I am almost certain LED bulbs would solve this problem. By the time you burn up 24 incandescents, I expect the LED lighting will have replaced florescent as the standard lighting for homes, and the price will have dropped from the current outrageous prices.
BTW, for the adventurous, if you buy LED lights that are not screw in replacements for incandescent bulbs, and wire them up yourself, the cost is 1/10th of the screw in bulbs. A 3 Watt LED, which I think is about equivalent to a 30 - 40 watt incandescent, is $3. It is way up there on my someday list to get about 10 of these and see how they do as lighting for the layout room. They are dim-able, you can get white, blue, red, orange, any colors you need for changing light colors for night and day operations. Lots of possibilities here. -Michael Eldridge --- In [email protected], "Michael & Linda Marmer" <mlmarmer@...> wrote: > > On my layout I have signals from NJ International which are great, really in > detail design, as I have these in S. they also makes these in O, HO and N. > > My lighting in my train room is fluorescent lights, as I do have UV filters > on the bulbs. > > The signals work when the light sensors in the track get covered over by a > passing train. There are 2 sensors before and 2 after the roadway crossing. > > With the fluorescent lights, the first sensor will not work, only the second > sensor will, as that is right by the crossing, as it acts as the end sensor > for the other direction when a train clears it, for the cross arms to rise up > and lights stop blinking. > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
