Lights not working on Lionel Atlantic?

You had to have some current limiting for those marker lights, so you should have used a resistor.  For the R2LC, I'd have used a 680 ohm resistor for two colored LED's in series.  For white ones, probably a 470 would be a better choice.  If you wired them in series, then I'd up my values a bit.

Remove the wiring to the two LED's, since they're probably toast anyway.  See if the basic headlight works after you do that.  It's possible to replace the headlight triac on the R2LC if it's cooked.

If the triac is gone, you didn't toast it because of the current for the LED's if they had proper current limiting, the headlight output can drive several bulbs.  However, with no current limiting, you may have cooked it when it smoked the LED chips.  I've driven a bunch of LED's off the headlight output, and even powered a little logic circuit from it in one engine.

These were Evan's Design's LEDs so they had all the "stuff" built in.  

Did you try AUx 2 in case the headlight got toggled off somehow?

I have been caught on that one a time or two.

Rod

Realize, I have only done this 2 or three, times and forum, Chuck S, showed me

but the absolutely only place I can get the negative to act correctly, is on the 1 screw, on front roller.   Positive on the bulb house as you have done it , also.

OH , Yea, I am using Evans Designs

I can't imagine how the light caused this in that case.  As you say, they should run on AC or either polarity of DC, hard to screw that up! :-)  If it's not AUX 2 as Rod suggests, I'd suspect perhaps a short in the wiring may have taken out the lighting triac.

Check Aux 2 as Rob said. Its possible you blew the triac on the R2LC. I would check wiring and plugs were they connect.The fire box glow is could be a bad bulb or bad connection as it is lit from track power.

Bill

Ok guys....  I'm at work right now but will try AUX2 when I get home.  I'm hoping/betting that is it!  Now a stupid question cause I cannot wait to get home, does the DCS remote show AUX2 as an option on it?  I don't have a CAB2.

On the DCS remote, there are softkeys for Aux1 and Aux2, they are toggle keys.

You may have a point there.  I hooked it up and sure enough the AUX2 caused the lights to momentarily come on, but then back off again.  I was "fiddling" around with it and it would blink on for a split second every once in a while.... like the ground wasn't sound or something.  

So if I read that right, maybe leaving one wire hooked to the red lead going to the head light and grounding the other wire to the engine would fix that?

Is there a real bulb in parallel with the Evans LED?  The triac on the R2LC has problems with driving strictly LEDs, it needs a resistive load to work properly.  If you have no real light bulb, a 470 ohm 1/2W resistor across the lighting outputs will bring the lights back to life.

No Gunrunner there isn't a real bulb in the line, only 5 LEDs.  You have a good point there.  I'll add that to my list of "lets try this" things to do tonight when I finally get home!  

That may bring the lights back to life.

If that works.... what am I gonna be up to on my tab with you?  I think I was at a six pack and now it may be a case!  

With all of the wisdom and help that John gives freely on this forum, I would suggest a whole 20' container full may be appropriate. 

I'll take a case of Coors Light.

Well I use to be able to run across the street and handle that but they closed down the Coor's Brewery here in Memphis a few years back.  

That's all right, the only real Coors beer is brewed with pure mountain spring water from the Rockies!

Well it worked!  I put one little bulb back on the engine (the firebox bulb) and everything works great!  

Thanks!

(I'm not sure about this but I believe they actually used tank cars to bring the water from Golden, CO to Memphis to make the beer!)

It's great that you got it working again.

My only question on the water is, do the refrigerate it for the trip?  I wouldn't want it to spoil on the trip back East!

John;

Great bit of information!

I have added it to my ongoing TMCC notes.

Rod

I ran across this some time back and it befuddled me until it was explained by Lionel.   

It's a bad day when you don't learn something...