Reply to "Updating early S scale Legacy engines with DCC"

TOKELLYOGR Forum Member

I stand corrected. I was looking through the catalogues and not referring to the owner's manuals. I missed the information about U33Cs being "Legacy-controlled" that is in both the catalogue and the manual and the fact that SD70ACes are DCC compatible--a fact not mentioned in the 2012 catalogue but does appear on the cover of the owner's manual. The owner's manual for the Y-3 warns that use of DC on that locomotive may harm sensitive electronics, but that locomotive DOES operate on straight DC current. (Lionel catalogues are not the most reliable source of information, and I apologize for my relying on them.)

If the RCDC boards from the U36Cs would add both DC and DCC compatibility to the first issue of the U33Cs (with their faster gearing than subsequent versions), I would also replace the boards in those older units for greater compatibility. I'll rely on your experience, Chuck, to see if that is possible. For now, even I don't trust what I write!

Terry

6/27/213:48 PM

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