So I'm working on installing LEDs in some GGD NYC pass cars. While I'm in there I'm fine tuning stuff adding chokes, poly-fuses, etc. I haven't done this in awhile so I guess I'm rusty? I worked on a car that I took apart months ago. I connected the black wire to a truck and then realized it has to run thru a bracket, so that all had to come back apart. I fixed that but the wire went the wrong way so I fixed that again. A sliding door got shoved well into the car on re-assembly so the whole car had to come apart again.
I was putting the car together for the third or fourth time??? and I now realize that where I put the choke won't work. I placed it next to the poly-fuse which protects one truck's wire from the other truck shorting. Those wires wye together so the choke needs to be placed after the wye! I caught that working on the next car. So I'll have to go back into that first car again, at least to fix that.
I guess I'm making progress after these cars have been sitting here since springtime. I made a custom shim mount for the coupler on the first car to get the right height. I checked the ones I got from GGD and they were too tall. So on the next car I needed a taller one. I go back into the loose packaging in a pile of stuff on my tool box. I find that there's 2 different height coupler mounts. So the extra work in making a custom lower plastic coupler mount was not needed as I had bought the right ones from GGD.
I just need somewhere to vent now. I have many more cars to do. Our grandsons RK Amtrak cars have been sitting here waiting for LED lights for almost a year. I did one, so I have to do them all.
No wonder I skipped doing this work. Somethings are not fun. I could hear my girl cheering on the Bills. Seems they do good when I walk away.
