Replace headlight on my Mohawk

Lionel shows it as a 14v grain of wheat bulb (incandescent). They are shown as unavailable but a minitronics bulb should work. 

Pete

You can also put in a much better looking headlight using a 3mm flangeless warm white or amber LED and a 470 ohm resistor.  Looks great and more focused like a real headlight should be.

Norton posted:

Lionel shows it as a 14v grain of wheat bulb (incandescent). They are shown as unavailable but a minitronics bulb should work. 

Pete

Their available on ebay. But I'm with GRJ time for an led.          j

If you don't want to go down the LED path Ray, Lionel has other 14V Grain of Wheat bulbs that will work.  You will simply have to splice the wires which you would have to do with LEDs anyway.  Here is one that meets your specs:

Hello

     Hennings sent me some Led and resistor combos but snail mail flattened them to crumbs . Currently they are out. Any suggestions for another source?

Thanks

Evan Designs carries several options for LED's with built-in resistors.  I have used a few for engine headlights with excellent results.

Ray

If you plan on attending York in April you can have Henning bring ot to the meet.

For an LED, you will have to add one more component, a .01uf capacitor directly across the light outputs of the R2LC.  If you don't add this, the LED won't work properly.  This could all be build into a harness that drops in to replace this existing light harness.

Ray Marion posted:

Hello

     Hennings sent me some Led and resistor combos but snail mail flattened them to crumbs . Currently they are out. Any suggestions for another source?

 

Thanks

   

Can post a picture of your LEDs? Hard to imagine the Post office could crush them. You would have to hit them with a hammer to break them.

Pete

I've had that happen when I taped signal diodes to an index card and put them into a 1st class envelope...they run it thru rollers at the USPS. Powdered diode...

Pete

No Hammer. I think it was under this.

Pete

     This is what I received.

When I ship something like that, I cut out a slot in cardboard and use that in the envelope.  Tape the item inside, I've never had an issue.

Ray, small wonder that it was destroyed!  I think that's on the USPS.

John 

     I agree. Anyway I found them at Evans all set up for installation. A big thank you to Ron Arndt.

Ray