Dollhouse Electrical Copper Tape

Each prong goes into one color of the tape.

Dollhouse electrical copper tape.

Dollhouse wiring hybrid wiring combining round wire with tape wire dollhouse tape wire uses thin copper tape with adhesive backing to carry the electricity around the house in a ring. I am using tape wiring for the first time. The double conductor copper tape is made of two runs of flat copper tape uniformly spaced on transparent mylar tape. A tape run made today will appear as straight and true in a year as the day it was laid.

The mylar tape is treated for either painting or papering. Both types have adhesive across the entire width of the tape as well as a protective paper that peels off for installation. Skare embarked on developing a tape containing two parallel copper foils. One track to the attic is fine but the line going to the left is not working.

The original dollhouse wiring page with many useful demos and links to pages that explain the basics of power transformers and how many lights can i run. Tape wire uses thin copper tape with adhesive backing to carry the electricity around the house in a ring. Hi elaine just came across your post. The tape can be double and plastic coated or single and uncoated must be coated with shellac or varnish to protect it from corroding in contact with wallpaper pastes or paints.

The main body of the tape is 5 8 wide with a total thickness of approximately 005. One prong goes into the blue one prong into the copper pink side. See also painting over tapewire for a head to head comparison of spackle and liner paper for covering tapewire when. Press the wall plug outlet pins up to your tapewire do not push at this stage and the light will light up.

Right now i am wiring a north park mansion real good toys dollhouse and am having issues. With this in mind mr. The cir kit concepts name is also embossed on the natural copper foil to identify it as the one and only cir kit concepts tapewire product. This method of miniature dollhouse wiring became an immediate sensation and contributed greatly to the miniatures boom of the 80 s and 90 s.

Individual lights connect to the wiring ring. By early 1976 the product had been engineered and manufactured and cir kit concepts was launched.