Lionel 6-37995 Lighted Telephones.

Terminal strips are good for when you need to get at all of the lights wiring from a single location. They may be helpful to organize things together or if you plan to move the poles around on your layout.

The bus wire approach seems more natural to me since the wiring arrangement is parallel rather than serial. You just daisy-chain from one to another.

The one fastrack power outlet can do the whole job but I wouldn't recommend using track power if it can be avoided. It would be better to use another AC transformer or accessory power if you've got it.

Why are there four wires from the poles? The instruction manual shows 2.

I had to connect about a dozen street lamps on the Eagle Scout layout project.

 I chose the bus approach. Two power sources wires under the run where needed. I then used tap splice connectors (suitcase connectors) to connect the lamps. The small tap splices are the easiest way to go.

This reduced my under the layout time. It still took a while. I was on my back on an automotive creeper.

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I don't recommend daisy chaining because it will increase the power draw through the lamps closer to the power source.

Adding to the factory leads for longer length definitely helps.

The spaghetti can be tied up after the connections are made.

The lights won't care which color is commom (U) or hot (A) , just keep it the same for all.

I have just purchased these lighted telephone poles and they do have two yellow wires and two black wires coming out the bottom.  I can find nothing on the proper way to wire them.  I am not even sure if they are LED's or not.  Any info would be helpful.

What Carl said. The wires are colored so you can be sure to keep the hot and ground the same on each pole.  Two pair of wires cause there are two bulbs(grain of wheat, not led).  You decide which wires hook to hot and ground, just make it the same on each.  Don’t make it more complicated than it is.

Thanks everyone, appreciate all the help/comments.

May I ask another question?

The bottom cover that the poles snap to appear to have a "knock out area"  to run the wire out the bottom of the stand instead of the side. Looks like the wires have some shrink  wrap on them, may be easier just to drill a small hole on the side to put the wires under the layout.

Is this a  correct assumption?

Brent

bluesman posted:

I have just purchased these lighted telephone poles and they do have two yellow wires and two black wires coming out the bottom.  I can find nothing on the proper way to wire them.  I am not even sure if they are LED's or not.  Any info would be helpful.

One can always visit the manufacturer's support pages - Lionel > Customer Support> Owner's Manuals> 6-37995

BReece posted:

Thanks everyone, appreciate all the help/comments.

May I ask another question?

The bottom cover that the poles snap to appear to have a "knock out area"  to run the wire out the bottom of the stand instead of the side. Looks like the wires have some shrink  wrap on them, may be easier just to drill a small hole on the side to put the wires under the layout.

Is this a  correct assumption?

 

Brent

Yes, I agree.  Although I don’t think it’s a knockout, just an injection molding mark .  The two existing holes are for screwing that base piece to layout.  It may be possible to carefully pull the wires back through the side to allow install straight down through the base piece, then through layout decking.  Need to drill a hole through the middle of that base of course.

If you modifying the wiring, make provision for replacing the bulb.  As noted in this thread, you don't just pop in a replacement bulb, it comes as the complete harness with the long yellow/black wire pair.  Photo from other thread: