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Athearn GP40-2 DCC ready

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Posted by maxman on Thursday, November 8, 2018 12:25 AM

NS6770fan
it says 8 or 9 pin in the description, but 21 pin in the overview.

Might be both.  I have a RTR SD40-2 which had a place to plug in an 8-pin, and also a harness to connect the 21 pin.

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Posted by rrinker on Wednesday, November 7, 2018 8:15 PM

 If it's like most locos these days, the older runs had 9 pin connections - lots of RTR models are like that. The newest runs though - the 21 pin connection is becoming a lot moore common. 

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Posted by BigDaddy on Wednesday, November 7, 2018 4:33 PM

Somebody at Athearn knows, just not the guy that wrote up the ad.  Or maybe he/she does, but had one of the brain bubbles.

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Posted by jjdamnit on Wednesday, November 7, 2018 3:56 PM

Hello all,

I would direct this question to the great folks at Athearn.

Every time I emailed them a question they responded quickly and honestly.

By honestly I mean; I asked them about the PCB in their rotary snow plow. I was converting it from DC to DCC.

Their first response was they didn't know what the PCB was for.

After explaining what I was doing they got back to me, after checking with others at Athearn, and answered my question. 

When they heard about my conversion they wanted me to keep them up to date on the conversion for their knowledge.

I did let them know of my progress and the conversion was a success. I also converted the B-unit from un-powered to powered.

Hope this helps.

"Uhh...I didn’t know it was 'impossible' I just made it work...sorry"

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Athearn GP40-2 DCC ready
Posted by NS6770fan on Saturday, November 3, 2018 7:47 PM

I plan on ordering an Athearn RTR Conrail GP40-2 when they come out.  I will be installing a sound decoder in the loco, but on athearns website, it says 8 or 9 pin in the description, but 21 pin in the overview. Does anyone know which it is? 

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