Scenery tip

Last night I purchased a string of LED icicle lights at Target. I had purchased a number of strings at Costco a couple of weeks earlier but found that I was short one strand. Unfortunately, Costco was sold out so I stopped at the neighboring Target. The ones at Target were made by Philips while the ones from Costco were made by GE. The GE ones were not as bright and more of a warm white or yellow color tone. The Philips ones were cool or bright white.

This made me think. A strand of 70 lights costs $14.99 at Target. That's about $0.21 per LED. Way cheaper than buying high-intensity LEDs from an electronics store. So if you want to add lights to your slot car, or need to replace burnt out lights you can use these LEDs.

But the other application I thought of is track lighting. A strand of 70 lights runs on 120Vac so all you have to do is extend the wires to each light with some smaller gauge wire (you run a next to nothing current through it), run them through a bendable drinking straw. Paint the straw gray or black and glue them next to the track. You can cover lots of track this way and all you have to do is plug them in an outlet.