GRJ,
I need a little advice. I’m trying to decide how I want to hook up the smoke unit and directional lighting. The mars light will be connected to the motion sensing board so it illuminates in the forward direction.
The TAS SAW board I’m using has 12V AC directional lighting outputs. The smoke unit is Lionel/K-Line. Currently, (motion sensor not installed), the smoke unit doesn’t change intensity when at idle or while moving. According to the schematic you provided for the motion sensing board, the smoke unit’s resistor is shown, not the entire fan driven smoke unit. Is it just a generic smoke unit reference? Can I hook up the + lead for the smoke unit through the motion sensor to control the fan speed AND resistor temp? Will it reduce the voltage enough to slow the rpm’s of the DC fan motor and thus reduce the smoke output at idle?
Onto the next question; When wiring up directional 3V LED marker’s, should they be in series or parallel? If in series, should I incorporate the headlight LED into the circuit as well? I’ve already bridged capacitors across the R2LC pins as noted in another thread. I’m using bi-color LED’s for marker lights and 3mm warm white LED’s for number boards, headlight, Mars light, and cab light. I still haven’t decided if I should put a rear light and markers on this E-6 as they didn’t have them prototypically. Thoughts?
Thanks in advance for your help!
