Nice inexpensive scale signals.

Thanks for the tip. Comes out to about $4 per signal. For that price, I could live with plastic. Adding relays to control the aspects is easy enough.

Made in China.
WE HONEST...That scares me.

Can't put anything past you, can we?

Thanks for the tip. With a little paint they could look really good.

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Originally posted by eddie g:
Made in China.
WE HONEST...That scares me.

If made in China scares you????

Man are you screwed

No trains for you for the next 200 years

David

Nice find.

Could be just my monitor or their camera setting, but the rendering of the Red color looks orange-ish. Some so-called "red" LEDs don't have that deep red color. Likewise some "green" LEDs don't have that deep green color (they look more yellow-green or slime green). I suppose the LEDs can be replaced if need be as the value is in the structure.

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Originally posted by DPC:

quote:

Originally posted by eddie g:
Made in China.
WE HONEST...That scares me.

If made in China scares you????

Man are you screwed

No trains for you for the next 200 years

David

Have you purchased anything on e-bay from China ?

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Originally posted by pennsyk4:

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Originally posted by DPC:

quote:

Originally posted by eddie g:
Made in China.
WE HONEST...That scares me.

If made in China scares you????

Man are you screwed

No trains for you for the next 200 years

David

Have you purchased anything on e-bay from China ?

100 O scale peoples(Their spelling not mine)sitting and 100 O scale peoples standing.Just happens it was from WE HONEST

David

Absolute RED on this: NO NUMBER PLATES! Right price!

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Originally posted by eddie g:
Made in China.
WE HONEST...That scares me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAA1xgTTw9w

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Originally posted by pennsyk4:


Have you purchased anything on e-bay from China ?

I've purchased lots of stuff on eBay from China, even more stuff from the US that was made in China. I've gotten it all and there have been no special issues with the stuff direct from China. It doesn't come as fast, but it's not an emergency.

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Originally posted by eddie g:
Made in China.
WE HONEST...That scares me.

Although we haven't ordered anything from this particular vendor, we have ordered a few things from other similiar Chinese vendors. What shocked me was the quick delivery (less than two weeks) for the items from China to Maryland!

I have had We Honest bookmarked for some brick sheets for a scratchbuild project that I want to do over the winter.

You really can't go wrong with PayPal and using a credit card. If the product isn't delivered, you get your account credited.

Jim

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Have you purchased anything on e-bay from China ?

I've bought from a number of sellers from China. I had an issue with one item broken but got my money back so I'm 100% good. I got a bag of figures for about 5 cents each and they were a good deal. Lots of other stuff.....I may get a few of these.

My last batch of people came from these guys and I couldn't believe how fast they got here from China. I've had domestic mail take longer. Decent product for a decent price too.

Jim McC.

I also got some level crossing signs with flashers recently, great value, and I bought heaps of people, power supplies all sorts of things, never had a problem.
These people are very keen to do business and understand the importance of good service. I lived and worked in Asia, I had some very good business relationships with Chinese companies, there are dishonest dealers all over the world, I've had more bum deals off Australians, Americans and British.

I bought some of the O scale brick sheets from We Honest...

Thoughts -

Very quick shipping from China...maybe less than a week?

Quality - not bad...maybe a 7 on a scale of 1 to 10.

The only other brick sheets I've purchased were from N Scale architect. The ones from We Honest were a little thicker...maybe 0.03" to 0.035", but the bricks were well defined and crisp. The bricks were crips throughout the sheet. Some of the N scale Archtect bricks get a little less defined on the edges. The overall size was smaller than the sheets from N Scale architect, maybe 8" x 10". I haven't painted them so I haven't seen how they look finished.

The styrene used might be a little softer than say Evergreen stryrene? When using the score and snap method of cutting I've had to clean up some edges with sand paper. Not a big deal though, still able to cut via score and snap without a problem.

With the extra thickness, window and door openings are a little tougher to cut out than the N Scale Architect sheets. But, for background buildings, the price can't be beat. It works out to about $5 per sheet...cheapest around.

I'm probably going to stick with N Scale Architect sheets for forground buildings as they are a little easier to work with (being a little thinner). But, will use the We Honest ones for large expanses of background brick structures for cost.

CTA Fan

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Originally posted by eddie g:
Made in China.
WE HONEST...That scares me.

I've bought from them several times - no problems, fast delivery.

John

I'm getting a bunch of their dwarf signals.

I'm giving them a shot! Just ordered five.

Questions:

What triggers the aspects to change?

Can they be used on 18 volts?

Rick

Great deal on trees and switches!

