@illinoiscentral posted:I'm thinking the combination of (cheapest,Cree,thru-hole), might have to give up on one of those.
Design and have made a long thin circuit board? And populate the board yourself?
I bought two PCB from Royz Troyz for brass Sunset passenger cars, they have thru hole LEDS, maybe buy boards and replace the LEDs?
I didn't use a circuit board. The LED leads merely go through some holes in existing plastic cross structures to keep them in place. The LEDs (used 4) were 21 cents each, the diode 6 cents, and the resistor 3 cents. That's a grand total of 93 cents for the parts. (Not counting whatever a little hookup wire cost.) I think anybody would be pretty hard pressed to do it for much less. Unless they dropped the design to 2 LEDs and lowered the resistance (would then have to be a 1/2 watt one probably) and in that case it could be done for 50 cents. Or perhaps buy really cheapie LEDs. But I got more even lighting using 4 LEDs oriented like they are.
