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Hi guys I wonder if anyone can help me and UPNICK.
We have managed to get some dummy chassis that Upnick is converting some for my locos and some for his layout.
I was wanting to put some lights in my N gauge dummy class 37 and 47 locos without having power coming from the tracks and I was thinking of using a 9 volt battery inside of the chassis to power some grain of wheat bulbs. But when it has been checked the battery would be way too big to fit into the chassis.
I want the front lights of the loco to light up if it is stood outside of my layout and I was wondering if there is anyway of using some kind of battery in the chassis to put power to the bulbs.
The 2nd part of my question is could I use 2 hearing aid batteries somehow stored in my loco chassis and if so would the batteries supply enough power to make the headlights on the loco shine bright enough or would I need to find a small but more powerful battery that would fit in an n gauge chassis about the same size as a class 37 chassis but with no motor in it.
I am wanting the locos as dummies so that I could store them as if on a scrapline but if the mood took me be able to put them outside of the depot as they used tick over switched on in the olden days before money was the master in prototypical land.
Any suggestions or tips would be greatfull.
We have managed to get some dummy chassis that Upnick is converting some for my locos and some for his layout.
I was wanting to put some lights in my N gauge dummy class 37 and 47 locos without having power coming from the tracks and I was thinking of using a 9 volt battery inside of the chassis to power some grain of wheat bulbs. But when it has been checked the battery would be way too big to fit into the chassis.
I want the front lights of the loco to light up if it is stood outside of my layout and I was wondering if there is anyway of using some kind of battery in the chassis to put power to the bulbs.
The 2nd part of my question is could I use 2 hearing aid batteries somehow stored in my loco chassis and if so would the batteries supply enough power to make the headlights on the loco shine bright enough or would I need to find a small but more powerful battery that would fit in an n gauge chassis about the same size as a class 37 chassis but with no motor in it.
I am wanting the locos as dummies so that I could store them as if on a scrapline but if the mood took me be able to put them outside of the depot as they used tick over switched on in the olden days before money was the master in prototypical land.
Any suggestions or tips would be greatfull.