I would not call your circuit flicker free, when it clearly shows in your video that they flicker going across the points! Unfortunately due to the power required for so many LED's, a standard Electrolytic capacity will not be enough, to give flicker free, without being too big to fit. The voltage regulator does little, unless your DCC booster outputs over 16V, the resistor alone would be sufficient. You also don't mention this is for primarily for DCC (will work, but wont sustain lights on DC).
Thanks for the comment. I see what you mean and realise that I had forgot to address that in the video, the coach you see flickering was my prototype which I mentioned didn't have a resistor in it hence the brightness, but it also had a far smaller capacitor (about 1/5th of the size of the one used in the unit created in the video) which is why it was flickering across the points. Sorry for the confusion.
nice informative vid
where do you get the electrical paint .
Hi John, I believe I got the tube I used off a seller on eBay 👍 Thanks for watching 😀
Shame camera is too far away to see what you're doing,bye!
I would not call your circuit flicker free, when it clearly shows in your video that they flicker going across the points! Unfortunately due to the power required for so many LED's, a standard Electrolytic capacity will not be enough, to give flicker free, without being too big to fit. The voltage regulator does little, unless your DCC booster outputs over 16V, the resistor alone would be sufficient. You also don't mention this is for primarily for DCC (will work, but wont sustain lights on DC).
Thanks for the comment. I see what you mean and realise that I had forgot to address that in the video, the coach you see flickering was my prototype which I mentioned didn't have a resistor in it hence the brightness, but it also had a far smaller capacitor (about 1/5th of the size of the one used in the unit created in the video) which is why it was flickering across the points. Sorry for the confusion.