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Re: My first train7 project
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Mon, 8 Jan 2007 17:41:39 GMT
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Calum Tsang wrote:
> In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Christopher Masi wrote:
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> > Very cool. I can't wait to see it as part of a layout.
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> Thanks!
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> > The ceiling... are those three big pieces the quarter circle bricks used
> > to make the half pipe in http://guide.lugnet.com/set/3585 ?
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> Yeah, it's a pretty neat piece. Jeff Van Winden used it in his space ship shown
> at BrickFest last year. Unfortunately, it's upside down! :) There's a lot of
> bracketing behind the wall to attach it upsidedown without a seam. Even used
> some (gasp) Technic in there.
When I saw the tile at the junction between the wall and the sealing, I
suspected that it was upside down.
> > I'd love to get a better view of your lights. How many LED's are there,
> > 15? What are the LED's in?
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> There are three yellow, regular style rounded LEDs shoved into the tubes of this
> piece:
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> http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/6192
Oh... I forgot about that part. I wonder if I have any. It is a very
creative solution for a your application.
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> There are five of these in trans-yellow for a total of fifteen LEDs: I
> originally bought five ultra bright white ones, which turned out to be blue.
> They weren't very diffuse and didn't mix with the yellow plastic of the brick
> well.
Too bad the white isn't white.
> The brick is capped with a 1x8 Technic plate--the extra difference in height
> from the top of the LED gives a bit of a gap between the top of the rounded
> brick and the plate--and the LED's leads stick up through the holes of the
> plate. The leads were then wirewrapped. There were two advantages, other than
> the fact Mario prefers wirewrap: Soldering loops of wire going in and out of
> each hole would bring a hot iron really close to Lego plastic and the thin
> wirewrap wires are easy to route around the pieces.
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> LED's were wired in groups of six, the output of a surplus 12VDC wall wart was
> actually something close to 18VDC, so to drive them at 3V we needed to break it
> out. There's two groups of six yellows, and one group of three yellows and
> three reds (in the utility room).
Thanks for the details, I'll save this part of the message just in case
I start wiring things up.
[...]
> Calum
Chris
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| (...) Thanks! (...) Yeah, it's a pretty neat piece. Jeff Van Winden used it in his space ship shown at BrickFest last year. Unfortunately, it's upside down! :) There's a lot of bracketing behind the wall to attach it upsidedown without a seam. Even (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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