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NEW: Warm White LEDs

Our new Warm White LEDs glow with a more traditional "yellowish" hue more similar to incandescent blubs, rather than the more bluish or "cool" light generated by a LED.  It's like a warm fuzzy sweater - only in an A/C Ready bulb.

Added 12/08: Using a warm white 4 in 1 LED in my MTH tinplate 260E engine!  Note the wonderful yellowish incandescent-style glow in the picture below:

While unpacking and cleaning off our tinplate train that we use under the Christmas tree, I accidently bumped the lever that opens the engine's headlamp compartment.  Looking at the screw base large globe incandescent I couldn't help but think, "I need an LED !".  Remembering one of our customer's praise of our 4-n-1 LEDs in the horizontal position as a engine lamp, I decided to try a warm white 4LED screw base.  The above picture shows the wonderful result; the below pic shows the installation:

I accomplished a couple important things:

1) Very good illumination at lower voltages

Because I'm running this engine in traditional mode with a 75W transformer, I don't need a lot of "juice" to achieve an acceptable speed circling the tree.  That means the incandescent bulb typically isn't very bright.   I put a meter on it and we're running at only 4.14 VAC on average, so I selected a 4 in 1 LED so to generate more light off a single bulb.

2) Achieve a traditional "yellowish" glow.

I selected our new "warm white" LED.  With this train set I'm going for an old fashioned tinplate look, a bluish white LED wouldn't look authentic enough.

 

Warm White installed in a Williams' caboose:

The above picture shows our LED-BI-WW, which is a traditional bayonet base, inverted lens (light is forced our the sides) in warm white.  The new warm whites also are available in focus, 4 in one, and frosted.

The above picture just shows the LEDs not illuminated.

 

 

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