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Hi to all,
This will be my first ever hardwiring.
I have 3 locos left, Flm Br55 steamer, Flm 1043 lectric and Roco Br57 steamer, all waiting to be hardwired.
One has to start from somewhere and being hopeless in electrical bits I planned to do this online with all the help of the DCC wizards in MRF.
Participation from everybody will be highly appreciated. As we go along I am hoping that this thread will be usefull to the kinds of us who has never done a conversion before.
Please forgive my daft questions as we go along. This thread will be a pictural conversion so feel free to ask from me to take pictures of a part/section from different angles if we are in a doubt.
The first stage will be to dismantle the loco and just explore:
Oh how I love the boxes of Flm locos, just flip over and start unscrewing and once the screws ( 2 from loco body, 1 from tender ) are out just flip over without damaging any delicate pieces on the loco body.
This is the view after dismantaling the loco body.
Beautiful cab interior...have a stronge urge to weather it
...but later.
Checking the underside of the loco body I noticed a space for a loudspeaker !
a double Esu mini..
...which fits in perfectly......but
...after opening the tender all plans of using a sound decoder faded away. There is hardly any space to breath in.
. So the space found in the loco body is for the decoder. Thats certain for now.
anyway,
Taking the side panels off we come on to the chassis. Pickups are all from the 4x4 wheels and two (red & black) cables goes to the tender. Now what is below the (?) I have no clue. But we will come back to that.
The front light mechanism. The bulb gets one polarity from the chassis and the other ? Should we get rid of these and put in LEDs?
Here is the motor with the isolated backplate next to it.
..and another view.
The board in front of the motor which I probably named it wrong passes the current to the tender lights
...just like this. I guess the light has to be isolated as well , or LEDs.
This is all for now. The problem is that I did not see any capacitors/resistors of any sort that most DCC'ers say clip them off. I am worried that they might,and that is if there are any, be under the part that was (?) in the loco chassis. If so I would be terrified because that means taking off the rod assembly. Hope it doesn't come to that.
Now how should I proceed ?
Baykal
This will be my first ever hardwiring.
I have 3 locos left, Flm Br55 steamer, Flm 1043 lectric and Roco Br57 steamer, all waiting to be hardwired.
One has to start from somewhere and being hopeless in electrical bits I planned to do this online with all the help of the DCC wizards in MRF.
Participation from everybody will be highly appreciated. As we go along I am hoping that this thread will be usefull to the kinds of us who has never done a conversion before.
Please forgive my daft questions as we go along. This thread will be a pictural conversion so feel free to ask from me to take pictures of a part/section from different angles if we are in a doubt.
The first stage will be to dismantle the loco and just explore:

Oh how I love the boxes of Flm locos, just flip over and start unscrewing and once the screws ( 2 from loco body, 1 from tender ) are out just flip over without damaging any delicate pieces on the loco body.

This is the view after dismantaling the loco body.

Beautiful cab interior...have a stronge urge to weather it


Checking the underside of the loco body I noticed a space for a loudspeaker !

a double Esu mini..

...which fits in perfectly......but

...after opening the tender all plans of using a sound decoder faded away. There is hardly any space to breath in.

anyway,

Taking the side panels off we come on to the chassis. Pickups are all from the 4x4 wheels and two (red & black) cables goes to the tender. Now what is below the (?) I have no clue. But we will come back to that.

The front light mechanism. The bulb gets one polarity from the chassis and the other ? Should we get rid of these and put in LEDs?

Here is the motor with the isolated backplate next to it.

..and another view.

The board in front of the motor which I probably named it wrong passes the current to the tender lights

...just like this. I guess the light has to be isolated as well , or LEDs.
This is all for now. The problem is that I did not see any capacitors/resistors of any sort that most DCC'ers say clip them off. I am worried that they might,and that is if there are any, be under the part that was (?) in the loco chassis. If so I would be terrified because that means taking off the rod assembly. Hope it doesn't come to that.
Now how should I proceed ?
Baykal