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WBC posted:
gunrunnerjohn posted:

Well, here's how those wires SHOULD have been routed if they had any brains.  Saving an inch or two of wire created the whole issue with the flywheel!

When I do upgrades, that's how I run the lighting wires to avoid getting tangled up with the flywheel.

That is exactly how my phase II unit is wired. It has two harnesses which guides the bundle of wires around the motor flywheel. On my unit a couple of wires worked themselves out of the two harnesses. Brings up many questions. But one is: "what did the manufacturer know and when did they know it?" The appearance is that the manufacturer discovered the flaw in the middle/end of the run and corrected it but did not go back to correct the flawed units. 

Here is an interior shot of my phase II unit, locomotive #200.

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Clearly two harnesses that guide the cable of wires around the motor. Obviously at some point production changed. Did the manufacturer catch the error of the single harness and change to two harnesses?  Or did the manufacturer decide to save a few pennies right in the middle of the run and change to the single harness system? 

Anyways, my unit has the wiring arranged like gunrunnerjohn suggests and no major problems as of yet with about 18 hours of run time. 

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