C&O M-1 steam turbine:
Decoder install (cont):
First test with new Loksound 5 decoder. I needed to down load a steam turbine and Loksound fills the 'bill'. I've installed headlights (engine and tender) and marker lights (engine and tender). To only have one wire between (red ground) engine and tender I installed a TCS FL2 (lights only) decoder in the tender. Another FL2 was used in the engine for a smoke unit. When changing directions, the engine jerks a few times before running smoothly. Not sure why it does that. There are two motors and I wired them in parallel.
I was using decoderpro to try to load the new address but kept getting 302 errors. A friend had to bring his locprogrammer hardware to my house to get the address to load. There's something wrong with decoderpro since I reset the digitrax command station, rebooted my PC and restarted decoderpro. Via the programming track the tender decoder FL2 got the same 302 errors but, using the hand held throttle, I could program the FL2 so the problem seems to be Decoderpro.
Tender FL2 decoder handling marker and head lights. I drilled one small hole to run the red wire to the engine.
Not sure where the decoder ground wire goes so I didn't connect it to anything.
Smoke unit by Seuthe. The instructions are all in German but, with only 2 wires, can't be too hard to figure out! Watched enough 'flicks' to know one work in the instructions: Achtung.
The motor is right below the exhaust so I soldered two pieces of brass tubing to route the smoke.
Presently I only taped it to the roof. It just occurred to me that the smoke unit is, probably, going to have to be vertical (or at least some angle) so the fluid runs down to the heating element!
First test. Lights off.
Lights on. Digital cameras are great in low light but exasperates bright lights.
MMM: only one marker light working.
When anyone runs this engine, will have to know not to touch the 'chesapeake and ohio' logo as it is plastic and very sensitive. Putting a paper towel around that area saved any damage to it.
One wire needed between engine and tender for FL2 decoder. The other ground is going through the draw bar and seems to be working OK; in the past, I've always had a wire between the decoder and engine.
I'll post a test video of the engine when youtube uploads it.
