Originally Posted by Gary E:
An easy alternative if your passenger cars use bayonnet type bulbs is to use an 1819 bulb. It's rated 28 volts but at 18 volts is a nice yellow color. At 28 volts it's rated at 40 ma but at 18 volts it uses only 25 ma. I have an 8 car passenger set that used more than 6 amps for the lighting but now uses less than an amp.
You're still stuck with the uneven lighting of the bulbs, not to mention the flicker as they run. The LED solution solves both of those issues, and drops the current even further. Those eight cars would be using around 200-300 ma all equipped with LEDs.
