Age of Strife


http://www.ageofstrife.com/blog/Spack/model_railway_christmas_tree_b-132_sid-2aa69df80385308104ae0f3ac2458347.html

Author:  Spack [ Sat Nov 24, 2012 10:12 pm ]
Blog Subject:  Model Railway Christmas Tree

Today we put up the Christmas decorations in the house. After a while I had this odd thought creep into my head: "why not have LEDs on a tree on the railway?". A short time later and I had 5 LEDs plus some resistors soldered together and wrapped round a small conifer on the railway layout near the station entrance.

Image Image Image

They're surprisingly bright. Unfortunately I only had orange, yellow, and red LEDs left in the small size, would have liked to put a green one in too. Maybe next year ...

Tags: Railway



Comments

Author:  estarriol [ Sun Nov 25, 2012 4:55 pm ]

Mad as a hatter I say, mad as a hatter!

Author:  jlong05 [ Tue Dec 04, 2012 2:04 pm ]

Looks pretty cool. You need blue and green though to be more 'Christmas' styled for colors. But I think it came out really well. What about a tree topper? Maybe a star or something.

Author:  Spack [ Tue Dec 04, 2012 7:04 pm ]

I only had yellow, orange, and red spare in 2mm LEDs which is why there isn't much colour. I might try sanding down some of the green ones that have plenty of plastic on them and add them later.

Time zone: Europe/London

Powered by phpBB © 2002, 2006 phpBB Group
www.phpbb.com

Blogs powered by User Blog Mod © EXreaction
www.lithiumstudios.org