Fire trucks with operating lights

Pete,

His name is Jack Pearce.  Email is jack_pearce4@sympatico.ca  His work is excellent & reasonable.  He has retrofited passengercars for me @ his treatment of dining cars with lighted candles on the tables is amazing.

Pete,

Jack has done over 50 Lighted Cars, Trucks, Construction Equip, Fire Engines, Pickup Trucks, Emeregency Vehicles for me for the last 15 Years. I have YET to have one fail. If it did you can bet on him making it good. He does most with LED's and Fiber Optics. I have been operating them with 12 Volts AC & never had a failure.

Great guy and Great Work,

Sincerely FRED (fredstrains)

Does he have a website?

Evan Design, http://www.modeltrainsoftware.com/, make some great LED's that are easy to install in your own cars and trucks. The lights are ready to go. All you need to do, after installation, is to supply power.

Jack does not have a WEB SITE, but his E-Mail address is shown above on a post from DAVE.

Fredstrains

Jack is a CLASS ACT ! He is always behind because he is the best at what he does.

Thanks everyone!! And thanks to Dave for the email address!

PETE,

If you can wait, Jack is in the "ORANGE" Hall every Spring and Fall!

Fredstrains

I ship stuff to him and pick it up at York. That's the easiest way to do the transactions.

Not that there has ever been a problem with his work, but that way you get to test the lights and flashers, etc, to be sure they work the way you want them to.

Jack is a class act and a great asset to the hobby.

You should try Evan Design's products. The have some great kits for emergency vehicles, and sounds as well. I have converted some Super Streets vans into fire trucks and ambulances and the results have been fantastic.

Hi

This is Jack Pearce responding.  I haven't checked the forum for several months.  I do the vehicle and passenger train car lighting.  Please allow me to list the features of the aLED replacement lighting board I produce for use on the constant voltage layouts.

- colors appropriate for different eras is available.

-the draw for illuminating the cpassenger car is two (2) milliamps per car.

-a second circuit is already installed on the board and ready for use to illuminate up to seven additional LEDS.  I use this second circuit for the following: vestibule lights, marker lights, rear beacon, drumhead, step lights for heavyweight era cars, isle foot lighting in dome and vista dome cars, and every candle (in MTH streamliner diners there are up to 18) on the dining tables is lit.  While I am installing the dining car lighting, I make table cloths, cutlery, plates, food and add passengers before making and lighting the candles.

-each board has a choke to eliminate any possiblity of engine signal interference.

- the board may be shortened for smaller passenger cars by snapping at built in perferations.

-some holes in the board line up with the screws that held the original MTH lighting systen in place.

-a built in rectifier means it is not significant which pick up wire is fed to the center rail pick up.  Also, board may be used for DC layouts such as S scale, G gauge and two rail O gauge. 

-capacitors eliminate flickering over switches and dirty track.

-the time taken to replace a lighting strip in a regular coach is mostly used in removing and replacing the base plates on the passenger cars.  The power wires are already connected to the boards and are then connected to the wires which fed the original board in the car.

This lighting along with the vehicle lighting are a part of my hobbies.  As such, I do not have a website, brochures, catalogue, or business card.  Therefor, no item leaves here unless I have completed it to its maximum potential regardless of how long it takes to figure it out.  Fortunately, people who get my items are patient and understand that they are getting unique items as opposed to production items.  Some items have taken many months before I am satisfied with the result.  That is the way it is at my house.

For more technical information, please visit related posting by Dave Hikel.

Thanks,  Jack

Hi Fred

You folks were hammered with the tornado and I lost track of you.  Great to hear you are active again.  My email is still jack_pearce4@sympatico.ca  Sure would like to directly speak and catch up with you.  I look forward to hearing from you again.  Jack

Hi Jack,

I have to agree with Fred. I would say the folks on the forum ask about you about every other week. I have several of you vehicles on my layout now and I think you have some that I sent to you for upgrading. Jack, thanks for everything you do for this hobby.

I just bought  a fire dept ladder truck, fire chief SUV, State Police car, ambulance and ambulance Helicopter from jack.Got the stuff fast.

All are amazing, all are beyond  what i expected. They are simply awlsome. The fire engine laddder truck has 44 lights the other 20 + lights.He does the most amazing work

His work is worth every penny. So happy that I have these for my layout.

I recommend Jack if you want museum quality flashing lights for emergency vechicles for a great price.

Thanks Jack

Steve