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American Flyer 336 Northern W/ Speaker

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American Flyer 336 Northern W/ Speaker
Posted by ED WHITFORD on Monday, January 25, 2010 7:10 PM

I need some help with this. For the life of me I can not get the wiring worked out for the sound. This is all original and the only reason for me redoing the wires is they got old and brittle. Sad to say but I just can not remember how the speaker system was hooked up. I have everything else working just fine. And well..........I got distracted with our 2 boys and forgot to write down what went where.

If some one could help me out I would apreciate it very much.

Thank you. 

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Posted by lionelsoni on Monday, January 25, 2010 7:36 PM

Does this look anything like what you've got?  The (5 microfarad) capacitor and the (68 ohm) resistor are in parallel; and that combination is in series with the speaker.  The whole thing is connected across the two rails.

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Posted by ED WHITFORD on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:14 PM

Yes it dose look somthing like that. The only things differant are the way it is set up. The resistor and the capacitor are on top one another. will it matter as to what gets placed onto wich truck ? One speaker wire is going to the resistor and capacitor and the other to nothing. 

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Posted by lionelsoni on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 4:41 PM

Which end to which truck doesn't matter.  (If you picked up the locomotive and faced it the other way, you would effectively swap the ends of the circuit; but you would still expect it to work.)

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