Reply to "Mighty Sound of Steam Questions w/ Pics"

Hi;

Thanks for the various help in the comments above. Got an old "train set" Atlantic engine with Sound of Steam back from humming to "chuffing" thank you all! I bought some 100 micro Farad and 470 micro Farad capacitors though the Mouser Electronics Web Store. Decided to skip the cheap Chinese options on Ebay as I do not work with electronics much and did not want the risk of bad or counterfeit parts.

The note about, "be sure to check the polarity" was a big help as I didn't really think about capacitors having a positive and a negative side. So; that was a big help. By the way, the bottom of the board is a before, so that's Lionel's and a previous owner's soldering, not mine.

I added the bar end trucks too. I hate the MPC weird sideframes, whatever their prototype is meant to be??

Thanx again;

ericc

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