Kato 11-109 chassis lighting

[Scott1984]

Does any one have any experience with adding an LED light to the Kato 11-109 chassis? I would like to add a working headlight to my 3d printed Hon30 locomotives. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!!

[ArtinCA]

Not yet. I bought a few chassis and have a 3D printed shell to put on but no lights yet. Evans Designs has lights listed that may work. I got one of their lighthouse lighting kits for the Bar Mills lighthouse kit.  Looks good and has the horn.

[randgust]

I drilled down through the plastic truck frame #80 .012 to insert a removable piece of .010 brass wire held in by friction, contacting the frame halves.

That gave me the frame electrical leads I needed to set up the dropping resistors and the LED's.   And I can simply pull those wires out with tweezers if I have to get the mechanism apart again.

You can't solder to those frame halves, and there's precious little material to put a screw in either.

[Dwight in Toronto]

Does any one have any experience with adding an LED light to the Kato 11-109 chassis? I would like to add a working headlight to my 3d printed Hon30 locomotives. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!!

I’m guessing that you are working with DC, and not DCC?  I recently added several 0402 LED’s to a Kato 11-108 chassis (headlight in the front, red marker lamp and reversing lights in the rear), but the ESU LokPilot decoder made this easy and straightforward.  I have a few pics of the DCC/LED install, if that’s of any help?

[Lemosteam]

Here's a page that might help to show where pickup and passages could be made:

https://tramfabriek.co.uk/kato-take-a-part.html