Winter Challenge 2024/2025 - Flat Iron Corner Building - Tom Langford.

[deemery]

Good luck with the modeling break, we'll be here when you're back at it!

dave

[Larry C]

Tom looking good! Like the girl in the upstairs window; a little-tongue-in-cheek.

[Philip]

Tom, The shadow boxes are nice.

Are nano led's those square shaped tiny lights such as 0604 series ?

Phil in the dark   

[ACL1504]

Tom a neat way to do lighting.

Jerry

Jerry,

Thank you very much. I've done this on a few other models also.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Tom great job on the window boxes. I need to do this technique on a build.

Curt,

Thanks, the window boxes allow you to light a few separate windows without having to light all the windows. In my case, I have a combined 23 windows on the two upper floors.

Tom 

[ACL1504]

Good luck with the modeling break, we'll be here when you're back at it!

dave

Dave,

Thank you, I'll have an update later this afternoon.

Tom 

[ACL1504]

Tom looking good! Like the girl in the upstairs window; a little-tongue-in-cheek.

Larry,

Thanks you, much appreciate the comment. The "girl in the window" will face the track side and also will be visible to visitors.

Tom 

[ACL1504]

Tom, The shadow boxes are nice.

Are nano led's those square shaped tiny lights such as 0604 series ?

Phil in the dark   

Philip,

The Nano LEDs are square but very small. I'm not sure about the number 0604 series. I used the Nano cool white and warm white.

Tom 

[Bruce Oberleitner]

Uncle Tommie,
The build is looking great!  The lights in the upper floors are a nice touch.  So which guy is the one drinking the Diet Pepsi at the table?

[ACL1504]

My wiring now needs to be connected to each other. I have the lights on the main floor and shadow boxes on the upper two floors. These  two circuits are wired in series. I want to wire them parallel. meaning one circuit instead of two.

In the next photo the cafe lights are wired with the black and white wires. The window boxes are wired with the LEDs red and black wires.



The white wires in the photo below are the + positive and the black are the - negative.

You can also see I  unraveled the black and white wires to make it easier to follow.

[ACL1504]

Uncle Tommie,
The build is looking great!  The lights in the upper floors are a nice touch.  So which guy is the one drinking the Diet Pepsi at the table?

Cousin Brucie.

Good to see you my friend. The men are all drinking Diet Pepsi while the women are drinking coffee. 

Thank you also for the kind compliment.

Tom

[ACL1504]

To make it easier for me to feed the wiring below the layout, I added a short piece of 3/32 ID (inside diameter) brass tube. I glued this tube behind the wall.

[ACL1504]

I wired the two white wires to a red wire lead (positive) and the two black wires to the black window wires (negative).

The wires was then soldered to the red main wire and the black to a main white wire - I didn't have the same black size wire as the red so I used white as the negative.

The wires were then fed down through the brass tube.



Back in a few, Diet Pepsi time.

[ACL1504]

I tested all the lights with an 18v power supply.

It all worked, YEA!

The lights will look much dimmer after the windows with shades and curtains are added.

[ACL1504]

I marked on the base where the wires will feed through the layout.



I drilled a hole in the base and through the layout.