led for houses?

[bam290]

Hello
i am going to use some little led lights on my houses to make a Christmas layout what size to i need?and how do i tie them all in to one?
Thanks

 

[bam290]

any one????

 

[waltr]

This should help:
http://www.instructables.com/id/LEDs-for-Beginners/

Then google will help more.

 

[Rico]

If you'rea talking about Xmas lights, try fiber optics with colored lenses.

 

[bam290]

like to put them on the houses to look like xmas lights

 

[Rico]

That would be the way to go then.
Drill small holes where you want the "bulbs" then run the fiber optics thru and to your bulb.
Someone once used thicker fishing line, worked slick!

 

[bam290]

where do you buy this stuff?

 

[sd50f]

In Canada, we have fiber optic "decorations" for sale at the dollar store. Cost about $1.50 and you get a bulb and a huge amount of fiber optics sticking out of the top. I'm sure they're available in the United States as well.

Good luck finding what you need.

timothy dineen

 

[bam290]

o went to the hobby shop and got some led doll house multicolored Christmas lights for $2 they look great

 

[Dougget]

Hi,
I think even small 2mm or 3mm LED's would be too big for holiday lights.

I plan to use LED's inside my structures to light them. A single 3mm unit can be positioned and hidden to light a floor of a building or house.

For christmas or holiday decorations, the fiber optics sound like a better choice. I've seen them with motorized multi-color filters too, so the lights would look animated. That would be cool.

Doug

 

[bam290]

i got 1.8 mm leds

 

[stan2004]

I've bought plastic fiber by the foot here in the standard sizes 0.25mm, 0.5mm, etc..

http://www.fiberopticproducts.com/Unjacketed.htm

Some craft stores or plastic shops (e.g., Tap Plastics) sell fiber bundles for less than $1/foot which would have several dozen 0.25mm strands. 0.25mm would be just about right to model 1" bulbs on an HO house. 0.25mm fiber is very easy to work with and bend and bundle so a single bulb or LED can illuminate many points of light. If modeling a multi-colored strand I'd think just one bulb/LED of each color and bundling would be all you need.

When using a typical 3mm or 5mm LED I put a short piece of black heat shrink over the LED to form an opaque pipe into which I feed the fiber bundle. But be careful about heat guns near thin plastic fiber as they will deform.