Comtrain goes H0! H0! H0!: 03/29/20

2020/03/29

2020_03_29 Playing with lighting

2020_03_29 Graeme helped me fit more lighting

As before, we used 3M backing to secure strips of Led's to aluminium angle. The angle was very short on one side which tilted the throw of light about 15 deg.
The 3M from China is not reliable, so we secured the strips with hot glue, every foot or so.
Be careful not to heat up the leds, because they are constructed with low melt solder and hot glue can "unglue" them from strip. Ask me how I know?

A Jaycar hot glue gun using 11mm glue sticks was a great improvement on the cheap reject type I was using.

Join the strips together, and as I needed 10 m of strips we added the power to the middle where we joined the strips together

With dimmers installed, I can vary the light to simulate early morning, midday or afternoon.

NOTE BLOGGER had a fit and lost the pictures (about a week after posting)
I have added those I could find and lumped the rest together.

*Both strips on full output.

*both full on.

*Just the warm white on full.

*Full on warm white. Early morning?

*Just room lighting
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*Just full white.

*Again full white.

*Both strips full on. The warm white softens it just enough, I think.

*Again same as above.

Thanks Graeme, glad to see a friend, and I guess after tonight, that will be the end of visits, till we find out what really is happening in this strange world of ours.
Thankfully, I have plenty to keep me occupied. AS I hope you all do too. Stay healthy my friends.
Cheers
Rod

About my Railway

The Australian National Railways was established by the Whitlam Federal Government following a commitment made in the 1972 election to invite the states to hand over their railway systems to the federal government. In July 1975 Australian National Railways was formed taking over the operations of the federal government owned Commonwealth Railways.

The state governments of South Australia and Tasmania whose railway systems were deeply in debt, accepted. During the next two years discussions between these two states and the federal government resulted in a number of staffing and operating agreements being made that resulted in all South Australian Railways services (except for the Adelaide metropolitan passenger network) and all Tasmanian Government Railways services transferring to Australian National Railway in March 1978, the latter being re-branded AN Tasrail.

At first Victoria declined to hand over its Railways, however a change of Government after Bolte retired meant Victoria could be absorbed into AN as well.
Despite doing everything they could to tarnish ALP leader Clyde Holding, The ALP were able to defeat Hamer who was seen to be just another Bolte, doing more of the same into the future.

Clyde Holding handed over Victorian Railways to the Commonwealth where it prospered as a division of AN retaining its VR colours until later when AN decided to re-brand it as V/Line.

My Railway thus reflects what could have been ;)
And of course National Rail (Pacific National) has no place in my little scenario. Australian National was never privatised and has continually taken East Coast loads off the Highways. As well many branch lines were upgraded and Whitlam's policy of decentralisation actually moved employment to towns with a ready pool of workers, which of course took the pressure of Melbourne which was starting to expand as bush kids moved away from the Country in search of education and employment ( just as Gough Whitlam envisaged it would do)
Rod Young

Comtrain goes H0! H0! H0!

2020/03/29

2020_03_29 Playing with lighting

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