Lego City Upgrade: Taking it to the Next Level with LED Lights!

[@BevinsBricks]

My website for LED Lights, instructions, stickers and more. bevinsbricks.com/

[@ChefC03]

Your city is going to be amazing. Your light set up is genius.

[@BevinsBricks]

Thank you so much :)

[@Dishbsmeosisusujsjsjs]

Wow amazing! I really like those functioning traffic lights!

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks, may change them up and use the bigger board eventually but for now leaving it as it :)

[@faworek5172]

Nice

[@Onewiththestud]

Each video you city gets even better

[@BevinsBricks]

Thank you 😊

[@EvansBrickhouse]

I can’t wait to see your city done which I know is a while away but still I can’t wait. The amount of lights will make it look so real. In the dark this looks so amazing. Great work man. This shows how much you really love your hobbies.

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks buddy, Im still not totally sure the direction Im going but having fun with the process.

[@BrickfordCityFire]

Amazing! Every city update is an inspiration!

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks so much next week Ill be adding a bunch of buildings and hopefully get some landscape work done.

[@WhiteRussianDolls]

The end result looks stunning! I can't imagine how satisfied YOU feel!.

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks, I absolutely love all the lighting. I dont know what is more addictive, Lego or the lights lol 😆 😂 🤣

[@darthgbc363]

Awesome. So much fun.

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks

[@BrickerNathan]

I love your updates. Keep them coming. Thank you!

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks and thank you for watching

[@sn0ipe333]

That night scene is beautiful. Genuinely one of the most impressive cities I’ve seen. You producing everything from lights to the tables in-house just adds to my amazement.

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks, being a electrician with 30 years experience helps a lot :). Lego has always been a big passion so I thought why not add my job experience also 😀

[@Libre37]

For a second i thought that was a real city in the thumbnail. The Lego city is amazing.

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks thats the ultimate compliment.

[@Libre37]

@@BevinsBricks no problem

Another vlog just straight killing it ... the magnetic connectors for lighting is pure epic. Keep it up I can't wait to get more updates and to be more frequent!

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks so much I appreciate it. Trying to start posting regular videos again. :)

[@ProcrastinatinZombie]

very nice update. Your lighting is fantastic as usual.

[@BevinsBricks]

Thank you so much

[@rclaxton1651]

Awesome content

[@BevinsBricks]

thanks rob

[@BrickWorldProject]

Great work! :)

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks my friend

[@Cbus24]

Amazing job. Looks great!

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks

[@aronfarsang9999]

It looks so good in the dark!!

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks

[@f.daniellabarbera6786]

Looks great!

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks

[@MayoHosko]

Have you thought about adding some pedestrian lights for the crosswalks?

[@BevinsBricks]

Currently no, not with the controller Im using but maybe with an upgraded one in the future.

[@danielmartin2689]

Another stellar episode!

[@BevinsBricks]

Thank you

[@worthlessdog4830]

I truly believe that you have so far, captured that small town vibe. And I am glad you're going with the new road plates. I have a small city 8x12 , all on Mils plates now. Then I started with your brick roads... OMG! a lot of work, I switched over to the new road plates and after watching this video, I am glad I did.. I'm just now staring to consider lighting it up... and your light system is simply AMAZING! A huge thank you for designing them....

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks so much. I still love my brick built roads as I can do much more detail work with them. But for lighting the new road plates are much more friendly. Especially if you use the building connectors to move your cars around and such for lights.

[@brucec3505]

Hi Daryl! As usual, a very instructive video! I am glad to hear that there will be magnet connectors soon. I want to buy a lot of them. I will check your store frequently. Thanks for the great information! You are a genius. 🦈🦈🦈

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks so much, shark shark 😀 Im hoping to have magnets this weekend as long as my order arrives friday so I can get busy making them up.

[@jamesjackson8625]

It's all turning out amazing Daryl.. Keep up the awesome work!!

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks so much I appreciate it

[@WhiskeyShred]

Awesome progress it’s looking phenomenal!

[@BevinsBricks]

Hey buddy thanks 😊

[@natemr4482]

Great city update Daryl 😁

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks Nate

[@boxicknowsbest9100]

BEVINS BRICKS UPLOADED!!! LET'S GOOOOO!!

[@BevinsBricks]

Lol thanks 😊

[@jonathanderijk5332]

this is awesome!

