Any sources and their particular products you have used?
Thanks
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If you have basic soldering skills, I've been successful with scavenging the flicker LED's out of battery powered tea light candles. I can't name the other electrical components you'd need off the top of my head (to run on AC power at least), but they work well.
I believe you can get pre made circuits (at an expense) from various sources as well
Thank you guys, I think using both will make a great scene.
(Walked right past those candles Saturday Jake!, didn't even think of them:-)
I agree with NJCJOE, Evans Design is a cost effective way to get around "re-inventing the wheel"
www.modeltrainsoftware.com Good people, great products, fair prices.
Dave G.
The tea light LED's are the whole package. Just add filtered DC with a current limiting resistor.
If you have 12 volts DC, the current limiting resistor would be a 470 ohm 1/4W resistor for 20MA to the LED.
LightHouse LED's has a bunch of these LED's and they're finally cheaper than buying the candles and ripping them apart! 
I use the yellow and orange ones, haven't tried the other colors.
Considering everything the kit seems to me the way to go. I have seen this particular one, it is quite realistic.
http://glxscalemodels.com/fire-kit/
Originally Posted by NJCJOE:
I bought a couple of these but haven't used them yet. The Evans Designs Welder kit looks great though, we put that in the roundhouse.
Lee, since the bulbs above come in multiple colors, you might be able to duplicate that effect. I guess I'm just a cheapskate.
Originally Posted by gunrunnerjohn:
Lee, since the bulbs above come in multiple colors, you might be able to duplicate that effect. I guess I'm just a cheapskate.
Well, you see, I tried a bit. Its not the bulbs and their color, its the flicker. I tried some tea candle bulbs and yeah, they worked best, but the flickery types were close to the for different color bulbs (red, yellow, organe) and what I got looked most like the flashing of an electric welding rig. The kit I posted has a constant glow with slight, long flickering and looks more realistic - actually VERY realistic. If I do a campfire, I'd use it I think
But its a fun project to do to experiment. I hope someone does and reports on it.
Here's a project I just completed, using Evan Design fire LED's. I got the idea from an old thread on the forum posted by another forum member. This campfire idea really adds a touch of realism which I intend to use in other vignettes on my layout.
-Pete
john, good find! Finally! although I had fun tearing into the tealights! for the flickering fire box mods. im going to make a Coke oven behive setup and these will work nicely. and campfires. using the red, yellow. cool. thanks for the link. Originally Posted by gunrunnerjohn:
The tea light LED's are the whole package. Just add filtered DC with a current limiting resistor.
If you have 12 volts DC, the current limiting resistor would be a 470 ohm 1/4W resistor for 20MA to the LED.
LightHouse LED's has a bunch of these LED's and they're finally cheaper than buying the candles and ripping them apart!
I use the yellow and orange ones, haven't tried the other colors.
I just received a sample of five of each color they offer so I can see what various combinations look like.
Add a constant red and a constant orange in the Flicker set up and it looks real nice.
I just got all the colors of the rainbow from them, so I have an assortment to test. 
