Stay Alive Lighting For your Cabeese and Passenger Cars (101)

Folks keep asking me for a cheap and easy circuit to prevent the lights in their cabeese and passenger cars from flickering as they roll along on the track--so here it is! In this video I'll show you a circuit with only 4 parts that will do the job for you. It is simple and easy to put together, and will work with LEDs or small light bulbs. I've added a list of parts below that will work but there is nothing sacred about these, just about anything close will work. You can order parts from All Electronics, Jameco, Digikey, Mouser or just about any other electronic parts supplier so I have not given specific part numbers, just the description and approximate specifications.

I’ll be doing a followup video to show how to install track power pickups and fit this and another circuit into some cars so hang in there. I can’t fit everything into one video or it would be over an hour long! I’ll move the power pickup video ahead and uploaded on Monday so watch for it.

Full wave bridge rectifier 1-1.5 amps, 50-100V
Radial electrolytic capacitor 1000uF, 25V
Trim potentiometer 10K ohm
Resistor 100-150 ohms, 1/4-1/2 watt