help. athearn DCC hookup

[greendiamond]

Your two truck pickups are from the same side of the rail and should be hooked up to the RED decoder wire. The BLACK wire hooks up to the frame or the light bracket touching the frame. Make sure the brass strip on the bottom of the motor is not touching the frame at ALL. Don't need the blue wire for the front headlight. Just hook up the white or white and yellow together( if you dont want directional lighting)to the copper strip coming off the back of the headlight. ANOTHER NOTE! CUT THAT COPPER STRIP JUST LONG ENOUGH TO SOLDER TO. IT SHOULD NOT TOUCH THE TRUCK PICK UP OR YOU'LL FRY THE FUNCTION OUTPUT!

Hope this helps!

Michael Tyl
Green Diamond Hobbies
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DCC Dealer

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[Anonymous]

I have an Athearn Diesel (GP60) double flywheel. and cannot get Digitrax DH142 connected without a short.. have gray wire from bottom of eng. to gray from decoder, orange from top clip (engine) to orange on decoder. white from (only) light bulb to white on decoder, wired from bulb holder clip to blue on decoder. wire from front right side wheel clip to red on decoder and wire from rear wheel clip (it is on right side too) to black from decoder. It shorts out. switching the front for rear wheel clip wires - still shorts out.. it is wired exactly as in Digitrax DH142 diagram... what did I do wrong???

thanks

Ken