Convoy Light Hook Up?

[Jimster]

I’m not sure but I don’t see why it wouldn’t work. These little LEDs don’t require much juice. I didn’t have a small enough connector to use in my tail light socket so I’ve temporarily plugged the light into the smoker socket (no smoker hooked up yet). Now I can turn the convoy light on and off with the transmitter’s smoker switch. Kind of cool.

[jarndice]

Jimster Hi, I have just got my Convoy light from ----
http://www.rctank.de/
I was a bit surprised at just how many small parts are included,
Do you have any tips on the assembly of the unit because I have no idea where to begin
If it is not too challenging I can see me buying half a dozen more units for the early Tiger 1 and the platoon of Panzer 4s in the collection.

[Jimster]

Good morning. jarndice. It was fairly straight forward. First I used a small drill bit to open the little holes on the back plate to allow the two SMD wires to pass through. Then I used the back plate as a template to drill two corresponding holes in the rear hull plate. I cleaned the parts and filed everything smooth and painted the parts. I did not use the little mounting bracket. Then I fed the wires through the back plate and glued the SMD to the inside of the back plate. While that dried I cut the green lense material into two small strips just barely big enough to cover the 4 openings and used white glue to secure. Leave room around the outer edges so that the cover plate will sit down properly. I used CA glue to secure the front onto the back and fed the wires through the drilled holes on the rear end and super glued the assembly in place. Then I hooked up the wires and resistor to a plug using the smoker socket for power. Now I can turn it on or off with my smoker button! Pretty easy kit. Good luck. I also removed the little red reflector as the very first few initial Tigers didn’t have them.

[jarndice]

Jimster my hero
Thank you very much Most helpful.

[RenoirLV]

Do they come disassembled? I bought one from them recently and was ready to install.

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[Jimster]

Looks like this. Not shown is the green film that you cut to fit in behind the rectangular openings.

[RenoirLV]

Oh it's that one. I had a different one. Is this tiger 1? Which period?

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[jarndice]

That's what prompted my question of Jimster as I was expecting a fully assembled item,
Thank goodness for upright members of this Forum coming to the rescue.
I assume you were talking about the later cylindrical convoy lamp.

[Jimster]

Yes, it’s a Tiger 1 built in the early summer of 1942. At least that’s my modeling attempt.

[RenoirLV]

It means there are no mud flaps?

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