Last night our Operations group was at my house and did our very first ops session (more on that later).  One of the members, Bob W is an excellent photographer and stayed after the rest of the guys left to take some pictures.  Among the pictures he took were a number of shots of Buck & Loretta's place taken in the dark - and when I say dark - we turned all of the lights off in the room!  Here are the shots:

There have been several posts here and on other forums about the use of LED strips for overall layout lighting.  In general those who try it seem to be having reasonable results, though some have felt it necessary to augment it with more conventional devices in some way, e.g. for spot effects.  With the higher luminosity varieties (5050s), low power consumption, a low amount of waste heat and a low and easily concealed profile, LEDs offer a lot of advantages.

I have a DC bus on my layout that tests out at 13.3 volts.  I added a 2200uf 25 volt filter capacitor across the + and - terminals, and this seems to be causing the DV voltage to jump to 19 volts.  

Can someone tell me what might cause this?  Am I better off removing the cap?  I'm going to be running a bunch of led's off this bus, and they are very sensetive to voltage.

Any input would be appreciated.

Thanks,

John

Well this week our DCC Specialities PSX-AR Auto reverser arrived, and it has already been installed on the JL&T under the centre peninsula.

The PSX-AR comes with very good instructions for installation & additional add ons...