Lazy Grange Bay 3...a new start

[stockers]

Look great, as always mike. Do you wire the led lamps on the buffers direct to the DCC? Thats what it looks like.

 

[mike]

Thanks guys...
Yes Alan. ..dead simple..one wire to each rail..resister on one.. dosnt mater which.. and yes on anolog it's a different story . ..but not on bcc...

 

[stockers]

Interesting - I always assumed some form of rectifier would be needed to sort out the virtual AC current.Presumably the diode action of the LED does the job and it is powered by half rectified current.
So LED lighting in coaches should be simple!

 

[mike]

Yes, I have been told I need to re wire the historic set buffet car for the yellow bernina ,I replaced all the table lamps with led. .. I know it will only light up in one direction on anolog , but on dcc ,it works fine,

 

[PhilP]

Yes, I have been told I need to re wire the historic set buffet car for the yellow bernina ,I replaced all the table lamps with led. .. I know it will only light up in one direction on anolog , but on dcc ,it works fine,

Or you put a 50p bridge rectifier in as well, and are sorted!

 

[AustrianNG]

Very neat buffer lamps Mike.

 

[Neil Robinson]

Yes, I have been told I need to re wire the historic set buffet car for the yellow bernina ,I replaced all the table lamps with led. .. I know it will only light up in one direction on anolog , but on dcc ,it works fine,

For DCC only you could put half the leds the opposite way round to the other half in each coach This could halve the peak current drawn.

 

[Rhinochugger]

Or you put a 50p bridge rectifier in as well, and are sorted!

Yeah, or build your own wheatstone bridge.

As a teenager I had a Honda 150cc bike which unusually for those days had an alternator. The plate rectifier died, and the Honda part was blooming expensive, so a friend of my parents who was an electronics whizz with Decca built a wheatsone bridge replacement - Honda ran fine cost me £2 for diodes.

 

[PhilP]

Yeah, or build your own wheatstone bridge.

As a teenager I had a Honda 150cc bike which unusually for those days had an alternator. The plate rectifier died, and the Honda part was blooming expensive, so a friend of my parents who was an electronics whizz with Decca built a wheatsone bridge replacement - Honda ran fine cost me £2 for diodes.

<pedant mode ON>
A wheatstone bridge, is where you use three known-value resistors to find the value of a fourth resistor of unknown value..
A bridge rectifier, is either an encapsulated device, of made-up of four diodes.
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[Rhinochugger]

<pedant mode ON>
A wheatstone bridge, is where you use three known-value resistors to find the value of a fourth resistor of unknown value..
A bridge rectifier, is either an encapsulated device, of made-up of four diodes.
</pedant mode OFF>

Just another opportunity to share my lack of knowledge


In my defence, at least I could remember the name wheatstone


And in any case, it made the Honda work

 

[mike]

Slow but steady...
Not finished few bits to do..

 

[mike]

Very neat buffer lamps Mike.

Thanks paul..

 

[PhilP]

Stupid Boy!

You'll never get the tablets out those little slots!

 

[mike]

Lol.. running a few ..weathers too nice not too.. even managed a bit of track cleaning . .

 

[mike]

 

[AustrianNG]

The Summer wine is still flowing at the LGB III

 

[stockers]

Do love the Junkers and brown vans.

 

[Rhinochugger]

I'd be interested to see a track plan

It's probably been posted, but I've forgotten what it looks like

 

[mike]

Jenny treated me to a tin of paint...

 

[mike]

Nicky and Frank s...mmarklin version...