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks

[@clauswerle]

Great

[@blacktronpavel]

Truly remarkable.

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks

[@olafmesschendorp147]

Recently found this channel, very beautiful building style and original with the lighting!

[@BevinsBricks]

Thank you I appreciate it.

[@The_Brainsturgeon]

Your city in the dark, with all the lights on is gorgeous.

[@BevinsBricks]

Thank you so much

[@The_Brainsturgeon]

@@BevinsBricks last video you asked if you should change the stark white lights on the streets to warm white - I liked the difference in contrast the two different colors gave between the industrial part of the town and the residential part. The difference in the stark/warm whites visually devided the city into two distinct zones.

[@Dinothedinosaur-dv8ix]

love the lights on the cop car

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks Ill make a video soon on how to do that on my other channel bevins bricks world

[@bretuecker]

Looks awesome and loving the updates Daryl

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks my friend, hope you are doing well.

[@bretuecker]

Likewise buddy. I know nothing about lighting, if you were going to light up the boutique hotel or the jazz club what would you use? Of course I'd only want to use your stuff to do it!

[@BevinsBricksWorld]

@bretuecker I appreciate that, its funny you ask that as I am currently trying to develope light kits for both of those sets and 4 others. Hopeing to have something available for sell as a kit form in about 4 to 6 weeks. Im hoping packing kits will make it easier for others to do lighting as well.

[@bretuecker]

@@BevinsBricksWorld Awesome! Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

[@brittlebloo]

The obvious solution to the thick lighting control board is to increase the height of your mils plates to two bricks. I actually starting using mils plates long before they were called “mils” plates. I got the idea by watching early Beyond the Brick episodes and saw how many of the creations were segmented for easy transport. I used two bricks high because I felt it gave me the best flexibility for incorporating features such as river banks. I rarely use just one brick thick mils plates.

[@BevinsBricks]

I started doing 1 brick thick due to the size of my displays. But I agree 2 thick is much better for smaller displays. As it gives you more options for details and depth. This city display is 8x24 feet. With my last city it was 320 sqft. But in short making everything 1 brick helped me with my costs :)

[@matt18385]

About your control board conundrum, could you make a small rolling hill or slope on a base plate with like a lift station or something on top of it? I see small lift stations on corner streets in my home town. They’re small white and green buildings, and usually have a sign saying if red light is on call the town lol.

[@BevinsBricks]

In the past I drill a hole in my table and mounted the board on the underside. But Im trying to make this city simple and easy to modify. To show others lighting doesnt need to be scary. Its funny you talk about the lift stations as I maintain a few of those at my current job, it is a viable option to say the least :) would just require more wire. I may change things up in the future and make the larger board available for sale also, just not sure most would want to use it.

[@dennisverkoeijen]

A lot of work, but what a result. Really nice 👏

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks, hope to add more building and the other half of mainstreet for the next update.

[@dd_zzero6827]

Again, it is great to see the lights but man you have A LOT more patients then I do when it comes to dealing with them. I couldn't do it.

[@BevinsBricks]

Lol, yeah doing lighting takes a lot of time. Some planing also helps as well.

[@lounebricks]

Always absolutely amazing to watch your progress and your videos 😊 even though I have quite a big city myself- yours is one of only 3 I would swap with if I got the chance 😂

[@BevinsBricks]

Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Dont think I would ever swap with anyone as mine is always changing and moving. I have a large amount of skyscrapers also Im trying to decide if I want to start seperate display with.

[@JohnFKennedy1964]

If I were driving brown this street at night I would need “life could be a dream” playing in the radio

[@BevinsBricks]

Haha thats a great song might need to post a video on instagram and do just that

[@grahamcrooks6064]

Loving the traffic lights and I'm very impressed that so many wires went through a technic pin, so I'm curious, what AWG gauge are the wires? That's a lot of wiring in a tight space. The result is terrific! 🙂

[@BevinsBricks]

Yes thats thw advantage of also using the new road plates as it gives you a lot of space to hide things under them. As for the wires they are stranded 34 gauge wire. Its important to use stranded so the wire stays flexiable. :)

[@jasonsbricksin5]

Are you able to light the entire city just with the single power connection you drilled or will you require multiple sections to connect to separate usb plugs?

[@BevinsBricks]

It all depends on the total load as I like to have no more than 1 amp on a circuit. But for reference what I currently have illuminated Im only using .5 amps so I still have roughly 50 leds I can use on this circuit. Ill explain more on all that in the next video.

