@NJCJOE posted:How do you do that?
Well, not how I did it, but some chap who sold us his room full of trains...including a wall of GS shelving.
He put a layer of thin tape...of some dielectric sort...on top of the 'center' rail. On top of that he had put a strip of thin copper foil...the stuff Micro-Mark and others sell...that has peel-and-stick adhesive on the back side.
Then he soldered wires to the foils and to a buss strip on the left edge of a simple wood frame (1x3's stained/varnished) that served as left/right 'bumpers'. He screwed wires w/ring terminals to each shelf for the common polarity, all likewise soldered to another buss strip. A 12 v DC landscape lighting transformer w/on-off switch powered the whole shebang.
I suppose there are more elegant ways of doing the same thing. Maybe it wasn't "code"-acceptable. They had no small kids in the house. But he demonstrated the effect with the room lighting dimmed....totally awesome!!
Talk about mood lighting for the hobbyist!!!! Heck, I'd have put the bed in that room and had no problem drifting off to sleep staring at that wall!!
Not having any empty wall for the whole shelving shebang, I sold it to a local fellow hobbyist...who removed all the electrical-ities, not having the same interest.
FWIW...
KD
