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    • CLF6 posted
    Posted in Model Railways - General Discussions » Austrains DL Class marker lights

    The reason is because the light distributors, which channel the light from the LEDs on the circuit board to the lens of the markers, are a solid piece that have no separation between the red and white LEDs or their corresponding lenses, which results in all four emitting the same colour. Modifying wouldn't be a real simple task, I'd ditch the original distributors and use optic fibre lit with new, better placed LEDs.

    When I eventually get to DCC mine i'll probably just butcher the original thing to prevent light projecting into the red marker lense, and then just disable the red LED. Not fussed about having working reds.

    John

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    Edited 07 Jul 2017 18:16, 4 years ago, edited by CLF6

    The reason is because the light distributors or whatever you want to call them, are a solid piece that have no separation between the red and white LEDs, which results in all four lenses emitting the same colour. Modifying wouldn't be a real simple task, I'd ditch the original distributors and use fibre optics into the separate lenses, likely with new LEDs given they are currently two SMDs squeezed right alongside each other.

    When I eventually get to DCC mine i'll probably just butcher the original thing to prevent light projecting into the red marker lense, and then just disable the red LED. Not fussed about having working reds.

    John