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Lamp Wiring - Wire colors for hot and common

Not sure if this matters.  I have installed all of my electrical with wire colors gong to proper hot or common terminals.  This is a little more problematic with colors not being red and black, or labeled.  For example, Woodland scenic building, the hot is white and the common is black.  Lionel Street lamps use red and white.

1 question, is Lionel's red supposed to be hot and white to be common?  Does it make a difference connecting streel lamps   I intend to power an MTH terminal block off the transformer and feed the individual streetlamps of the output terminals.

I intend to run the street lamps solely on a channel on my ZW-L.  That way I can isolate the street lamps and vary only their brightness with the voltage output from the transformer.

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OGR Publishing, Inc., 1310 Eastside Centre Ct, Suite 6, Mountain Home, AR 72653
800-980-OGRR (6477)
www.ogaugerr.com

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