Model Train Mars light Or Heartbeat Effect LED

Package arrived quickly, fantastic products, worked as stated, easy to use, have multiple parallel projects W-I-P, you are my "Go-To" folks ....THANK YOU !!!!!

I was looking for a halogen effect for a 1950's fire truck lightbar I had made. With LED being a distinct on/off, this gave me the effect I was looking for. Not exactly perfect to real life halogen (nor is it made to be or advertised to be this), but the quality itself is great, and made me happy with what I was trying to recreate! If I were to be trying to recreate a Mars, this is the one to get! Never been upset with this company!

I built an HO scale Dummy Locomotive and gave it the same paint scheme as the powered locomotive.To the dummy locomotive I added battery power to run (AA Battery pack) the lights. I used two battery packs so I could run the lights independently of each other. Having 2 battery packs also added some needed weight to the locomotive.One light, being a Mars light is controlled with a touch sensor. The main head is controlled with a remote control.I can
control the brightness of the headlight with 4 settings. I love it! My project turned out well thank's to the fine people at Evan Designs. They had everything I needed and, was more than happy to answer my questions. Great company to do business with.

I had already designed a 555 circuit and was going to build a tiny PCB to do the same thing that the Evan Designs mars circuit does. But it’s a PITA dealing w such tiny parts. Plus the price of the Evan Designs mars led is attractive enough that it wasn’t worth my time to pursue building my own PCB.

I'll start this review as more of a suggestion then a review, due to the fact that these products are top notch. My 1st...suggestion is that you include the business card which was in my order I received as this in my opinion, was a very!! useful tool in determining the appropriate size in ordering the proper scale item to be used with. As this tool was not available while visiting your site when determining size for my application of your product.
2nd...suggestion; it's my belief that if you were to place some of these products for sale on some the websites such as eBay or others of that nature, your business would BOOM!! as it's taken me forever to find the specific item's ie; mars or gyra light's for model railroading especially in the scales of N & HO gauge...
thx an looking forward to doing business again soon.

Nice, easy to install and use. Wish the leads were a bit more robust, but it's been working well.

For some reason the light quit working after a few minutes. For 17 bucks I expected more

If your are running DC for control, this is a great way to add a mars light to your locomotive. But you can use it with DCC as well if your decoder doesnt have enough functions. Perfect brightness and light effects.

The Evan Designs Mars Light simulator does an excellent job of representing the double pulse of the prototype Mars Light, at a reasonable price. particularly good is the use of regular sheathed wire rather than coated wire, making connections both easy and less likely to have a short. Great product.

I obtained several 5 mm Warm White Mars Light LEDs, which work nicely in HO scale F/E/ PA noses. I also obtained 1.8 mm Red Mars Light LEDs for use in HO passenger car tailgates. In addition I obtained a multi color changing LED to see if I can replicate the color changing lighting over the bar section of my HO SP Tavern Car—haven’t gotten to that yet! All of these Evans products are not only very realistic but also economically priced—highly recommended.