I have been thinking about using one of those battery tea lights as a campfire for my Christmas display for awhile now. I finally looked into doing it tonight. Turns out the battery is 3V and I had an adjustable wall transformer that had a minimum setting of 3V… perfect. And it flickers like a fire too.
Came out pretty well (sorry for the crappy cell phone picture, my dad has the camera with him in Mexico right now)
It looks a lot better in person and will be cool on my Movie theater display.
SantaFe158,
Great idea! I’m doing my first ever Christmas Tree layout & I think I will copy your idea - only my candles are battery powered.
Thanks for posting. Merry Christmas.
wyomingscout
This was actually made using one of the battery powered ones, now it’s hooked up to a 3V DC transformer instead. Either way would work. Not sure if it’ll last the whole season, but it’ll look cool for a little while anyway. The only part of the original candle I used was the LED which has the flicker feature built in. I just hardwired it to the transformer.