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Re: Powered Up adapter cable
Another reply to this must mean it's popular? :) Is there any further update to this? I've been playing around with the Powered Up app's coding features and it would be great to have programmable…
- Alex_Burgess
- 5 yrs ago
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Re: Lighting the Northern Explorer
@Rob Klingberg Have placed an order for some bits and bobs (order #226866791), if you want to include the prototype in the same package :)
- Alex_Burgess
- 5 yrs ago
- Your Creations
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Re: Lighting the Northern Explorer
Cheers Rob, now just to wait for payday next week so I can buy a bunch of stuff :) will let you know once I place the order.
- Alex_Burgess
- 5 yrs ago
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Re: Lighting the Northern Explorer
@Rob Klingberg that would be awesome! I need to pick up a few other bits and bobs in the store anyway (i.e. convert both this and my 60051 passenger train to use Brickstuff's 4-pin connectors…
- Alex_Burgess
- 5 yrs ago
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Re: Lighting the Northern Explorer
@Rob Klingberg at this stage the signal is manually controlled, what you can't see in the video is the breadboard with a switch and mess of wires to bodge it together for this one shot :…
- Alex_Burgess
- 5 yrs ago
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Re: Lighting the Northern Explorer
Thanks Rob! What I forgot to add though though was the video, which features yet another Brickstuff-based creation - a railway signal :)
- Alex_Burgess
- 5 yrs ago
- Your Creations
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Lighting the Northern Explorer

Ever since recreating KiwiRail's Northern Explorer in brick form, I wanted to light up the interior and give it tail lights as well, to match the locomotive (generally) hauling the train.…
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- 5 yrs ago
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Re: 5.2V okay?
@Rob Klingberg will do, appreciate the quick response time! Next step is to work out how to fit the power supply and battery in the generator van, source the PowerBoost (since it's not in stock) and…
- Alex_Burgess
- 6 yrs ago
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5.2V okay?

Quite possibly a silly question but I like to make sure that I'm correct :) I saw the LiPo power source and planned to use this to power interior lights in one of my passenger trains,…
- Alex_Burgess
- updated 6 yrs ago
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Directional locomotive headlights

My first post here :) My primary hobby is trains and naturally this carried over into my LEGO creations, and I wanted working headlights in all of my LEGO trains.…
- Alex_Burgess
- 7 yrs ago
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