Flood lights
Viessmann is best known for its electronic accessories for model railways. Most of their products are too small to be used with scale 1/50, but some of the accessories are suitable for use. One of these is this flood light, originally made for H0 railways, but sized to fit scale 1/50.
![flood1](img/flood1.jpg)
The package contains the light and an -at first sight- multilingual manual. The instructions are however mainly in German, with some hints in English.
![flood2](img/flood2.jpg)
The whole flood light is less than one centimeter large, but has been scaled down with lots of detail. The flood light is mounted on a bracket and can be moved, and the housing features realistic cooling ribbons.
![flood3](img/flood3.jpg)
A diode and a resistor are attached at the end of the wire. According to the manual the light needs a current between 14 and 16 Volts. A LED is used as light source, which reduces power consumptions to a minimum. This makes it possible to connect up to 100 LED lights to one appropriate transformer.
![flood4](img/flood4.jpg)
As mentioned Viessmann advises a current between 14 and 16 volt. The picture below shows the amount of light when connected to a current of just 12 Volts. This picture was made by daylight.
![flood5](img/flood5.jpg)