Hi all,
Now, it may be some 15 years ago, but I was always taught at school that
basic wiring went thus, Positive was red and Negative was black ???
Simple I know till we hit the realms of DCC, but I'm not on about that
today.. (Or Hornby where they adopted the Henry Ford livery, any colour, so
long as it is black!)
Well, it seems that Express models have also started going away from the
norm ! Imagine my utter astonishment when I took home some of the very nice
yard lamps that they retail, go to read the destructions, just to make sure
and I find two wires from the LED and a resistor.....
OK, so I have a white and a black....
Connect resistor to black... OK....
Now connect Black to your + feed and white to the - ...... Eh ??
It was bad enough wiring the DCC lighting kit into the class 37 when the
instructions had a blue, yellow and white wire to match your leads on the
chip, but the LED's your sent to fit had only Red and Black as colours !
Come on, lets get the simple bits right, then we can finally progress....
- posted
15 years ago