Sergey Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 O-key! Finally, the main goal is to get what you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towman1271 Posted March 28, 2018 Author Share Posted March 28, 2018 7 hours ago, Sergey said: O-key! Finally, the main goal is to get what you want. i sincerely hope i didn't offend you with my comment. I was on my way out for work & made a quick reply. This is my first time using lighting & still working the bugs out. I would love to read your article to learn more. I consider you one of our top builders on this site& have learned from your builds. As a matter of fact i plan on doing The Love Machine from Convoy soon & will use yours to learn from. Mine won't go to the detail level of yours though. But back to the topic, Just wanted to apologize if i upset you. I will take more time when i comment in the future! Always look forward to your builds also! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towman1271 Posted April 1, 2018 Author Share Posted April 1, 2018 (edited) Spent most of the Easter weekend working on the tail end of this truck. Finished the step bumper and lights. Need to add some of the plumbing. This truck has a Newton dump in each of the rear compartments, plus a round dump on the rear that needs completed yet! Edited April 1, 2018 by towman1271 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergey Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 On 28.03.2018 at 9:25 PM, towman1271 said: i sincerely hope i didn't offend you with my comment. ....Just wanted to apologize if i upset you. I will take more time when i comment in the future! That's O-key! Nothing to appologize for. Do you plan to use more LEDs? I guess the power source is 9V battery and you have 2 parallel circuits? By the way, what is Newton dump? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
extmcdriver Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 Amazing work!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towman1271 Posted April 2, 2018 Author Share Posted April 2, 2018 (edited) 3 hours ago, Sergey said: That's O-key! Nothing to appologize for. Do you plan to use more LEDs? I guess the power source is 9V battery and you have 2 parallel circuits? By the way, what is Newton dump? The lights on the tank will be led's also & will run off a 9v. As for a Newton dump valve! It is a manual valve we use on fire tankers as a quick release to rapidly drain water to a portable tank. We live in a very rural area where water is trucked to house fires, dumped quickly in these portable tanks so fire engines can pump it on the fire. I downloaded two pics to show you. The first is a truck dumping into the portable tank, the second is truck similar to ours were to valve is hidden in a side compartment! The truck i am building halls 2500 gallons of water, or approx. 9500 liters Edited April 2, 2018 by towman1271 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergey Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 (edited) 17 hours ago, towman1271 said: The lights on the tank will be led's also & will run off a 9v. As for a Newton dump valve! It is a manual valve we use on fire tankers as a quick release to rapidly drain water to a portable tank. We live in a very rural area where water is trucked to house fires, dumped quickly in these portable tanks so fire engines can pump it on the fire. I see. You must know: 9V battery have small capacity and as more parallel circuits you make, as short their working time. This power source is O-key for photo session, but not for exhibition. I guess battery have 0,6-0,8 A/h. Each LED circuit eat 0,02 A. If you have 1 circuit, lights will work about 30-40 hours. If 2 circuits - about 15-20 hours. I guess your white LEDs need 3V - each, and red one - about 1,7V. I would change white emergancy light for blue LED. It usually needs 2-3V. I had both voltages blue LEDs. Probably tank light will be red? I don't know how much space you have for power source? And how much LEDs wiil tank have? And main question: how long you want to lights work? By the way, nice looking tank! Edited April 3, 2018 by Sergey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towman1271 Posted April 4, 2018 Author Share Posted April 4, 2018 23 hours ago, Sergey said: I see. You must know: 9V battery have small capacity and as more parallel circuits you make, as short their working time. This power source is O-key for photo session, but not for exhibition. I guess battery have 0,6-0,8 A/h. Each LED circuit eat 0,02 A. If you have 1 circuit, lights will work about 30-40 hours. If 2 circuits - about 15-20 hours. I guess your white LEDs need 3V - each, and red one - about 1,7V. I would change white emergancy light for blue LED. It usually needs 2-3V. I had both voltages blue LEDs. Probably tank light will be red? I don't know how much space you have for power source? And how much LEDs wiil tank have? And main question: how long you want to lights work? By the way, nice looking tank! I won't really be using the LEDs for any real length of time. But are you suggesting I use multiple batteries on separate circuits. I would have space on each side of the tank, behind the compartment area? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergey Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Well, I would first determin: how many circuits it will be? And how many LEDs and which will have each circuit? I prefer each circuit to have equal summary voltage drop to all LEDs light with same brightness. For example: 1-st circuit = 3V+3V+1,7V = 7,7V + 40 ohm additional resistor 2-nd circuit = 3V+1,7V+1,7V+1,7V = 8,1V +20 ohm additional resistor 3-rd circuit = 1,7V+1,7V+1,7V+1,7V+1,7V = 8,5V You can use 1 battery. It's up to you. Besides you already finished front lights and you don't need lights working long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towman1271 Posted April 7, 2018 Author Share Posted April 7, 2018 Have all lights and siren hooked up..took sergey's advice and ran 2 separate circuits for front and rear. Have to complete pump panel, discharges and intakes. Decal it and call her done. See how much longer that takes. VID_20180407_082827194.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towman1271 Posted April 7, 2018 Author Share Posted April 7, 2018 (edited) http://youtube.com/watch?v=C0joPhvutgA Edited April 7, 2018 by towman1271 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergey Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 Oh, didn't know they are flashing. You have done it your self, or used ready circuit board? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towman1271 Posted April 7, 2018 Author Share Posted April 7, 2018 They come with resistors already in the wiring to make the flash.. makes it easy ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergey Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 (edited) I've made my own circuit board for flashing lights in the last Custombilt 379 project. Anyway - Great work! You right, it make things easy. Where have you got that flashing system from? Edited April 9, 2018 by Sergey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towman1271 Posted April 9, 2018 Author Share Posted April 9, 2018 (edited) 6 hours ago, Sergey said: I've made my own circuit board for flashing lights in the last Custombilt 379 project. Anyway - Great work! You right, it make things easy. Where have you got that flashing system from? http://modeltrainsoftware.com Edited April 9, 2018 by towman1271 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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