QUOTE (simonj @ 29 Sep 2007, 11:25)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>his Thomas the Tank engine wasn't prototypical(the eyes were too close together).
QUOTE (simonj @ 29 Sep 2007, 11:25)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Those updated diagrams you mention, will some show where you can place the DCC chip in a tender powered N loco? (main body or tender?)
Hmmm. Depends if it is meant to have a decoder installed - there are presumably three options -
DCC ready and it comes with a chip socket (e.g. Minitrix RE 460),
DCC friendly/optimised and it comes with the wiring deliberately designed for a decoder to be soldered in (e.g. Hobbytrain Taurus) or
DCC- do you mean Digital Compact Cassette? in which case the designer didn't give any thought to anything except making the design as simple and efficient for the manufacturing process in which case the decoder must go where-ever it will fit, presumably in the tender/first coach etc.
The best course of action is presumably just to open the model up and have a look at what is possible!
Miniaturisation should make this less of a problem with every iteration. If space is very tight then just wait for the Lenz Platinum or Palladium or Osmium!! Or Lenz Copper?!
Goedel
(who swears by(at) the Lenz Protactinium chipset.)