Don, I think you made the right move in making a semi permanent
connection. Most of the problems I have are those tiny connectors
soldered to even finer wire. Since you engine was relatively small
lifting both components with one hand is possible. IMHO that is the
only major problem that still remains in our DCC world--the fine
connections and the hair clog of wires near the decoder! I know guys
who have tried to make some kind of connection but I've seen any
satisfactory solution as yet.
Bob Werre
On 12/11/12 6:03 AM, Don Thompson wrote:
This was the same dilemma that we had during the design of our 2-8-0.
I too hated having to plug in the tender plus we had 10 conductors
between the tender and the loco. As I looked at the prototype, I
realize they had rather large water hoses between the two, so we hid 5
wires in each black water hose and used screws in the drawbar. If you
want, you can remove the tender as they installed a 10 pin jst plugged
into the tender socket pcb. You do have to remove the tender shell to
get to the plug.
Don Thompson
