Yes, this is a hardwire installation for anything beyond DC. There's very little room to work with. Disconnect the wires and discard (well, put in the spare parts box - none of us ever actually throws anything out, right?) the board.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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Send an email to Walthers. They should be able to send you a PDF via return email. They've done that for me.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Thanks Ed! I believe you are correct that the SW8 and SW9 were electrically similar. Both have a circuit board and the drop in decoder from NCE is the same one for both switchers. Also, the circuit board appears to be same shape as the NCE drop-in decoder. Based on this drawing, it looks like I need to remove the circuit board and directly solder the appropriate wires to the Rail Pro decoder. That's my guess...
Thanks again!
Rick
This says SW-8 / 900 / 600 hope that's the one you're looking for.
L-L_SW by Edmund, on Flickr
L-L_SW_0001 by Edmund, on Flickr
L-L_SW_0002 by Edmund, on Flickr
L-L_SW_0003 by Edmund, on Flickr
L-L_SW_0004 by Edmund, on Flickr
L-L_SW_0005 by Edmund, on Flickr
L-L_SW_0006 by Edmund, on Flickr
L-L_SW_0007 by Edmund, on Flickr
There are photos of the older run SW-8/ 9/ 1200/ 900/ 600 here:
http://tcsdcc.com/installation/ho-scale/life-sw891200/m1
Hope that helps —
Cheers, Ed
Does anyone have a copy of P2K SW9 manual? If so, can you send me a link or an electronic copy? I would like to review the diagrams and make a decision on parts needed to convert from DC to Rail Pro digital control.
Has anyone done this conversion (Rail pro with 9 pin connector or other system)? Any tips?
Thanks