Lionel Floodlight Tower LEDs

Depending upon the edition of the tower, there are three types of incandescent bulbs you are replacing:

#12 Lamps:

600-2313-300 Lamps:

610-4092-300:

Obviously, to answer your question, we need to know which style you have.

I didn't realize there was 3 different kinds. I'll check tomorrow and report back. The tower is from the 2016 catalog. 

Straight from the manual:

I included the #12 as well because some get confused with the original edition.

Once you identify the style you have, you can likely use a retrofit from one of these outfits:

http://stores.towncountryhobbies.com/leds/

http://www.autolumination.com/trainbulbs_leds.htm

bmoran4 posted:

Straight from the manual:

I included the #12 as well because some get confused with the original edition.

Once you identify the style you have, you can likely use a retrofit from one of these outfits:

http://stores.towncountryhobbies.com/leds/

http://www.autolumination.com/trainbulbs_leds.htm

Thanks. I'll see what kind of bulbs they are and buy the correct replacements. 

I tried that, and I did replace with leds, and found it to be unsatisfactory. I forget just why but ended up just getting the new led towers which I like very much. I’ll look in the am and see if I can shed more light on this.

cjack posted:

I tried that, and I did replace with leds, and found it to be unsatisfactory. I forget just why but ended up just getting the new led towers which I like very much. I’ll look in the am and see if I can shed more light on this.

Ah. I was thinking of maybe just replacing the tower with the new LED one. I might just do that. Be curious to see how the LEDs look.

Does anyone make an LED replacement for #12 or #19 2-pin bulbs? I did not see any on the sites linked above.

Anyone know if you can you dim the led versions?

BobbyD:

I have the Lionel floodlight towers with LEDs.  The lights come on at about 6 volts and get brighter as I increase the voltage to 18 volts.

Neal Jeter

To do a light with incandescent bulbs, the filament does the voltage drop. So all the bulbs can be high resistance, in parallel and just screw in. If you are using LEDs, it’s better to put some of them in series and drop voltages while they’re making light. Otherwise you would have to put a dropping resistor in each bulb base and those bases would get rather hot wasting all that power. So the floodlight would be internally wired differently for LEDs...and thus not easily converted from incandescent bulbs. I’m guessing, because it’s been a year or more, but that’s probably why I gave up on conversion and bought new floods. I like the somewhat white light when dim too.

There's a guy on eBay with both cool and warm white LEDs but you're on the hook for some re-wiring: