Today, I added some lighting to my two apartment flats.
First I added some fiber pitch filaments for the stairway platform lighting after heat bulging the ends and heat bending them 90 degrees on the very ends. Note the black glue holing them in place. I bought black hot melt glue sticks from Hobby Lobby, and I am finding lots of uses as a light seep blocker where lighting is concerned.
After I routed the four strands, I shrink wrapped them together, and heat bulged all four, for improved light pickup.
Next I made a little 3v battery holder to test the LED’s and the lights. The LED on the holder is from a battery operated Christmas strand of 0402’s encased in blobs of resin.
Here is a shot of the platform lights. The 3v battery is not very bright, but the LED will be much brighter after I use a wall ward and appropriate resistors.
On the back of the grey apartments, I decided to light the first floor apartment by encasing the room in styrene, and adding a pre-wired 0201 LED in a hole in the ceiling, centered on the large window. I also added a divider between the two windows before I buttoned up the back. Not shown is aluminum duct tape over the white styrene to eliminate bleed.
Here is the corner apartment dweller who will later be looking out under the elevated trusses at the back of the hot rod garage.
A dark pic with the apartment lit. Note this is a single 0201 LED on 3 volts! Note the divider bleed allows just a bit of light into the next room seen through the small window on the right.
