Re: Little lights

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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> Thanks, that's cute.  But that is table-top.  Dollhouse scale is 1 inch = 1
> foot; my house is 3 feet tall.  I'm not looking for a Christmas Village; I
> built a house and want to decorate it.  Thnaks for the info anyway (it's
> something to shoot for!), and the NG tip.

I went by the hardware stoe last night to get a key made and they had 
a layout of more than a dozen xmas/winter houses, train station,s 
ferris wheels, etc, most with the fiber optics and multicolored lights 
in them.  I think they use nylon monofilament fishing line for the 
fiber optics, and run them to a central point where the light is.  I 
haven't seen inside one of these yet, I guess I'll have to investigate 
further.  They even had a snow making machine that sits in front of 
the model, dropping flakes on the ground.  It operated off a wall 
wart.  Cute.  But the neatest one was a working model of a roller 
coaster ride, and on the front was the word
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( TORNADO )
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with the letters made up of pinpoint sized red LEDs.  Just about the 
size you were looking for.  There was no doubt they were LEDs.

 
> "Watson A.Name "Watt Sun - the Dark Remover"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Tapper wrote:
> > > I am trying to make lighted Christmas decorations for a dollhouse
> (1/12th
> > > scale). The smallest LEDs I have are too big, and the "microlamps" from
> > > Radio Shack (cute little LED-sized filament bulb) are OK, but they're
> > > expensive (over $1 ea) and I think the heat would be a hazard. I want
> > > strings of lights to go around the edges of the roofs, around Santa and
> > > Reindeer stand-ups, etc, just like on a real house.
> > >
> > > Power reqs aren't important: I can run on batteries, use the DC juice in
> the
> > > house now, or go AC.
> > >
> > > My DREAM is to make "icicle" lights, just like the ones that are so
> popular
> > > now on real houses. I'm fiddling with fiber optic and clear heatshrink
> > > tubing but the fibers are too stiff when they're short: they won't
> dangle
> > > from eaves properly, although horizontal runs are OK.
> > >
> > > Any ideas for sources of strings of bitty little lights? Or fringes of
> fiber
> > > optic?  I want authentic-looking decorations, so I'm trying to create
> > > hundreds of points of light. I get a nice effect from staggered fiber in
> > > clear tubing but it's pretty time-consuming since I'm a beginner.
> >
> > A guy at work sells Avon products.  Last wk he brought in a Christmas
> > village decoration with fiber optic strands all around the eaves of the
> > houses and all over the place.  It's pretty impressive, and looks like
> > there is a color wheel inside that changes the light coming from the
> > strands.  To find it, go to www.avon.com, and in the What Product box at
> > the bottom type in christmas fiber optic and hit go.
> >
> > Local stores are selling something similar, but not a complete village,
> > just a single house or whatever.  Costs something like $13 or so.
> >
> > BTW, do not post to sci.electronics, it is not a valid newsgroup.
> >
> > > Thanks
> > > --Pat


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