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Walthers Proto controller pad for DCC locomotives running on dc layouts - name -?

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Walthers Proto controller pad for DCC locomotives running on dc layouts - name -?
Posted by onrman3 on Saturday, April 6, 2019 11:02 AM

Recently we had a disasterous flood in our basement and among the train items destroyed was a Walthers Proto pad that connected between my transformer and the layout. It enabled me to activate sounds on my dcc locomotives that ran on my dc layout. I know that this item is most likely no longer made but I am attempting to find it on Ebay and I do not know the name of it. It did not have a name on it - only that Walthers made it. I beleive that it was, made under license because I think another company aslo made it. Any help?

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Posted by mbinsewi on Saturday, April 6, 2019 11:20 AM

I did some searching on Walthers site,  your sure it was a Walthers product?

MRC has such controllers.

Maybe go search around on Walthers and see what you can find.

https://www.walthers.com/

And MRC:

https://www.modelrectifier.com/

Maybe you can find what you had.

Mike.

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Posted by onrman3 on Saturday, April 6, 2019 11:44 AM

Hi, that is the issue I did search Walthers - no luck=. It was a Walthers product. I do not know the item code.

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Posted by mbinsewi on Saturday, April 6, 2019 12:46 PM

If you still have old one, can you find any numbers on it, any way of identifying it

Can you post a picture?

Mike.

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Posted by gmpullman on Saturday, April 6, 2019 12:54 PM

onrman3
I beleive that it was, made under license because I think another company aslo made it. Any help?

 

Broadway Limited had the DC Master, too.

 

http://www.broadway-limited.com/bli-1011dcmasteranalogcontrolmodule.aspx

 It was also sold by Walthers.

https://www.walthers.com/dcmaster-analog-control-module-for-paragon-2-blue-line-loksound-models

 

Good Luck, Ed

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Posted by onrman3 on Saturday, April 6, 2019 1:59 PM

Hi yes that is true. The old one that I had was black with many buttons on it. 

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Posted by rrinker on Saturday, April 6, 2019 4:32 PM

 You're probably talking about the QSI Quantum Engineer. Life Like and Broadway both sold it with their own name on it as well, and that probbaly carried over to Walthers when they bought Life Like.

 The simple 2 button product was for Loksound decoders, the many button one was for QSI decoders. There's no equivalent for Tsunamis.

                                      --Randy


Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's

 

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Posted by BigDaddy on Saturday, April 6, 2019 5:29 PM

onrman3
Hi yes that is true. The old one that I had was black with many buttons on it.

I'm on moderation, so this won't appear until Monday, but there is a Atlas Quantum Engineer on Ebay.  It fits the description of many buttons.

Henry

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Posted by onrman3 on Saturday, April 6, 2019 5:40 PM

Of course thank you!

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