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I was out for supplies at Lowes, thinking about how I wanted to add light to my lower level, and I came across these LED strips. They have a sticky backing their entire length. The are expandable. The main kit with the power source and switch comes with two 18" strips, then you can get 12" add ons. The system says you can have 6 total strips joined together (2-18" and 4-12").  The down side was the plugs from one srtip to another, only 4" or directly back to back, but some 24ga wire solved that!

I really like the look, and they were fairly inexpensive, $25 for the main and $15 for the add on!

They put out a good amount of light, I put the 12's on the back side of the front frame facing the back, and the two 18's running width wise in the main areas. 

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Those LED's work really well and they not only will save you money they also don't produce any heat.  I was using the CFL's 3500K on my lighting valance for my Sn3 then it went to ON30.  The CFL's work great too but I just purchased 60W (replacement value for standard light bulbs but is actually only 8 watts for the LED).  These are by Phillips and are rated Natural Daylight and the annual estimated cost to operate them is a whopping $.88 cents per year based on 6 or 8 hours of daily use.   They ran about $9.98 each at Lowe's,  They give off a tremendous amount of light and will make taking pictures of the structures and trains a breeze.  The best thing about being natural daylight is they will show the actual colors very well.

I'm slowly switching all of the lights in my house to LED's.  Your choice to put those under your layout to light the lower level is a great idea, thanks for sharing it. 

Some real good ideas here.  I've tried the head lamp (major PITA and limited visibility).  I currently have rope light installed under portions of the layout, but that doesn't give enough light.  Hopefully, I'm pretty much done with under the layout work on this version of the PRR Panhandle, but I will file these ideas away for use in the next.

Mo985, we are not very far apart.

George

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