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I took TOC's advice from the start and rip out any factory boards and simply wire everything directly to the decoder, except where I add relays where I'm going to exceed the output rating.  The only touchy issue I've found with ripping out factory boards is determining whether any lights are LEDs and hence whether the resistor is in the board.  But, if you can see that the bulb is an LED, simply add your own resistor when wiring directly to the decoder - and because LEDs are polarity sensitve, bench test it if the wire colors don't already give it away.I've only converted Bachmann's but I've been using NCE D13SRs in G scale and have yet to have a problem.  If I'm pulling 6 to 7 cars on flat track with 5' diameter curves with a decoder rated at 1.3/2 amps, something is terribly wrong if you're blowing higher rated decoders.  I measure between .5 and .7 amps at 14 volts in the above scenario.  I've also had some collisions without blowing a decoder.  To avoid discussions about stall current etc., I'm not necessarily advocating these decoders for Gscale, the only point being there is something wrong if you're blowing higher rated ones.Are you talking to Larry at NCE?  I usually get same day response from him.
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