Thanks for the answers! My car is an AF s gauge Erie 7210 search light car, gray with a red plastic generator. I tried to include pics but wouldnt let me. Approx 1/2 inch in front of the search light itself is a brass pin that runs through the flat bed and connects the truck (3 axle) to the car. This pin moves up and down as you put the car on the track. When I plug in the transformer, sparks fly out of the top of the pin on the flat bed and the transformer shorts out. It looks like a copper and metal plate system below the flat bed that i guess opens a circuit? What could be making the sparks? Any ideas!
The insulation on the wires has deteriorated and the wires are shorting out. The car will have to be rewired if it's to work properly.
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dkapteyn I tried to include pics but wouldnt let me.
I tried to include pics but wouldnt let me.
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dkapteyn What could be making the sparks? Any ideas!
What could be making the sparks? Any ideas!
I am not at all sure why you started a new thread. You have already asked this question.
Have you rotated one of the trucks?
It may be that the wheels are shorting out the transformer. The wheels on one truck must be aligned the opposite of the wheels on the other truck.
Turn the car over and you can see the difference, plastic wheels on one side, metal wheels on the other side. You cannot have all of the wheels aligned the same way.
At least eliminate that as a possibility.
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Jeff,
Can you put this two threads, together??
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Probably need to lock one or the other.
Or, start a third thread.
richhotrain Probably need to lock one or the other. Or, start a third thread. Rich
Rich,
The OPs probably in wonderment , after not receiving any answers on the CTT, forums..LOL.
Something is shorting out the system.
If it's not the wheels misaligned, then it is probably frayed wires touching each other or the metal frame.
Heck, it could be the transformer. Do locomotive(s) run on the layout without the search light car on the tracks?
richhotrain Something is shorting out the system. If it's not the wheels misaligned, then it is probably frayed wires touching each other or the metal frame. Heck, it could be the transformer. Do locomotive(s) run on the layout without the search light car on the tracks? Rich
That's interesting,, no one has asked that,,, I also believe it to be frayed wires, I stand corrected if I'm wrong, weren't the wires wrapped in rubber and cloth, of some sort, that is how the wires on my 49ford were....I had to basically rewire the whole car...
zstripe I stand corrected if I'm wrong, weren't the wires wrapped in rubber and cloth, of some sort, that is how the wires on my 49ford were....I had to basically rewire the whole car...
I stand corrected if I'm wrong, weren't the wires wrapped in rubber and cloth, of some sort, that is how the wires on my 49ford were....I had to basically rewire the whole car...
Yep, the post-war wiring harnesses were wrapped in a cloth fabric, similar to a shoelace, at least in appearance.