Hi George,
I trust the modified pacific will be hauling the "Lonesome Pine" ?
Don MacDougall
UK.
--- In [email protected], "gsc3" <gsc3@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Bob. Probably a couple months away but I've got a USRA Pacific I
> need to put a decoder in so this is helpful. Curious, where did you put the
> speaker?
>
> George Courtney
>
>
>
> --- In [email protected], Bob Werre <bob@> wrote:
> >
> > For some reason, I've been struggling in replacing a decoder in my USRA
> > Mike. I've always reached the point of everything doing fine until
> > putting the boiler and tender shells into position. That's why I had
> > asked about the capacitor a couple of days ago. I've found the
> > problem! It was with the LED headlight. I had used a 3mm with the
> > leads snipped short and run into the boiler front--I had coated the wire
> > leads with liquid insulation. It had worked in the past, but when I
> > hooked it up Tuesday evening the engine's chuff sound went crazy with
> > the engine just sitting there. Is is sort of like if you turned on the
> > water in the bathroom sink and your outside sprinkler system turns
> > on--in other words it didn't make sense!
> >
> > Anyway I unplugged the headlight wires and things were okay. So I then
> > removed the LED and installed one of those surface mounted
> > super-miniature units as a replacement. I re-installed the boiler last
> > night and things are pretty much solved. I did burn out the forward
> > headlight function, so I've reversed the engines front to back CV and
> > now use the rear light function as the forward light--a few minutes of
> > work but it saves a repair session back to Durango. Tonite I'll add the
> > pilot and trailing trucks and be running trains again--fingers crossed!
> >
> > I've done many successful DCC installations but this one was pretty sneaky.
> >
> > Bob Werre
> > BobWphoto.com
> >
>
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