Reply to "ERR Upgrade Newbie- 6/11/22 Update- Final Assembly and Road Test....Sort Of"

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Interesting that I started this thread last Fall with a pic of the new Santa Fe F3's I had just bought.

OK so I got sidelined with the BEEP but now it's time to take on the big boys.

My plan- AC Commander, railsounds, all LED lighting, directional headlights, number boards, and red/green marker lights. No smoke. Adding electro-couplers on both engines too. I bought a MTH tether harness set with plans to light the dummy engine to match the powered unit.

I've stripped out the original e-unit and cleaned up the wiring. Started laying out the boards to see what will fit where. It's tight but I think everything will fit in the powered A. I want the flexibility to run the powered unit as a single A so I'm hoping to keep the sound set in this engine. The speaker and enclosure are the biggest issue. After the BEEP I figured this would be a cake walk- forgot about the two honkin' big pullmor motors. laugh

Today I got the capacitors on the motors and AC comm board installed and tested. So far so good. More to come. thumb

Bob

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