Dear Bill,
  If you plug a DCC decoder with the usual voltage light functions you will 
cook the 5 volt headlight bulbs.  You need to add dropping resistors.  Or, use 
the red/white (instead of blue) 5 volt lighting common from a QSI Rev. U 
(discontinued) or Titan decoder.  We have lots more bulbs.  But do not delay in 
ordering as Nov 17th is just around the corner and after that I am not sure we 
can still sell them...
Don
PS  The other lights (class lights and numberboards) use a different socket 
than the headlight so you have not cooked them....



On Oct 19, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Bill Lane wrote:

> 
> Don is at York now. Maybe he will answer or not….
> 
>  
> 
> I have my PRR A B A set of F7 with just a NCE decoder. It has the plug right 
> on the board so there are no wires. I am now pretty sure the lights never 
> worked. But just to be sure I replaced the headlight with a new LED. Still 
> nothing. It’s almost like the decoder is not connected to the light circuit. 
> I tried a different NCE decoder that was brand new. Still no lights. I ran 
> thought the numbers to see if it was on another function. You got it – no 
> lights.
> 
>  
> 
> For my B&O A B B A Set I am pretty sure I went “scorched earth” on it and 
> hard wired those decoders in. Those lights work.
> 
>  
> 
> I was thinking about putting a Tsunami in them. I have spare 8 pin plugs cut 
> off of other decoders. If I hard wired a Tsunami to that 8 pin DCC plug will 
> the lights work correctly, and the SHS installed speaker work?  
> 
>  
> 
> Thank You,
> Bill Lane
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