Gerald Marafioti posted:Stan,it isn't so much as to provide general illumination,but rather to just create a different mood around the trains,i don't know if i am explaining what i want correctly, but i just want to put a few lights in different areas,even using a different color,such as yellow,or orange led's of course,those two colors are actually the one's like the most, the led reels you mention are a possibility,& when i think about it Evans Design has the led's allready made up to run on track power. I just wanted to try & make up my own so maybe i could learn something about how to put these things together,but maybe i am biting off more than i can chew,but it is still fun to try.
WeberCanyon4014 posted:You can do that with LED strips. They can change color and brightness all from a handy little remote control. We use them above and below kitchen cabinets to do that very thing. Change mood and seasons.
Cheap too... amazon
Given what you're trying to do, I like the LED strip suggestion. Yes, you can buy strips of LEDs of different colors...so a strip of white LEDs, or a strip of orange LEDs, or a strip of yellow LEDs, etc.. Or you can buy so-called "RGB" strips. Each LED on these strips has 3 LEDs built-in (Red Green Blue). By controlling the relative current to the 3 LEDs you can generate a full range of colors including white. It can be tedious wiring up 3 circuits to adjust the RGB strip color so you can buy RGB controllers. In this short video I show a basic controller ($1-2 on eBay, free shipping) wired to a RGB strip.
In this case I press the "color" button on the remarkably tiny controller and it cycles thru a range of colors. Hookup couldn't be simpler. You apply 12V DC and the controller directly connects to the LED strip as shown. There are wireless remotes for not much more. There are fancier controllers with wider color selection, programmable cycling through colors and intensity, and so on. On eBay just search for "RGB LED strip" and you will get thousands of choices.
