I am currently scratch building a passenger station canopy and have installed 5 lamp posts on the platform. Each post has 3 lamps and each lamp has two wires totaling 6 per post. I am having trouble linking them together. Can someone PLEASE help? When I would connect the center bulb of one post with the center bulb of another post, I use a battery to test the connection and it is good. I would then take the two leads of one end bulb and connect them to the corresponding leads of another bulb on a different post, I get nothing. Why is this? I stop there because I know that the remaining bulbs aren’t going to work either. My Brother In Law told me to take one lead from each bulb of one post and connect them then take the other leads from those bulbs and connect them and attach to the power source…in this case my battery. I haven’t done so yet; would THAT work? If that does, it would make sending the le
You want to wire them all in parallel. Take one lead from each bulb on a post and tie them together. Then tie the other lead from each bulb together. That’s per post, you should not have 2 wires, which wneh connected to 6V will light all 3 bulbs on that post. Now repeat for the posts. Tie one lead of each post together. Then tie the other lead from each post together. When you connect this all up to 6V, every light should come on. I’d use some sort of 6V power supply, or even a few volts lower to extend the bulb life. 15 bulbs on batteries won’t last very long - the batteries, I mean. 4.5-5 volts would be good, the bulbs wouldn;t be glaringly bright then, and they last a lot longer when the voltage is reduced. Unless they are actually 12 volt bulbs and you’re already runnign them ar reduced voltage by using 6V.
–Randy
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly Randy! On a totally different railroad forum, they suggested the same exact thing where I would take one lead from every bulb and so on and so forth.
Again, thanks for the quick reply and the advice!
Steve
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly Randy! On a totally different railroad forum, they suggested the same exact thing where I would take one lead from every bulb and so on and so forth.
Again, thanks for the quick reply and the advice!
Steve