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Re: DCC chip installed in accessory brick
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 29 Nov 2003 21:08:55 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, David Koudys wrote:
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> So I install the Lenz N decoder in a train motor, leaving the 2x2 contact plate
> alone (still connected to the wheel pickups)
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> Just soldered the pickups to the chip, and the chip to the 9v motor in the train
> motor housing (easiest conversion to date, btw :) )
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> And then I put the motor on the track. Test it--works just fine--no lights
> yet--presumably I'll work on it.
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> Anyway, then put hte accessory block on the housing, and run a regular 9v wire
> from the DCC accessory block to the 2x2 electric plate on the train housing.
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> Attach a regular 9v motor to the variable speed function on the accessory block,
> then put the whole thing on the track.
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> Start up the train motor so it's coasting along the track, then start the 9v
> motor.
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> It all works! Pics in a bit!
Well I was thinking of not actually installing the decoder in the motor - here's
my idea:
1. Cut through the conductors under the 2x2 connector on the motor.
2. Connect the power pickups to 2 of the contacts, the motor to the other 2.
3. Modify the contact end of a 9V wire in the same way as the motor so there's
four separate contacts.
4. Install the decoder in a "brick" made of plates with a electric plate on top,
and connect the power & motor outputs to the modified lead in step three with a
four-wire lead.
5. Connect accessory outputs from decoder to the electric plate as desired.
Maybe even leave a "straight through" connection.
The reason I want to try this is partly that the decoder now becomes totally
separate, but mostly, the motor can still be used as a standard 9V train motor,
by either shorting the contacts with 1x2 electric plates, or just connecting a
standard 9V wire!
ROSCO
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 | | Re: DCC chip installed in accessory brick
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| (...) This sounds like a great solution if you can pull it off. This, or contacts at both ends with pickup on one end and motor power on the other, are what we'd been hoping LEGO would do in a redesign of the motor but Brad has said not to count on (...) (21 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: DCC chip installed in accessory brick
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| In lugnet.trains, David Koudys wrote: <snip> (...) Oh My Goodness!!! THis could get really fun! So I install the Lenz N decoder in a train motor, leaving the 2x2 contact plate alone (still connected to the wheel pickups) Just soldered the pickups to (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
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