There are quite a number of small decoders available: NCE, Digitrax, DCC Concepts - I could go on. Most of these will have 1A continuous rating. The harness is usually problematic but I've done a few.

John

 

Dimensions should have read 25 x 16 x 5 mms.

There is clearly room for a decoder inside the front end of the boiler/smokebox but 16 mms is far too wide to fit, more like 12 mms diameter

 

Removed suggestion!

Edit: Oops - should have read more closely! It is indeed the Jinty.

 

QUOTE (RFS @ 19 Jun 2012, 08:07) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I thought this loco had a 21-pin decoder socket that was located in the tender?
Sadly not. It's an 0-6-0 tank........ An if I'm not mistaken the model mentioned in the o/p was Preston station Pilot...

Ian

 

Sorry yes, it's the jinty not the tender 3F. Not fully awake yet so I've edited my post.

However this issue has been raised before - see here Decoder for Jinty

 

*** I have two of them fitted with the DCCconcepts S2 and the stay alive... both fit easily in the boiler.

Do not forget to remove the capacitors.

Richard

 

QUOTE (Prescotian @ 19 Jun 2012, 00:09) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>... is there a way of locating the decoder in the locos body that is eluding me at the moment?
When this model first appeared, I put a Lenz Silver in the cab (similar size to your 36-552). Bachmann have done a good job on the metal packing, and that's the only void for a larger decoder. That was hardwired (no socket on early versions) required some cutting internally to make the wiring path, and the loco body remains tethered by the wiring to the chassis. All a bit of a faff, but that was the decoder I had by me at the time. Later, on another example I used a Lenz mini, very easy, that just pops into the void in the smokebox: and a larger decoder will go in if the ballast weight in the smokebox is removed, there's two or three screws underneath on the centreline (lots of screws for such a little piece is what I remember).

Well worth cutting small rebates in the keeper plate to allow the sprung centre axle an extra half millimetre of downward travel BTW, helps pick up reliability.

 

I can second Richard's comment. I also have a Jinty with a DCC decoder and stay alive fitted very easily.

 

Reply from Transport Matters, "Hello, Hornby Decoders are smaller and will fit into the smokebox. Regards. Martyn - Transport Models".

 

steer away from the Hornby decoder and go for the stay alive especially on a 0-6-0 loco.

 

For those who collect such things, there is a review of the DCC On Board Jinty in BRM October 2006. The author ended up taking the Bachmann decoder out because there were no instructions for adjusting CVs for slow running. He mentions the Zimo MX 63R and TCS M1 as being suitable (these may well be obsolete now). My experience with Hornby and Bachmann decoders is that CV support is quite sparse.

John