Well, I wasn't expecting all this information so quickly. Thanks to you all.
(...and for David B: no, I didn't have any explaination, even in pictures, with the loco...)
Paul
richg1998 You will have to solder the seven wires to a eight pin NMRA plug.Rich
You will have to solder the seven wires to a eight pin NMRA plug.
Rich
For me that was a big problem. I finally gave up and hard wired the darn thing.
Lee
Below is a link to an install. You can download the PDF document to your PC. Follow the instructions.
http://www.tcsdcc.com/Customer_Content/Installation_Pictures/HO_Scale/Bachmann/Spectrum%204-6-0/TCS%20Decoder%20Install,%20Bachmann%204-6-0.html#page_top
http://www.tcsdcc.com/Customer_Content/Installation_Pictures/HO_Scale/Bachmann/Spectrum%20Baldwin%202-8-0/Bachmman_Spectrum_baldwin_2-8-0.html
If you ever fall over in public, pick yourself up and say “sorry it’s been a while since I inhabited a body.” And just walk away.
Thanks Rich, I'll follow your instructions.
...and if anyone else has ideas and advice, shoot!
Remove the tender shell, unplug the DC adapter fron the NMRA socket, plug in a decoder that has the eight pin plug. A Digitrax DZ125 decoder would work fine as it has BackEMF. You will have to solder the seven wires to a eight pin NMRA plug.
Hi.
After 15 years "off the air", I've finally come back to my model trains. Of course, things have evolved quite some in the decade and a half, mainly with DCC.
I've just bought a Bachmann Spectrum 4-6-0, which is supposed to be DCC ready, with the intent to install a decoder myself. I have no problems with electronics so the new technologies are coming pretty quickly but I am quite confused as I cannot figure out if should install the decoder in the tender which has a small PCB (that I will probably have to remove) or in the loco itself. Before starting to take the loco apart, I prefer to ask my dumb questions!!
Thanks for any help