[@marshallcraft25]

Did you destroy all of your skyscraper’s from the old city? There were a few that I loved

[@BevinsBricks]

Oh no they are sitting on my floor waiting for me to put them back into service. Still debating doing a seperate display for all my large buildings.

[@fancavecollectibles]

could you do a video on how you build your tables what kind of lumber you use the dimensions,etc?

[@BevinsBricks]

Already have one on my original channel here is the link :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5bOdnWqmL5qiNE

[@FelipeVinhao]

The "night vision" of your city is looking amazing! One thing came to my mind after the solution you gave about traffic light cycle last video, switching green and red on each connector. What if another yellow is added to the cycle, after red and before green? It'll look a little more like Europe than USA, but at least it won't need a more complex board. Please just have in mind this idea is coming from someone who doesn't know anything about electricity besides plugging devices into outlets. 😅

[@BevinsBricks]

It would require changing and adding more outputs to the control board. Still working on a smaller more compact solution.

[@FelipeVinhao]

@@BevinsBricks Nice to know. I'm looking for the results, which are already very nice right now.

[@virtualtrainstuff990]

This looks so great! Question will you or do you also have tri light LED lights that can be used for making railroad signals? That would be another great thing to have as that is something I'd like to make some lit and working Railroad Signals

[@BevinsBricks]

I recommend watching my last city update as I show how I do my working signals. You see them in the end of this video as well :)

[@RenSugiura]

Sorry no offence, I just found it funny your effort to make the traffic light swing to look natural while in my country (Portugal) non of our traffic lights swing making it very unnatural for me xD I know you're making an American style, I just found it funny and interesting. I love your lego city keep up with the good work.

[@BevinsBricks]

Things are different everywhere :)

[@Ethwolf-Industry]

I want to see a Lego city using magnorail

[@BevinsBricks]

In another city maybe but this is being done to have a small town feel and small towns dont have monorails 😀

[@jonlong36]

How much would it be for the section you have lit up?

[@BevinsBricks]

How much would what be ? If you mean my city its not for sale.

[@countrabricksbuildcraze8916]

Hi man. Yeer I can emadgen trying to do lighting with so Manny wire s at once. And if not haveing them colour coded. U would have to have the wire s siting in diffrent spots and grab them as you do each colour of. them. To not get confused ..so like U seed best way .is mark each wire s .colour coded . 😊👌💥

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks, yes it would get confusing very fast without the color coding. Wanted to share that little trick with others so if they want to attempt anything like this :).

[@hefellump1]

Darryl is the very definition of the competent white man who keeps America running.God bless this man

[@BevinsBricks]

Lol thanks, I always reffered to a move from when I was a kid as they spelled my name the same D.A.R.Y.L. = data anylizing robot youth lifeform 🤣 deffinately not youth anymore though.

[@pbosche]

Ugh. I don’t know if I’m inspired or intimidated. I’ve just started my table/city and would love to do it right (like this) from the beginning but I fear knowledge and cash will definitely prevent me from doing this from the beginning. I’m trying to light most everything. I suspect I’m going to have 150 aaa batteries and 50 battery boxes cluttering up the whole city 🤣

[@BevinsBricks]

The biggest thing is to take your time and enjoy the hobby :). As for lighting I hate the big sloppy mess that comes with using all the big companies lighting kits. Which was why I started my own lighting business and invented the magnetic mils connectors. As it stream lines the entire process. There are other more affordable options as well and I even have a new option I will be releasing in the next 2 weeks. For a lot of good information I recommend my other channel bevins bricks world as I get much more involved in explaning things :)

[@pbosche]

@@BevinsBricks oh yes, already sub’d

[@Nphen]

@@pbosche If you have a cordless drill battery, you can get USB adapters for them. My Hercules adapter (Harbor Freight) only has 2 USB ports, but perhaps via USB hubs you could power 8 to 12 USB lighting power connectors from one drill battery. I don't know how many lights each of those USB connections can power, but I'd imagine several dozen. You could have the USB hubs in buildings and have the tiny wires & magnetic connectors carry power underneath across different MILS plates. Probably power half your town on 1 drill battery.

[@BevinsBricks]

With usb power supplies its usually 1.5 amps which equates roughly yo 150 leds per port. I always tell everyone to stay at 100 though