Don--
   I have the glitch buster from Rio Pecos on both my Pearse "Switcher" and
my Pearse "Colorado."  The brand name is "Sentinel," but I may have spelled
that incorrectly, and it was reviewed in SitG in the last couple years.
   The glitch buster itself is about 1.25 inches square and 0.25 inches
thick.  It has two leads, one with a female three-wire socket and the other
with a male three-wire plug.  The wire is color coded, and each lead is
about 3 inches long.  The settings for the amount of delay are controlled by
DIP switches on the glitch buster itself.
   As for ease of moving from one loco to another, I suspect that is a
matter of personal preference because the glitch busters are
interchangeable; you just get one and install it and adjust the amount of
delay in relaying the signal to the servo.  Personally, I would not care to
install it each time that I changed locos.  On both of these locos, the
glitch buster is "in-line," plugged into the receiver in the tender and then
into the stock three-wire section that came with the R/C unit which, in
turn, plugs into the loco, giving me plenty of wire with which to work when
connecting tender to loco.  If seven inches, with only three inches of wire
at each end, are enough for you to make the installation and connections
easily, you can do it.  But considering how much other "bells and whistles"
in this hobby cost, I recommend that for your two or three favorite locos
you seriously consider dedicated glitch busters with an extra one to be
shared by the ones that "also ran."
Bob Blackson
 

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