Gunny

The signals are just that- signals. there are no electronics, just the LEDs and a dropping resistor for each one. You have to provide the means to switch the leds on / off. simplest way is an insulated rail and a spdt relay.

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I'm giving them a shot! Just ordered five.

If you get a chance, we'd like to hear a review of them, when they come in.

I'm thinking that the HO versions would be the right size for a subway system.

Thanks!

CTA Fan,

Thanks for sharing your experience with the brick sheets!

Jim

I just got them in yesterday. Like it was stated before, there are no electronics. It is a decent pole, ladder, and signal housing and simple wireing with a power wire/resistor to run off the track power, and one other wire for each of the three LED lights in the housing.

Now, if you want SUPER DETAIL this isn't great. But for the money its great! I plan on wiring mine up simply to looks like trackside structures with a light on. Mine won't switch or anything fancy. If thats all you want then you cannot beat these!

I'm pretty sure I ordered a set of 20 streetlights from these same guys for about the same price! I'll let you guys know when they come in.

Oh, and I'll try to take a pic when I get home.

I just got the dwarf signals today, 15 days from China isn't bad delivery. The signal is about the same depth and width as the Atlas O dwarfs that i have(and haven't put on the layout yet ). Height, of course is taller(1.1" or 54 scale inches). There is only one resistor for all three LED's, and it's wired backwards from normal electronic convention--- the black wire with the resistor is the positive lead, the red/yellow/green wires are the negative leads. The leds do light up to normal brightness with 12vdc, I don't recommend less voltage unless you change the resistor to something less than the 1000 ohms that is supplied. With 12vdc, the current is 10 Ma., usual max is 20 ma., so they light up just about right.

To use the 3 aspects properly, i suspect i'm going to have to do some reverse engineering of an MTH 3 aspect signal's guts. Of course, my circuit board won't be as small as the MTH one . Or, I'll have to use the circuit board from an Atlas O 3 aspect signal(type G or D)

I am satisfied with the quality and construction, and may buy more itemsfrom this manufactuer in the future.

Thanks for the reviews, guys!

I just ordered a set of these dwarf signals as well. I got their block signals, and those looked great, so I expect to see similar construction with these.

I've had mixed luck buying stuff from China. I bought a volt/ohm meter for one cent that arrived DOA,and was cheerfully replaced with one that works fine. Other buys weren't so good.

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Originally posted by Fec fan:
The signals are just that- signals. there are no electronics, just the LEDs and a dropping resistor for each one. You have to provide the means to switch the leds on / off. simplest way is an insulated rail and a spdt relay.

Can you explain this a bit more? How would I wire this? Sorry, I'm kind of dumb when it comes to this.

Can the guys who bought these post some pics?

The signals are just bare LED's with a common positive lead and individual negative leads coming out the bottom. There is NOTHING but LED's and wire inside the signals. The intend of the supplied resistor is to put it in the Positive lead that is common, then you can ground any of the negative leads to light it's respective LED on the signal.

Hi

 

The We Honest guys sell control boards for flashing signals. The indicate that they are

not for not suitable for common anode or common cathode crossing signals.

What is a common anode/cathode signal?

thanks

ralph

I buy things from these guys and have not been disappointed. I have some of their dwarf Signals. All their signals need to be repainted as they are shiny black and the detail is a little lacking but I am using them in areas that are far away from viewers. I'll use my brass signals up close. Don

Ralph, the crossing signals use either common cathode or common anode connections to the LEDs to save wiring. The Wehonest boards are set up to supply power to the anode and ground to the cathode of individual LEDs. hope this explains the warning--

 

You might want to take a look at these Signal Controls from wehonest as well.  A pair of these costs $27 with shipping, and I just tested them with the signals mentioned.  They work great, a nice cheap way to have some signals on the layout.  They also sell them in lots of 5.

Price of ebay item 150649187481 is $19.71 USD.  Plus shipping.  or about $4.00 USD each.

I like buying direct.   Though I think it isn't great for our favorite US O scale shops that the China manufactures are finding ways to sell direct.   I pity the day some one in China offers a direct sale of fine brass O scale steam engines.   It's only a matter of time....

 

It's national competition.  It's great!  The best part is we (the USA) started it!

 

And here's the eBay item 150641118076 that is the dwarf signal to match.

 

WE Honest sell at really cheap prices. I have some of their boulevard lights.

However, as to scale and resemblance to US products they are just slightly off! Also what they sell is interpretations of  what they must see as scale.

 

They do not look good next to really nice scaled signals. So place them in spots that are not focal points of the layout.

 

Further if you purchase their crossing signals you need to buy flasher and sound  circuits separately. Otherwise they are okay.