8a.3 Streetlights
On a whim one afternoon I decided to try an experiment: solder leads to an 0402 warm white SMD LED—specifically, solder a piece of brass rod to one terminal, and ultra-fine magnet wire to the other, to make an old incandescent streetlight. I actually chuckled as I hooked up the test power supply, wondering why I even tried. Then, if I hadn't seen the outcome with my own eyes (and had two witnesses), I wouldn't have believed I could do it. But there it was, glowing away. So I made a second just to be sure it wasn't a fluke, and it wasn't. The shade, incidentally, is a Tichy HO Scale lampshade, which looks much better in this application than one of their N Scale lampshades.
The bottom of the poles are soldered to coaxial plugs, so they're removable.
I've subsequently removed the curved brackets so they're more like the light in the reference image.
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