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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by TonyWalsham Welcome to LS and Battery R/C Figure 8. For basic set ups the installation is very straightforward. You connect the battery pack to the + & - terminals on Motor Driver and the output to the motor. Four wires. The loco track pick ups MUST be isolated from the track. You can rewire the lights to be on constantly and change direction but you can leave them as is to start with. You may need to add the suppression components I supply to the motor. For future installations you will need to decide whether or not you want sound and if it is to be controlled by R/C as well. It can be quite easily. Best wishes,Tony Walsham (RCS). [/quote] Tony, thanks for the detailed and generous reply. From browsing the internet I can tell that you and RCS have a good reputation, and I'm interested in your products. But your reply is actually the kind of reply that has discouraged me over the past couple weeks: To someone like you, the modifications you're describing sound extremely simple. To someone like me, without seeing each step illustrated in photos and without very detailed text, it's like you're speaking greek. Tony, I can't even figure out how to take the plastic case off of these engines, let alone locate the track pickups. For another example, I'd presumably need to drill holes in the loco and solder a male/female receptacle onto the wires leading into your Motor Driver (to allow disconnects of the battery car from the loco). There are so many confusing details that only detailed, annotated photographs would clear up for me. So I guess my question remains the same: Does anybody provide an affordable battery+R/C installation service? If not, is there a bullet-proof tutorial online that shows exactly what to do on this kind of loco? (If not for this kind of loco, at least for some other low-end 1:20 - 1:24 scale diesel switcher/narrow gauge/smallish engines?) Thanks again. F8
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