New Lighting In The Train Room

Beautiful!  Well worth the effort!

F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S ! ! ! 

 

Lighting is key to great photographs.  Each and every time.    Nice, Dave!

 

David

A bright, beautiful photo!  Looks like the aggravation installing them was worth it!

Dave,

I agree, 100%.

 

Chris

LVHR

Looks great Dave! 

Pictures of the LED's & fixture

 

Thank You

Ken M

Well done. It looks great. It doesn't hurt when the scenery looks so good too. 

Dave, never mine the lighting your scenery is F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C.

AWESOME !!!!!

 

 

Alex

Looks Great David! It looks soooo, realistic and like a normal sunlite day.

 

Dennis

NJ

David looks great,

I am looking at revising my over the layout lighting. Currently I have 20 amp spot lamps that put allot of heat and suck up allot of juice!

Can you show us a picture of the fixtures, bulbs, and distance away the lights where hung?

Thanks! 

Looks a lot brighter Dave ! 

From the photo, looks like this LED light may be color corrected. No yellow tinned...

Lights and scenery look great, keep up the great work.

 

Jack

Dave; I'd like to see the lights & fixtures also.

Dave,  that looks like a beautiful layout from what we can see - have you posted more photos showing the overall layout before?

 

Your home layout I presume? This is the first time I've seen this from what I can remember...

Dave,i to would like to see a picture of the lights.as i am in the process of rebuilding my layout.

Looks great Dave!

Here are a couple stock photos of the light fixtures.

 

 

 

 

My friend Brian is using them in his shop and layout room and I thought they looked great so I tried them.  We used remodel cans to mount the fixtures.  The existing lights were T8 fluorescent.  They had a harsh, blue tone.  The new LEDs have a very warm, natural, soft white.  The layout has a warm,summer day feel to it now.

 

Here is a 2:30 am, just finished phone photo.  Two of my best friends helped.  The room is 44'/18' with 15 lights on the ceiling.

 

 

 

Flooring and fascia are next.

 

Thanks for all of the nice comments!

 

Dave

 

 

 

 

Thanks for the tip Dave! That looks great! Perfect timing for me as I was planning on dumping my flourescent lighting for track lighting this winter.

 

I think I'll go with those led disks, less work and far less fixtures, with realistic vivid light.

Rick,

 

I tried track lighting and found it to be too spotty.  I think you will like this lighting.

 

Dave

 

Lighting is very nice, where did you find these lights?

 

Thank You

Ken M

Dave,

I absolutely love that first shot.  Looks great!!!

Very impressive.

 

Yes, this is a new light I had never seen before.  The photo of the room shows how well they work even in a big room.  Thank you for the tip.  I will keep them in mind.

Love that first shot too, Dave!  Fantastic lighting, to boot!

 

Larry 

Dave your layout looks very nice and love the mill!!! Great great light tip.

Dave,

 

I love the look of the new lighting.

Dave the lighting and photos look great.

I also used similar LED trim inserts for both 5"/6" cans as well as the 4" cans and they work great.  Costco has these for $7.99 each; IMO a price too crazy to pass on to give a try.  As you showed, they are easy to install with the spring clips and standard bulb plug adapter.  They are also dimmable with the proper type dimmer switch.

David,

Did you previously have incandescent  can lights?  What size (60W)?  How much brighter are your led replacements and do they allow more light horizontal (sideways) than the can lights?  What is the cost and suggested supplier?

Thanks,

Mike

Dave

Are those full spectrum?

Andre.

how many lumens are they rated at?

I wonder if these LED floods would work out in super daylight?

I need 22 of them to replace the hot incandescent yellow 50w spots.

These are GU10 64K, 3W=50W LED’s

Link –

http://www.ebay.com/itm/390412588155?var=660068347519

Any lighting guru’s here that can advise?

You say you found them at Costco for under $10. Such a deal as all I can find are around $30. at Lowes. 

I was going to hide my cheap shop lights between a few painted 6" steel studs faced in so to slip  a plastic cover to hide the fixtures.

 

I'll keep looking.

Phill

i too could not find the $10 dollar lights at Costco

I just got done remodeling my basement for my new train room in December.  I installed 27 recessed cans.  I looked for a long time for an LED light that had high lumens but have a color range of 2700K (soft white).  The Daylight ones are too harsh.  I used these which are 1245 lumens (100 watt bulb equivalent), dimmable, 2700K and only 20.00 per light.  They are fantastic, soft bright light and I have them on dimmers so I can dial them down if I want.  Highly recommended and they replace any Flood blub in a standard 6 Inch can.

 

What would be a good spacing for using these?

That's what I'm talking about !!

I'm late to the party here, my friend, but that new lighting looks absolutely great! Can't wait to see it up close and personal.