Hi Grendels,
I stumbled on this site whilst watching your videos on youtube. I recently bought myself the Pocher Aventador 1:8 and plan to add lights to this model. I understand a fair bit of your explanations but given that I am an absolute noob at electronics I thought I’d ask for your assistance.
I’ve tried finding an evening course that explains this stuff but these are full blown electronics courses over several months and very expensive.
Unfortunately there are no longer shops in the Netherlands similar to “radio shack†where I can ask for help.
One of the videos I saw was a scale 1:18 diecast car and the guy had a simple remote control device with simple buttons labeled 1-12 (I believe, couldnt see the whole device) and when he pushed a button the indicator lights would turn on/off/left/right/all. Push anothe button and the main lights or park lights would light up, he even had fog front/rear lights and I suspect he used a reed switch to operate lights when the doors were opened.
So given this long intro: where I fail to understand your videos is when you use chips like in the 4060 or 555 connection. Fist of all I dont understand the terminology but I also dont understand if these black “lego†blocks work straight away when you plug them in to the breadboard or whether there’s some fancy programming going on behind the scenes on a computer. I hope you can expand a bit on this.
Question 2: I saw another video where a guy was adding LED lights (SMDs) to streetlights used to light a railroad diorama. He used extremely thin wires to connect to SMD lights. He mentioned this was insulated wire used to make electro magnets.
In your videos you use ‘normal’ electrical wire. I dont have the luxury to use “thick†wires and I dont plan to use the lights much once installed. If I were to opt for this ultra thin coated wire will I be getting in to trouble?