Supplemental lighting to Illuminate your display box or dollhouse

     My instructional booklet has an entire section on LEDs.  If you would like to know more about these “light emitting diodes”, I suggest buying a copy of my Electrical Info booklet and reading the section titled:  “Playing with LEDs--The Most Efficient Light Bulb”.     

Information Booklet
$6.00

     LEDs come in a number of different sizes, colors, brightness, and beam angles.  I sell the types I feel work the best when used to illuminate your displays.  LEDs come in different colors but we are interested mostly in the white LEDs.  But even here you have a choice:  Bright White, Cool White or Warm White.  Bright White is closest to outdoor sun light and is the light with a blue tinge.  Warm White LEDs closely matches the warm glow of incandescent lighting. Use warm white for building lighting (More yellow in their color). Cool White LEDs have a cool cast, much like fluorescent lighting (less blue than bright white).  I prefer using the Bright White LED strips as an accent light that fully complements the incandescent lights one will have in their displays. 

4 LED Light Bar (2.5 inches)

Jimmy Landers Victorian Dollhouse used over 300 of these LEDs.  The 8” diameter stain glass has 6, 2-LED bars and there are 2, 6-LED strips hidden above the cove to illuminate the entire Grand Foyer

6 -LED, 6 inch x 1/4 inch LED light bar.  Adhesive back and 6 inch lead wires              $16.75

Flexible Strip LEDs (Reel)

     These LEDs are the least expensive way to purchase a length of lights.  Each ribbon has an adhesive backing making it very easy to install.  These LEDs work with a direct current only, so you will have to use a 12 volt, voltage regulated power supply to be able to use them. REQUIRES A 12 VOLT REGULATED DC POWER SUPPLY. The above light bars work on AC or DC and can be used with any 12 volt power supply. 
    LED’s on a tape roll can be purchased in increments of every 3 LEDs or in a full 5 meter reel.  One can also buy Bright White or Warm White LEDs and in reels that have 30, 60 or 120 LEDs per meter.  I have listed an assortment of the most commonly requested combinations.  All of these reels are 3528 (35mm x 28mm)  size SMD (Surface Mount Device) and not the larger 5050 size.  Dealing with miniatures, the 3528 SMD is the most practical LED to purchase.  All of these LEDs have 120 degree angle of view. 

3528 Flexible Strip LEDs.  60 LEDs per meter

Picture shows the three sizes of Universal LEDs and the Limiting resistor and rectifier needed to work with an AC transformer.  These Universal LEDs will work on 7-19 volts either AC or DC power supplies.