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Hi Neil,
I fitted a Decoder to my Mallard @ the weekend, and that was so fiddly it left me extremely exhausted after three hours of fiddling to get it all back together
The Lubrication Assembly dropped off of the body after I had disconnected it from the chassis / wheel (they don't make em like they used to) and it was magnifying glass and tweezers time to get it back into place (why cant they make the hidden details a bit bigger for older eyes n fingers ?)
Anyway I found that the pendolino body popped off really easily unplugged the decoder plugged it back in again tried it same problem
After having a look at it I decided BOOM OR BUST to swap over the wiring for the red n white lights (Dead easy pull off push on clips and bent wires held together on PCB) Initially the lights were working fine and as they should be.
The red is red when its supposed to be and the white is white when its supposed to be
Then Disaster struck, the LH RH side running lights are fine (white), the red light is fine, all operating and switching correctley the main central main Headlight Light died, after about 3 minutes running the loco.
I assume that the current draw for the three white led's and the current draw for the single red led are different and somewhere either in the decoder or on the PCB something died due to me switching over the wiring.
But the main thing is we have red when it is supposed to be red and white when it is supposed to white (minus 1)
My next problem is to try to work out if I need to buy a new PCB, I already know the decoder is crap.
I love your Blog and Videos by the way Neil, My Daughter wouldnt go to bed till she had seen all of the videos, and now she wants more carriages