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Reply to "Lionel #394 Rotary Beacon"

Just wanted to pass along my experience. I tried a 394 beacon and could not get it to rotate. I then tried a 494 beacon but did not like the noise. So back to the 394. I read somewhere ( on this forum, I think) how someone used an aquarium air pump and hose to direct a flow of air at the rotating lens. I mounted a Radio Shack mini cooling fan right behind the beacon, but the airflow seemed too spread out to have any effect. So I put an inverted cone (a cone from a craft store used to make "snow cones") over the fan with a flexible straw sticking up. I directed the straw to blow on the rotating lens. By just tweaking the placement of the straw, I can make the lens rotate at the speed I prefer. And the only noise is a soft noise from the blowing air. BTW: I power the beacon from my accessory circuit which is set at 12 volts. A little spray paint and no one will notice anything. Anyway, it worked for me.

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