Blue lights for night running

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Hi,

I’m currently building the lightning for my tripledecker. So far I’ve gone with normal incandescent light bulbs so that I can dim them for night running. But I have an idea. I could use LED lightning strings instead of the dimming. Run them separately from the normal bulbs and get a nice blue light for night running. Anyone out here doing this or have any experience from it?

In my mind it looks like a real nice idea with some really cool effects created. The layout would be almost dark with just the houses, trains and other layout features casting a clear light on things.

The lights are about 30-40 cm from the layout and only the top two levels would use this. The lowest one is staging.

So, any opinions?

Magnus

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You can read about led’s here:

http://cs.trains.com/forums/1494940/ShowPost.aspx

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I’m using blue rope light for night lighting on the layout. I have it on a dimmer so that I can control the amout of light. The efect looks like this:

Here is a photo of the installation.