Lionel flickering lights, solved ! | O Gauge Railroading On Line Forum

Randy PhillipsOGR Forum Member

It was a good night in the train room. I have been plagued by irratic running of my Lionel TMCC and Legacy engines lately. So much so, that they would run out of control at will. MTH engines ran fine. The problem surfaced when I wired up some more track on the layout.

I checked grounding, polarities etc etc...no luck.

The problem was that I had the legacy base plugged in to my power bar and NOT the wall recepticle. The power bar, being grounded with 3 pronged plugs etc , I thought was OK.

BUT NOT.... The directions in the owners manual say to use a wall, 3 pronged properly grounded recepticle.

They werent kidding...After plugging into the wall,, all was well.

Randy Phillips

12/21/121:11 AM

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SamOGR Forum Member DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

I think the issue is with the powerstrip. It would be interesting to swap out the strip with a better quality one and then plug the Legacy base back into the new strip and see if the irratic running happens again.

12/21/123:54 PM

RussellOGR Forum Member

Agreed. The Strip ground should be directly connected to the wall plug internally.

If it's not it is a potential ground fault problem.

12/21/124:20 PM

Randy PhillipsOGR Forum Member

Thanks Gents.... Great advice... Will be checking out my power bar.....

Randy

12/21/125:38 PM

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