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The basic white LED runs at about 3.5 volts. If you eliminate the built-in resistors in what ever LED string you are using, you can put in a voltage regulator and illuminate the LEDs at about 4-5 volts of track power. There is some overhead lost in the regulator.

If the input to the regulator from the track has a bridge rectifier (4 diodes in a bridge) the LEDs will illuminate on AC , DC+ or DC- track power and almost any voltage.

I see that Ray said basically the same thing.

Last edited by RoyBoy

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