LED flasher, chaser for an "Illuminated Tram"

[tramcar trev]

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....


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

 

[Dtsteam]

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.

 

[tramcar trev]

I confess to having something a little less ambitious in mind....

 

[Dtsteam]

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]

 

[tramcar trev]

Maybe one of these on each side would add some "character" especially in english... would be suitable for any occasion...


http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/New-LED-Name-Badge-Tag-Sign-Display-Programmable-Message-moving-scrolling-Red-/121128944263?pt=AU_B_I_Electrical_Test_Equipment&hash=item1c33d90287&_uhb=1