Marklin How To: Cheap LED Passenger Car interior lighting

Install your own lighting into Marklin passenger cars. So much cheaper than Marklin, and just as good. Even better, I think. You still have to use the Marklin couplers and current thing for the coupler. Otherwise it is all ebay or Amazon parts and fun too. You have to buy the marklin draw bar coupler set 7319 for the car-to-car current transfer, but the rest of it is only about 2.50 in parts. LEDS - 70 cents. Capacitor - 25 cents. Rectifier - 25 cents. Resistor - 1 cent. Heat shrink tubing - 10 cents. Wheel current collector - 1.25. Wire - you probably have that lying around. Crimp on terminal - 10 cents (or solder).

[@orinbay]

Thank you for your very informative video. Plus I enjoyed your choice of Baroque music!!

[@billyrichmond4472]

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[@MikesProjectsandHobbiesMC]

Are your LEDs the 12 volt units? I have everything I need to do this but was concerned the LEDs might draw to much power from the DCC system.

[@markfedo1]

Congratulations on the video! Could you tell me the technical specifications of the rectifier? Thanks.

[@bohemianh]

Well done video, looks realistic with lights

[@Wolfyjinny]

I don't understand why you cut and wired to the middle of the strip?

[@stevo22222]

Thanks for posting this, it should come in real handy as I'll be doing this for the first time soon. Before I go out and buy the materials I just wanted to check one thing: because of the bridge rectifier this set up will work on C - Track as well, even though it is AC, right?

[@kevintregunna]

Great video liked and subscribed cheers Kevin

[@stephenwhipple7814]

I forgot to say the LEDs come in rolls of 300 for about 14 dollars on amazon or 7 dollars on ebay. You just cut off how many you need for each car. Search on key words like these: "5 Meter Reel Warm White 3100K Flexible LED Ribbon 300 LEDs"

[@FernandoTorres-en1zf]

this sistema is to ddc or dc? tanks great video!!!

[@stephenwhipple7814]

Hi this is for the Marklin AC system. It works on the analog AC, or the digital AC from the Central Station.

[@FernandoTorres-en1zf]

tanks freind!!! best regards from monterrey!

[@walidkhier5640]

Fernando Torres DCC is basically a square wave DC current, so the same principle applies.

[@FernandoTorres-en1zf]

tanks friend great answer!!! best regards

[@walidkhier5640]

AC not DC..... sorry

[@Gailkull]

Do your lights dim after a time?

[@stephenwhipple7814]

I have not noticed that they dim. I guess they could, depending on the quality of the LEDs or the capacitor.

[@walidkhier5640]

Why do you need a rectifier if you are using LED for lightening? an LED is a half wave rectifier by itself. I do not think the human eye will notice the flickering at 50 Hz -or whatever Märklin is using.

[@MikesProjectsandHobbiesMC]

Prevents the capacitor from feeding power back to the track.

[@MisterStreamliner]

This would've been so much easier to understand if you would've verbally explained it.

[@Cloudman572]

He could verbally explain it but do you understand Swedish?

[@marklinzeit]

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[@jamesmarshall-sadler8081]

this video moves to fast and is hard to follow because you can't read and watch at the same time, a slower more explanation video would be nice i was pausing every 2-5 sec to see what was going on

[@daimlerking44]

das ist zu schnell!

[@marklinzeit]

daimlerking44 Sorry it is too fast. You could pause the video I guess. I made it fast since I thought the other videos I watched were often so slow and boring.