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Reply to "1970's era Blue Comet Tender Issue"

I got a small bag of the correct capacitor off eBay and shunted brushes, but it didn't help. The Railsounds board was drawing power off the engine through the original SOS 3 pin plug. I gave up on the 3 pin plug and installed roller pick-ups on both tenders. Doing that seemed to make things worse. I went back to the original SOS configuration and the Railounds parts are now in a small shoe box somewhere on a shelf.

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One electronic train friend of mine advised me that the engines that were supplied with Railsound tenders had capacitors on the motor, different resistance values in the motor windings, and some of them had shunted brushes. None of which my engines had.


 

He could always add capacitors, and replace the brushes with shunted ones. 

 

Last edited by bigo426

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