LED flasher, chaser for an "Illuminated Tram"

tramcar trev

tramcar trev

all manner of mechanical apparatus...
Maybe not this Xmas but next... I'm going to build an "Illuminated Tram" that could be used for various festive occasions. They were not common in Australia but there were a few especially on the smaller tramways....
Using this I could use 120 X 1.8mm leds in assorted colours.
Sounds like yet another project for winter.... :o


http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/RC-LED-Lights-Kit-Strobe-Flash-Chaser-4-channel-controller-/261335364353?pt=UK_ToysGames_ModelKits_ModelKits_JN&hash=item3cd8cd3301&_uhb=1


and LED's for the project;


http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/100-x-1-8mm-Mixed-color-LEDs-Free-Resistors-LED1-8-/270713931321?pt=AU_Toys_Hobbies_Model_Railways&hash=item3f07cec639&_uhb=1
 
What a great idea Trev...


Having been bought up in Blackpool, I'm definitely a big fan of illuminated trams.


I did see this book on my travels around the internet, but I have to say its probably the least appealing tram book I've seen in a long while...
http://www.holisticpage.com.au/melbournes-colourful-trams-illuminated-advertising-trams-in-the-streetscape-of-melbourne-a-photographic-profile-from-the-1970s-david-clark/9781921122163


Now, this is a proper job....
http://www.sct61.org.uk/bp762b


Me and a mate had chartered the Western Train a couple of months before this picture was taken in 1982, and I never rode it again until 2012 until work hired the rebuilt one for an evening trip.
 
I confess to having something a little less ambitious in mind....
 
Aw shucks mate, I was looking forward to that ;)
[SIZE=78%]The Blackpool trams are a tourist attraction to be fair, but Blackpool also had a 'civic' illuminated car, which was used for fund-raising and advertising by the council. I'm assuming that's more the thing you had in mind, with strings of lights along the body work ?


Go fer it Trev, you know it makes sense.....[/SIZE]
 
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