mini light bulbs to work on DCC and DC

Model Railroader Electronics and DCC
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I have a DCC, Ho scale locomotive with ditch lights that use miniatronics 1.5V 15ma mini light bulbs and a SDH164D Digitrax decoder (The light bulbs are connected to the Violet and green wires on the decoder). I need help with the ditch light light bulbs, one problem is that I run it on DCC at home and it runs DC power a my friends layout; so the problem is that the ditch lights are so dim that you can’t see them on DC power. Does any one know of a way that the lights will be bright enough on DCC and DC without burning out (like with a capacitor or something)?

Thanks!!

2

You have entered the twighlight-zone of DC constant intensity lighting. I know several ways to do that, but have not considered how any of them would work in conjunction with DCC.

3

A voltage regulator circuit combined with a diode to control the polarity of the input should do it.

4

This should help

http://www.awrr.com/lighting.html

5

I use Evans Designs LED. I had a DC turntable on my DCC layout and when travelling back and forth between the two, the brightness/intensity was the same. Here is the link:

http://www.modeltrainsoftware.com/bl-212.html