Kato USA, Inc. N Passenger Car Light Kit, White LED (6), KAT11212

When installed correctly, these look great. They cast an even light throughout the cabin, and everything has obviously been very well engineered and machined. I have them on a DCC layout, though apparently they work on DC layouts just as well. It will probably take you about 15 minutes for the first car, and then 2-3 minutes for each one after that. For me, I found the following to be helpful: 1) On the lamp portion, give the pins a slight bend so they have some "spring" into the metal contact strips. This will also help hold everything in place. 2) Pay attention so how the lightboard goes in place. The light is in the back of the car, and the front of the top (which you remove to install the lighting it) is marked with an arrow (at least it was on my Amtrak Intercities). The light panel should snap, or at least sit in place, when it is seated correctly. 3) Consider putting a small piece of electrical tape underneath the lamp piece. Just like 1cm x 1/2cm, enough to block light shining down on those first two rows of seats. With this in place, the lighting across the car is much more even. The kit also contains six (and exactly six) orange pieces of plastic which can be mounted on the lamp piece to help diffuse and "warm" the color a bit. The effect is subtle, but I think it more closely matches the lighting I've seen on the rails, so I'd recommend at least giving them a try.

Great value Good product

Ok

Kato makes well-engineered products. The fit is very good and installation is quick. I wish they would use warm color LED, around 2500-300K, instead of the blue color 4-5K in appearance. The blue color is unfit for earlier models as it gives an ugly fluorescent light appearance. The orange lens is very difficult to apply and does virtually nothing to effect the blue. It seems like an afterthought.

The videos make it easy to use or to put together I felt it was not I had a hard time and I wasn't able to Light up my Baggage cars I followed the instructions but I cannot get it to work

Install goes easily after the first one. They look great. That add a lot to the looks of your passenger trains.

I ordered this for my "106-3531 Amtrak Superliner Phase III 6-Car Set" and everything about this product is bad. 1) The instructions are completely nonsensical, mostly in Japanese, and showing irrelevant steps ("Not for US/European models") 2) The steps that *are* in English are incorrect. They show you snapping the lens onto either a 6/4-post mounting system (Doesn't exist except for the baggage car) or into the ceiling mounting snap points... which don't exist in any of them. The suggestion from random videos and posts online is to just... set the lens on top of the passenger area, but that looks horrible, with only 25-30% of the cars lit. Beyond that, if you pick up the car, the lens will shift and settle where it wants to. 3) Two of the six LEDs shipped are outright dead. Other LEDs work when swapped in, but two don't turn on, even when given current directly. 4) No information is given or available online for the cars as to how to mount them properly. And yes, this is the "correct" lighting kit: Amtrak Superliner Phase III 6-Car Set: "Fully detailed interiors can be lit with optional Interior lighting kit with LED #11-211/11-212."

My kit arrived in 2 weeks from Japan. The instructions were in English as well as Japanese. With a little tutoring from YouTube, I found these lights easy to install in my Kato Super Chief Passenger Car set. It was necessary; however, to shorten the light diffuser for the Vista Valley car due to the outside lights already installed. For those who found that they needed to press on the car to make the lights work, you need to redo your installation. Most likely you have inserted the light diffuser too far back and have created pressure against the light unit. You may also have bent one or both sets of contact strips. If the light is not being sent all the way to the other end of the car, the light diffuser is either upside down or too far away from the LED. When properly installed, these lights are excellent. I did not use the color filter because I liked the color of the light as is. These filters require removing the light board from the plastic unit for insertion. This is very hard in N scale. I wouldn't bother if I were you.

Great lights

Das Prinzip von Kato ist einfach und total GENIAL

I bought these to install in my KATO Silver Streak Zephyr train set. The instruction are not great thankfully there are a few videos out there that made it pretty easy. I had to bend the copper inserts a bit to get good contact with the light fixture and one of the cars the window glass kept falling out. I got it all working and love the effect. Best price around, fast delivery and good quality what more could you ask for thanks!

Llego a tiempo y bien empacado. Tristemente el producto venia incompleto, por lo que inicie el proceso de regresarlo.

équipement d'éclairage pour wagons échelle N kato. Système simple à mettre en œuvre dans la mesure où les wagons ou voitures pour des rames type shinkansen sont pré équipés en alimentation. A partir de ce pré équipement on peut même installer d'autres types d'éclairage à partir de ruban LED par exemple ( voir sites spécialisés en modélisme ferroviaire. En bref satisfait du produit.