Reply to "Williams Reverse Unit Question"

Originally Posted by KPete:

I'm a little late to the discussion, but am interested in doing this myself, and was just looking at the instructions on the Williams site. If you don't need a switch, and only want the train to run forward at all times, couldn't you simply figure out which two of the three terminals could be bridged, and forget the switch?

Keith

Keith,

You can not bridge the terminals that are unused as they are for an extra set of motors or the Mars light.

You must do some re-wiring or soldering to the circuit board and add the switch in to it.

On older Williams F-7's I took out the circuit board for direction control and installed a bridge rectifier(the bridge rectifier converts the AC into usable DC) in it's place. One other note about adding a bridge rectifier and that is you will gain some power or voltage to the motors, and they will run a little faster.

Lee Fritz

4/8/157:40 AM

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