I have another question for John/Stan/et al. - but first, Kudos. I'm sure some of you have seen the missive from Alan Arnold (OGR head honcho) about his growing concerns about the escalation of negative posts in some of the discussions (something I recall Rich Melvin - his predecessor - worrying about). Fortunately I haven't seen a lot of that and in apparent (and delightful) contrast to that concern has been the very helpful discussions and inputs in this forum on converting passenger car lighting to LEDs. This is a topic that has been discussed quite a bit over the past several years yet the really knowledgeable and helpful folks like John, Stan and others haven't dismissively said 'we covered that back in "aught six" - go look it up...' but instead have engaged with the various 'new to the topic' folks and those of us that have been in the 'contemplation' stage for a couple of years. So I just wanted to say "thanks" for both the knowledge and experience, the willingness to offer help, but also the attitude. Nice goin'...
So my question - looking back at the earlier part of this thread, which is a couple of years old - John, you made a comment about not having anything grounded to the frame (in response to a troubleshooting question). I'm not sure how Lionel passenger cars are wired up - I'm a Flyer guy and in my case, the track power circuit is typically the 'hot' pickup through one truck which is insulated from the car frame and a wire lead from that truck (usually from the top of the truck rivet) to one side of the light bulb socket. The other side of the socket is usually connected physically to the metal floor of the passenger car, which in turn is connected to the other truck (uninsulated). My plan is to take the leads from the two trucks (I'll solder a lead to the rivet on the uninsulated truck or connect it to the frame) as inputs to the AC side of the AC-DC bridge circuit. Nothing 'downstream' of that connection will electrically connect to the metal floor/frame. Is that consistent with not grounding to the frame? I suppose alternatively I could insulate the other truck from the floor/frame - which turns this into a somewhat bigger project.
Thanks,
Rich
