Aftermarket LED lighting in LEGO scenes?

[Soundmanred]

I searched for topics using "lighting" and it came back with all photography threads, and "LED" had no results.

I know LEGO sells the lighting kit (two lights and a wire that connects to a power source), but how many of you use LEDs and battery packs to achieve the same effect? I also had the old LEGO lights (colored translucent blocks with "Fire" or "Police" on them, but they used bulbs and were cumbersome to power.

As someone knowledgeable in electronics, it seems to be the next step after building a LEGO construction is to add lights!

I have been experimenting the last few days with LEDs and different translucent LEGO pieces with some nice results. The blue and orange "flame" pieces are interesting in that diffeent colored LED lights diffuse differently between the two colors.

I'll continue this later when I can get some time to make some short videos, but just wondered why this isn't a bigger part of LEGO building.

Thanks for such a great site, and I hope to contribute and help as much as I can!

[dhaas06]

Lifelights should offer all you need and more!

[Soundmanred]

I know you can buy kits (such as from lifelites) but I'd rather do it myself. It's cheaper and more fun that way!

I'm glad there are kits like that though since no everyone is electronically inclined!