Subject:
|
Re: DCC chip installed in accessory brick
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.trains
|
Date:
|
Wed, 26 Nov 2003 17:31:23 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1719 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.trains, John Hill wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, David Koudys wrote:
> >
> > I don't have a 12v motor but this mod should be pretty easy.
> >
> > 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).
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 now I have my 'dummy' 3 wheel power bogeys on my new engine, and that just
gets pushed around the track by the 'B' unit with the 9v motor.
Looks okay--it'll do (for now :) )
Dave K
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: DCC chip installed in accessory brick
|
| (...) I have trouble accepting the destruction of a perfectly good 9V motor so I guess I will not be making many of these. Unless of course I stumble across a few 'dead' motors!! My best 12Volt locos have two motors so the power pick-up bogey has to (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: DCC chip installed in accessory brick
|
| (...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
|
18 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
