Railway Crossing - Flashing Warning Lights

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Brendan11

Discussion Starter · Feb 5, 2009

hiya group,

any advice, help or pointers on this one would be geat.

I want to build two flashing warning lights I can put either side of my OO gauges level crossing.

I don't want the ones which are activated by a passing loco, just two simple flashing warning lights powered by a battery or transformer.

I have no knowledge of circuit boards but I'm happy to give it a go if I can get simple instructions on how to do it and the shopping list of parts I'd need.

Alternatively, if a finished product is on the market at a reasonable price please let me know where I can buy one.

many thanks

bren

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dwb

· #2 · Feb 5, 2009

Heathcote electronics do a controller for the lights (LEDs) - details here

That still leaves you to source the actual crossing barriers / light standards hardware

David

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frame69

· #3 · Feb 5, 2009 (Edited by Moderator)

http://www.expressmodels.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss0...;PR=-1&GB=A
Hiya Brendan, give this a try.

These are automatic but should be easy to swap to manual.

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FUNGUS

· #4 · Feb 6, 2009

Thats an interesting idea, Id never thought about warning lights on my level crossing!!

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poliss

· #5 · Feb 6, 2009

If you want to be a liitle more adventurous you could make them to be automatically operated by the trains by following this simple circuit.
http://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/projects/levelc.htm

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BobB

· #6 · Feb 6, 2009

Hi Poliss

What about getting a flasher unit from a car scrap yard, they work on anything from 7.5 to about 40 V smoothed and eratic DC. Might be cheaper !

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poliss

· #7 · Feb 6, 2009

Cheaper than £4.96 BobB? That's the price shown in the kit supplier link.

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Brian Considine

· #8 · Feb 6, 2009

QUOTE (BobB @ 6 Feb 2009, 13:01) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>What about getting a flasher unit from a car scrap yard, they work on anything from 7.5 to about 40 V smoothed and eratic DC. Might be cheaper !

I'd agree with poliss - yes, vehicle flasher units operate on a wide voltage range but they need far more current going through them than a couple of led's to actually flash.

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