Inexpensive interior lightning with LED strips

[Schraddel]

Hello!

A while ago, i purchased a 5 metres LED strip with 300 warm-white LEDs. There also are resistors for every group of 3 LEDs which allows to feed the strip directly with 12V. For this it is possible to cut off an group of 3 or a plurale of 3 from the strip. The backside of the strip is self adhesive. The price is really interesting because of about only 10,- € (app. 11,- USD) for 300 LEDs on the 5 metre strip.



This is a piece cut from the strip an glued onto the roof of an RPO. As the LEDs are very bright, i have mounted there two aditional resistors of 0,5kohm to dim the brightness and to modify the LEDs for the higher than 12V tension of DCC systems.
Here you have to do experimenting of your own, until brightness meets your expectations.




In natura there is a more bright white light, the photo has an rather yellowlish glow.
This was a quick and cheap interior lightning.
There also are LED strips with pure white, similar to the light of fluorescent lamps.


Lutz

[sailormatlac]

Bright idea!

It also have the advantage to model well even spaced independant light sources.

Matt

[cnrglen]

I've been using these light strips in my structures for awhile now. They work a whole lot better than incandescent lights.