gunrunnerjohn posted:I can see this being useful in a club situation to identify potential running issues. I do have to disagree with the not converting to LED's in all but the most die-hard "I want to keep it 100% original" guys. You can get the LED's in any color temperature you like, so changing the look is normally restricted to having much better and more even lighting in the cars.
A couple of things overlooked in sticking with incandescent bulbs is the vast power savings with LED lighting, on the order of 90-95%, and the flicker-free running.
For a club situation, the power savings can be a major boost. When our modular club runs, we regularly have issues with passenger trains causing issues with both power and DCS. More than once we've had to have someone take their passenger train off if another passenger train was running on the same track, the 180W bricks just couldn't support two passenger consists. Converting to LED's solves both issues. Since, at least for my conversions, I have a DCS choke in every car, the DCS issues are solved as well as the excessive power consumption issues.
I make all these cases for LEDs weekly too, but sometimes it’s better to just put a choke there than having a 6 month debate. It’s obnoxious levels of power I know!
