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<p>Thanks for all the help and encouragement.  I did get the two forward light wires soldiered to their pads.  I also programmed CV49 & CV50 with various values (0,2,34,45) though it seemed even with the default values for any of the CV49-V54 values that I should be seeing some kind of lightning effect.  No?  Still no light.  Do I need to activate the function (F0) for CV49/CV50 or enable any other setting to turn this on?</p><p>Do I need to add a resistor and if so what size?  I thought I was told with this particular decoder that it was already built in and I would not need to add a resister.  If so is 680 ohm adeqate?  Is 1k ohm better?  Does this envolve splicing into the light wire or simply soldiering an additional wire to the same pad?  The wiring diagrams packed with the decoder incorporate the reverse light wires.  This particular engine has no reverse lights or wires.  Do I still need to wire something to the reverse light tabs even though nothing was there with the orginal board?  Will radio shack have appropriate resistors?  Sorry for all the questions, but while online information is available they also seem to assume a further level of knowledge about what you are doing and some is contradictory. </p>
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