigger resistors. It's now running cool and not quite as bright.Old_Tonto wrote:Let there be light.
Looks really cool Splash.
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All the electronics have been sorted so it's now time to carry on with the build.
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That's great work, Alan. I envy your ease with the electronics - I can handle the very basics but have to sit with a book on anything else and never seem to retain what I learn. It was better long ago when we had Radio Shack stores with drawers of components and I could go in fish around until I came up with the needed parts -- it isn't the same online.
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I'm only at ease with low voltage projects like this, I still have a steep learning curve and find rellitivlly easy projects like these make the understanding of how it all work a lot easier. Like you I keep notes in a small book and keep referring to it.jRatz wrote:That's great work, Alan. I envy your ease with the electronics - I can handle the very basics but have to sit with a book on anything else and never seem to retain what I learn. It was better long ago when we had Radio Shack stores with drawers of components and I could go in fish around until I came up with the needed parts -- it isn't the same online
We have a local Maplins that is similar to Radio Shack but I find the components are so cheap on eBay from UK suppliers that I'm happy to wait the three or four days they take to arrive.
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Now the electronics are sorted it's time to button it up, progress should now be quicker.
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