Gotta give these chips a try! Evans Designs new chip LED's are great

Big difference Paul....really looks nice.  I like your park in the middle of the town.  It reminds me of towns that had a park-like square...

 

Thanks,

Alan

Those look good.  Thanks for the heads up.  Will have to try them.

That's pretty interesting and your layout is fantastic.

Thanks for posting Paul. The lights make all the difference!

Greg

Thanks Alan, I wanted to have an area for all the O scale figures to enjoy lol!

Nice pics, Paul!
Those chip LEDS are great.  I put four on top of my Lionel airplane pylon.  Nice and bright.  These are small enough to be used for a passenger car drumhead too.

Wow, Paul they look great!

 

Thanks for sharing, I didn't know they had chip LED's.  I had used their other LED's before, and they were very convenient as you noted.

Keith....great idea about the drum head.  I am going to get a few and do some experimenting!!

 

Thanks,

Alan

 Wow Paul, the fact that they take such a wide variety of power is very nice. I think they'd be well worth the price to me too.

 and of course I'll say again how good your layout looks!

Have you ever cruised that remote control vette around main st on your layout??

With a LOT of practice I got fairly good at negotiating the layout with the 1:43 remote Vette, but had to take most of the other vehicles off the road to do so. Looked great and was fun but not practical.

Paul - Did you use the model that was like 8-12Volts?....

Good tip Paul! And I will join in on the kudos for the park!!

Looks Great Paul! I have used them to put behind marker light lenses. The only problem is trying to handle them with my big paws!

Va Golfer,

    Great to talk with you again, and thanks much for the tip about the LED lights.

Do you have a telephone number to a purchase place,  I will check Scotts odds and ends also.

PCRR/Dave

 

I think they look great!

 

--Greg

No I used the ones that are 7-19 volt AC/DC/DCC.

Here is the link to Evans Design, they are a Forum sponsor and are listed in the top banner.

http://www.modeltrainsoftware.com/smd-chip-leds.html

Great tip Paul; and thanks for sharing the pics of your great Town Square.

Those look good,Great tip Paul Thanks

I use Evens Design LED's in all my 1:43 cars and trucks on my layout. For head lights , tail lights and the police car package is awsome.  I use a sticky blue substance that the girl friend turned me on to called Fun Tack to hold the lights in place. Works great.

The people who work there are great to deal with. They are very helpful and try there best to give you what you are looking for. For the money, a very good deal.

I also installed their welding lights into my engine house and the way they light up through the windows makes it look just like the Arttista welder is at work!

Paul the price I got was 2.90 for ten when I was setting up the order.  Don

Evan's Design is a great company.  I have installed their High Intensity white and yellow LEDs as headlights.  On a Lionel FT, I installed a flashing LED in the top headlight as a "poor man's" simulation of a Mars light. 

 

I am thinking that I might try two of these LED chips side-by-side, and alternating, as a better simulated Mars light.  Perhaps Evans Designs will market this as a package - seems like a lot of folks might want to try it as a Mars light.

What is a chip LED and what are they used for?

 

Earl

Don...

 

Did you order the AC/DC version with the rectifier?  I believe the referenced website page shows that this option adds a buck per.  Hey, that's what I'm ordering...it's worth it!!. 

 

 

 

Boy am I glad to see that someone else besides me is lost!!!  Thanks Earl!!!!!

 

- walt

Thank you for sharing the information about these micro LED's.  The installation in the store front windows really make the store fronts pop.

 

Joe

I would again like to add my accolades to Evans Design. My PC crashed. I was setting up a new PC Friday and I could not down load my older Model Builder Software. I wrote to ED before I went to bed and this morning I had a reply and a current version down load.

 

You cannot beat service like that.

 

Thank you, Evans Design!!!

I agree; great people to deal with. It's kind of ironic that this subject was posted today. I just reordered 30 various LED's from them yesterday. Have been buying from them for several years.

These LEDs are so small that they can fit just about anywhere and they are very bright.

 

I found my video that shows my Chip LEDs on top of my Lionel Pylon.  Two red and two white were installed and wired into the pylon.

In the following video, at 7:20, you can see the LEDs at night.

 

Looks great with the LED's on the pylon. Would it be possible to use then to simulate wing tip lights?

Can we try this question again?  thanks

 

- walt

What is a chip LED and what are they used for?

Earl

 A chip LED is a very small led that looks like a glowing miniture rectangle. Many PC's us this as the "on"/"off" Light or the light that flashes when you activate a drive or CD rom.  As shown above, a Chip LEd is used to place light in hard to fit places or where a small amount of light is needed, such as a diplay window in a store, to backlight O gauge guages in control stands, O guage car dash displays, etc.

 

For those that have those menards/woodland scenics buildings with the interior inserts, this is a great way of lighting up those windows!

 

Evans designs shows thier smallest LED 's for a comparison...

http://www.modeltrainsoftware.com/nano-smd-leds.html

 

 

thanks prr!

 

- walt