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Greetings Everyone,

 Here's my newest LED project vehicle.  The base vehicle is a New Ray 1/43 snow plow.  The emergency lighting is a rendition of the style used by The Ohio Dept. of Transportation.  It is a combination of green, yellow and white strobes. 

 The light bar on top of the cab is scratch built using Plastruct "L" shape pieces for the brackets and a piece of Lucite square rod that was milled to size on a small hobby style milling machine.  It has a total of 6 LED's (2 of each green, yellow and white)wired to 3 separate flashing circuits which provide a nice random pattern.  Two "cool white" LED's for headlights complete the cab.

 On the rear of the truck there are 2 (one on each side of the hopper) green and yellow triple flash strobes.  The green and yellow are wired to flash independently of each other.  These lights were custom built out of the same Lucite rod that was used for the Light Bar on the cab.  There are 4 "wig-wag" style lights on the panel just above the rear bumper along with green and yellow "Hi-Viz" safety stripes.  Two red tail lights are mounted in the bumper to complete the rear lighting.

 All of the electronics, along with a 9 volt battery are housed inside the salt hopper which allowed me to employ several types of lighting to attain the effect seen in the video.  BTW, there is a total of 18 LED's used in this project and they were purchased through Evan Design which is a Forum Sponsor.   Thanks for Lookin'.

 Chief Bob (Retired)

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walt rapp posted:

while watching the video, I was waiting/hoping that you would take off the cap and show the inners.  Very well done!

- walt

Thanks Walt.  I won't remove the hopper cap but I'll give you a little hint.  All of the lights mounted on the hopper and rear bumper are controlled by two boards, wiring and a 9 volt battery which are mounted inside the hopper.   The lights on the cab are separate but the power comes from the battery stored in the hopper as well.

Chief Bob (Retired)

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