Sunset 4-8-0's

[NW Modeling List]

 I'm following the conversation but can't add to the instalation of DCC in the engine. My add to the conversation is only that I use the Digitrax DX123D decoder in all my engines. Yes I have found out the hard way about bare wires and fried decoders. Any more I don't even start instalation until I have all wires either cut back to no wire showing or when wiring I have shrink wrap over the bare wires in the testing faze and then when all is well I shrink. I was having problems with some of my brass engines not picking up the radio signal when I put the body over the frame. The unit would work with the body off but wouldn't pick up the radio signal when I put the body on the frame. When I went to the DX123D decoder that issue was behind me. I'm not into sound yet so I haven't tried any of those decoders. It was hard enough for me to give up my block wiring and go to DCC, one step at a time into the future. 

  Now just in case I would break out and get a sound decoder who is using what. Never know this old trick could be taught a new dog , or something like that. 

  George Keller
  Bellevue,Ohio 

---- NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote: 

> Actually, my question is more about isolation of the motor from the frame.  Is it needed?   I hate the little plugs, even if they are Deans, so I have been hard wiring the harnesses, isolating the drawbars, and modifying the tenders to isolate the trucks from the tender frame so I can use one truck for each rail for power.   I cooked a Digitrax 163 decoder in January, and haven’t tried again on that engine.  I’ve pathetically just run the other M as DC.  Still unpainted.

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> Mark Lindsey

> Stuck in the 1930's

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> On 5/25/11 10:15 PM, "NW Modeling List" <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

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> Mark,

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> I've installed Tsunamis in my Sunset M & M-2s. They fit without any real issues in both tenders. I have a 12,000 gallon tender on the M and a 9,000 gallon on the M-2. My other M-2s have the 12,000 & 15,000 gallon ones but I haven't done any installations on them.

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> Everything is in the tender and a pair of plugs run the motor & lighting to the engine.

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> Roger Huber

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> --- On Wed, 5/25/11, NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

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> From: NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>

> Subject: Sunset 4-8-0's

> To: "NW Modeling List" <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>

> Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 3:01 PM

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> I plan to install DCC into my pair of HO scale Sunset M's.  They run smooth

> as silk on DC, but I need the lights and such to work as well.  Has anyone

> had good luck putting the DCC into these cramped lil models?  I want to use

> a 163 decoder.

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> Mark Lindsey

> Stuck in the 1930's

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