NEM 651 6 pin with standard harness

[topito]

Hi friends: I´ve a Rivarossi S100 0-6-0 with a NEM 651 socket (6 pins) and I want to  connect an ESU Loksound V4 micro sellect with a 8 cable harnes.  The green cable is unused, the problen is what to do with the blue (common) cable.  It´s possible solder the cables to a 6 pin male connector leaving the blue common unsoldered?.  It will work without the blue cable?.

Thanks for your replies

 

Best regards

[rrinker]

 The other side of the lights, that would normally go to the blue wire, are instead connected to one of the rail pickups - this is what is often called "half wave" lighting. So yes, you can leave off the blue wire.

                          --Randy

[topito]

Thanks Randy.  By the way, I´ve seen that  in the LokPilot from ESU (mobile decoder) with  NEM 651 harnes the blue cable remains in the decoder but free, unsoldered to the connector

 

[rrinker]

 Yes, so you can hook it up the usual way. But then you'd have to cut the blue wire to remove the decoder. Seems like a silly interface. Maybe makes sense on old locos where the headlight is grounded to the frame and only has one wire, but then it wouldn;t have the socket for that plug anyway. Seems like it was mostly for N scale to keep the size down.

                            --Randy