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Douglas,

Like you, I use LED strips, warm white, cut into groups of 3, 6, 9 etc for buildings, passenger cars, etc. Chinese suppliers on the Bay sell 5 meter strips (sixty 3528 LED's per meter) for $2 and change. You get a total of 300 LED's, 100 groups of 3. I power the LED's in buildings from my fixed 14volt accessory bus through an under-the-table mounted AC to DC Buck converter (LM2596HV) available on the Bay for $3. I dial down the DC output to approximately 9V to get a lower intensity lighting effect. Requires some simple soldering which if I can master, so can anyone! These AC-DC converters handle up to 2.2A and each group of 3 LED's draws about 20mA - so you can power many (over 100) groups of 3 LED's through one converter. (Hope my math is correct.)

Bob

OGR Publishing, Inc., 1310 Eastside Centre Ct, Suite 6, Mountain Home, AR 72653
800-980-OGRR (6477)
www.ogaugerr.com

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