ZFRANK
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Post by ZFRANK on Aug 13, 2012 15:05:23 GMT -5
Hi all,
I have changed the cold white color of the. LED's of my D&RGW 3002 GP30 into warm white, simply by painting Tamiya x26 (tranparent orange) over the LED's. Will try to catch the result in a short film later.
Regards, Frank
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Post by markm on Aug 13, 2012 16:31:01 GMT -5
Frank, The Tamiya orange works well, I just wish it weren't so hard to get. The cellophane (gelatin) photo filters work well too, if I remember its a Wratten #26. At this point I'm waiting to see what comes out on the Digitrax DCC board.
Mark
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ZFRANK
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Post by ZFRANK on Aug 14, 2012 12:40:11 GMT -5
Mark and all,
I have picked up the Tamiya X26 in an hobby shop for RC models (boats, planes and cars). It is not a typical color to be used for model trains.
See next, the result on youtube:
/Frank
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Post by Ztrains on Aug 15, 2012 21:16:26 GMT -5
That really makes a huge difference, thanks for the video! John www.ztrains.com
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Post by ztrack on Aug 15, 2012 23:20:00 GMT -5
I agree. Wow what a difference.
Rob
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Post by Rob Albritton on Aug 23, 2012 19:36:25 GMT -5
Also I think Digitrax used orange LEDs for their DCC board (at least I don't think they are white!)
We will play with headlight color for the next run of GP30.
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ZFRANK
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Post by ZFRANK on Aug 25, 2012 15:06:55 GMT -5
Could be, I' ll guess these are the same as MTL uses. But these LEDs just look orange, these are white light LEDs with an orange filter. /Frank
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