Mini Plugs

[wholeman]

I have used 2 pin mini plugs to connect a speaker in a loco.  I am going to hard wire some decoders in a couple of my locos and was wondering if a mini plug would be good to connect the power pick up wires from the trucks to the wires on the decoder.  Is this a good idea?

I like to completely remove the trucks and give them a thorough cleaning whenever I service the locos.

[steam passenger]

The simple answer is YES you can use mini plugs for track pick-up to your decoder...     Generally, if you are wiring decoders in a steam locomotive you need to transfer power and/or lighting between the tender and the locomotive...  Mini plugs allow you to take the two units apart when ever you desire...

Bob...

[wholeman]

Thank You for the response.

Do you know of an online store that sells a variety of these?  The last set I got was from Ulrich Models.  I am also looking for 1 pin plugs so I can use them for only connect/disconnecting a single wire that will fit in a loco.

[Allegheny2-6-6-6]

 You can try either one of these two, All electronics how ever is hit or miss some times but Micormark definitely carries them as I've purchased them myself. I especially like to use them for the lighting connections as I hate having the loco shell tethered to the chassis of I want to do some work on it.

 

 

http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/category/189/Connectors-Multi-Pin-/1.html

 

http://www.micromark.com/MINI-CONNECTOR-KIT-PKG-OF-10,8839.html

[rdgk1se3019]

wholeman

I have used 2 pin mini plugs to connect a speaker in a loco.  I am going to hard wire some decoders in a couple of my locos and was wondering if a mini plug would be good to connect the power pick up wires from the trucks to the wires on the decoder.  Is this a good idea?

I like to completely remove the trucks and give them a thorough cleaning whenever I service the locos.

 

Hello.

I recently did this on a P2K GP30 sound decoder install......I bought the wrong type of decoder......Tsunami AT-1000 instead of a TSU-1000.....but I made it work......I used the mini plugs from soundtraxx so the decoder is completely removable from the loco...also I used the two pin mini plug so the body shell can be removed also.