I was wondering if anyone knows of a good place to buy minature lites with wire leads to add to some slots (HO).....Clear or color..

Thanks,

You are looking for "grain of rice" bulbs available at most hobby stores that deal in miniatures and trains. You can find a whole bunch of web-stores on the yahoo or the like.
Happy hunting!

Don't get any lower than 16V bulbs. These won't get blown out by track power, which usually runs 18 volts and up.

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I second the "rice grain bulbs" idea, and got mine at an HO train shop after I burned out a number of Luxeon LED's in my Fire Chief car. If you have a large body with room for the circuitry in an "LED kit" (say under a large hood), they work great, but when protecting them only with diodes, the diode will burn out after a while, then the LED smokes.

Below, the LED-lite setup and the body with a rice bulb in it.

I second the "rice grain bulbs" idea, and got mine at an HO train shop after I burned out a number of Luxeon LED's in my Fire Chief car. If you have a large body with room for the circuitry in an "LED kit" (say under a large hood), they work great, but when protecting them only with diodes, the diode will burn out after a while, then the LED smokes.

Below, the LED-lite setup and the body with a rice bulb in it.

Mhhh, your wrote diodes but in the pics I only see resistors?
If you work with resistors you can use higher "watt" so they don`t burn out-.
Better is a voltage regulator.

Here is a page with links to some good light sources.

http://homepage.mac.com/pmarchand/Making%20a%20Light%20Bridge.htm

Hey, we need Claus in this thread, he started posting here recently...

he did a VW bus (plenty of room for the plumbing) with headlights and taillights with CAPACITORS... they store energy kinda like a battery, so when he stopped the car, the lights stayed on for a while. he posted WAY cool pics of this on the SCI board, but this had to be a year or more ago...

hey Claus, you out there? :wave:

--rick

Hi Rick,

yepp - I´m here! :dude: Just needed a break from detail painting my very first resin VW bug (the classic one!!!) - but that´s another story...

LED lights are really cool! I´m still searching for a way to build the circuit much, much smaller - SMD parts like resistors are no problem, the problem is the capacitor and the voltage regulator. I´d love to install LED´s into some race cars!

Anyway: Here´s the link to my Bully prototype:

My pocket light VW Bully... (http://www.aus-dem-rahmen-gefallen.de/slotcars/page29.htm)

CU!

Claus

www.c-jet500.de.vu

Go to http://sky.prohosting.com/horacer/brp/hl.html

BRP has a headlight kit with a very small board and led lights

Roger Corrie

Go to http://sky.prohosting.com/horacer/brp/hl.html

BRP has a headlight kit with a very small board and led lights

Roger Corrie

Think they sell the sets via epay(very small parts) I have 2 sets, but actually don´t placed it in a car :rolleyes:

Appr. 20 years ago I soldered some led`s with self made electronic unit as brake lights in Carrera 132 runner...works perfect but don`t have the listing with the needed parts :o think I must check the closet for my old electronic books :drunk:

Mhhh, your wrote diodes but in the pics I only see resistors?
If you work with resistors you can use higher "watt" so they don`t burn out-.
Better is a voltage regulator.

I meant resistor... :)