Play the video below and examine the flicker of the streetlight. Looks like real lantern light! And the lighthouse; the ramp up and down in brightness gives the illusion of a rotating beacon!
All you have to do to repeat the streetlight is to install an LED (with resistor) on the desired terminal and to the ground terminal and configure each of the up to 16 outputs that you want for his effect and turn it on! Remember to wire the LED leads right (anode goes to the terminal and cathode to ground). Reverse and retry if it doesn't light. See the Install / Configure all DCC Decoders blog or the AniLight User manual for more.
If you turn them on at staggered times (like a real lamplighter) they won't all flicker synchronously - just like a real breeze blowing through your town. They also have a special "going out" effect for the flame dying out (see video).
Here are the DCC commands for output terminal #6 being wired to this streetlight effect:
Configure terminal 6 to gas lantern mode (e.g. CV 531 set to 1)
Turn on desired terminal (e.g. accessory 127 set to 1 assuming 121 is terminal 0)
The lighthouse effect is about the same, CV 531 gets assigned mode 3 instead of 1.
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