Led lighting for Korber roundhouse

Ed,

 

My Korber roundhouse has half of the roof open.  I used HO incandescent bulbs with shades throughout but I used LED soft white strips for the covered section in addition to the bulbs.  I do not have a photo of it lit up but it does look nice.  In the 3rd photo, you can see the LEDs

 

Dave

 

 

Thank you Ed,

 

I really do like the new windows, when I get time , I need to upgrade my roundhouse. (I built one for the show with them, but on my layout is the older one)

 

Dave Super Job!

 

You can find a free download of our new instructions for this model on this page of our web site.

 

http://www.korbermodels.com/Services___Links.html

 

In the instructions, we were lucky to have input from several great modelers, including  Mike Thompson (Mike CT), Alex Muller, and Bob Bartizek.  Bob provided a great section on adding LED lights to the roundhouse, including full color photos.  It really is sharp.

 

You may find this useful.

Rich Great instructions. I started mine a while ago and so far have the beams and walls sections together. Then I decided to stop till I had the turntable installed. I assume the new windows fit the old models? Also someone said you have new doors bit I did not see those on the website? Dan

Thanks Railroad-guy

 

Glad you like the instructions.  I thin good instructions really make building the kits much simpler.

 

Yes the windows fit the older models, no change in the window openings.  In fact the window work on the 304 RH(larger), the 320 RH(smaller), 307 trolley barn, and the 302 engine house.

 

Yes we do have new doors,

 

The detail items for O scale are on this page

 

http://shop.korbermodels.com/Detail-Parts_c7.htm

 

Door photo is turned sideways so it may look off at first.

I see it now. I was on an Iphone the first time

 

Thanks, these will be a big help.

The LED strips are plenty bright and use 12 VDC input,easily made with a small bridge rectifier. You can also use individual LEDs described here made into almost any shape. If you want extra brightness 100ma 5 chip LEDs can be used instead of the standard 20 ma ones. They are extremely bright.

 

www.jcstudiosinc.com/BlogShowT...=407&categoryId=

 

Dale H

Dale,

 

Do you think the strip LEDs would be too bright ?  I was thinking of 3 strips, each strip the depth of the RH and rounded off to an increment of 3.

 

I can do the ndividual. LEDs but just though the strips might be easier.  ( The older I get the lazier I get).

 

Thanks,

Ed

Hi Ed

 

Light intensity is subjective. The big knock on early LEDs was that they were too dim,were directional and had an unpleasant bluish cast. As long as you get the warm white with a wide view angle,you will have none of these problems. The strips are plenty bright IMO run on 12 VDC. However there are brighter individual ones that I cited. I use the 100 ma directional 5 chip types in spot lights and such. Just watch your resistor wattage.   I am a toy train guy so l tend to light things like passenger cars brightly. If the strips are too bright you could break them off in series of 3 and wire the strips in series,+ to -  or add an additional resistor ,or simply reduce input voltage. 

John on the electrical forum uses a voltage regulator,wired as a current limiter. See the post there on LED strips do not work.  

 

So I would just run the strips solid, as long as the building, apply 12VDC (Use a suitable bridge rectifier from an AC transformer) and if they are too bright simply dim them down. Easiest way is to reduce input voltage which could be done inserting a few diodes as voltage droppers in series or simply using a lower transformer tap.  That way you will get even light distribution in a long structure. Wiring this way is very easy.  There are a lot of ways to do things and it is personal preference. I have also used some amber LEDs which have a nice effect. 

 

Dale H

Dale,

 

Thanks for all the info.  My concern with using the strips was that it might be too bright. I didn't know that you can dim LEDs.  That makes it easy to adjust the brightness.  

 

Thanks,

Ed