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Re: DCC chip installed in accessory brick
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 26 Nov 2003 07:54:00 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, David Koudys wrote:
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> I don't have a 12v motor but this mod should be pretty easy.
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> Good luck with that.
Yes! It works, I came home this evening and cut open a perfectly good brand new
9V motor and put a 1.5 amp decoder inside and connected it to the 2x2 electrical
plate on the motor housing. Now I have those old 12V locos running again. They
look cool with 6 wheels and the gray valve rods etc. 7727 was the first to go
for a run!
My
They actually run better than the 9V trains on the same DCC supply, they start
sooner, have just as much pull (maybe more) but might be a bit down on top speed
although still fast enough to cannon off on the curves.
The only (slight) disappointment is that the 9V motor housing makes a rather
unusual looking bogey ( i.e. truck).
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 | | Re: DCC chip installed in accessory brick
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| (...) Sweet! Love to see pics sometime :) Yeah, the 9v train housing is a strange animal, but I'm pretty much used to it now. My biggest qualm is the lack of 'fake middle wheel' expandability for 3 wheel power bogeys to emulate newer NA locos. Right (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: DCC chip installed in accessory brick
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| I'm wondering...... Would it be possible to pull the metal wheels from a dead 9V train motor, and fit them into a standard wheelset frame, and convert it into a power pickup? Seems to me it should be possible, it's just how much work it would be. (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
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