Episode 19 - Installing Cheap and Easy Coach Lighting

In this video, we look at installing some cheap and easy coach lighting, that will work with the coach put on the track in either direction, and won't flicker if it goes over a dirty piece of track.
In the last clip, you can quite clearly see one of of the coaches flicker like crazy, this was a mistake on my part, I forgot to mention that my prototype coach lighting unit also had a much lesser rated capacitor, which makes it far more susceptible to flicker. However the other coach in that clip has a higher rated capacitor, and as you can see, does not flicker.
Download link for diagram (dropbox): bit.ly/2LrTT4U
Shopping list:
5m 12v 5050 Lighting strip
1000uf Capacitors
12v Voltage regulator
W02M Bridge Rectifier Diode
2k ohm Resistor
Electric Paint
DCC Concepts DCF-PS2.0 Spring Pickups
Veroboard
Finewire
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[@niallchurch2679]

Shame camera is too far away to see what you're doing,bye!

[@joeg3770]

nice informative vid

[@johncass7193]

where do you get the electrical paint .

[@SteamWithaScooby]

Hi John, I believe I got the tube I used off a seller on eBay 👍 Thanks for watching 😀

[@TimberSurf]

I would not call your circuit flicker free, when it clearly shows in your video that they flicker going across the points! Unfortunately due to the power required for so many LED's, a standard Electrolytic capacity will not be enough, to give flicker free, without being too big to fit. The voltage regulator does little, unless your DCC booster outputs over 16V, the resistor alone would be sufficient. You also don't mention this is for primarily for DCC (will work, but wont sustain lights on DC).

[@SteamWithaScooby]

Thanks for the comment. I see what you mean and realise that I had forgot to address that in the video, the coach you see flickering was my prototype which I mentioned didn't have a resistor in it hence the brightness, but it also had a far smaller capacitor (about 1/5th of the size of the one used in the unit created in the video) which is why it was flickering across the points. Sorry for the confusion.