Hi
Any suggestions on what chip to put in a Stewart Hobbies Baldwin VO-1000. It looks a little tightbunderbthe hood
my Dcc controller is a NCE
regards
Sound, or not sound? I use TCS T-1's in mine for non-sound, they fit fine.
http://www.readingeastpenn.com/decoderinstall.htm
(top one - also shows how I bend the leads of some golden-white LEDs to repalce the stock yellow ones.)
It does fit fine, but if you are concerned then the MC2 from TCS would take up even less space.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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Sorry not sound at the moment
I used the Lil soundtrax unit (non sound ) mc1h102p8 ,it just plugs in and goes ,not bad .
0n my sound one I used the tsunami bw1000 w/Baldwin 608 its not exact match but the sound samples sound very close to the power plant of the vo-1000,to me anyhow
its not a difficult install at all even put in a rotary beacon made out of the old yellow led head lite(I replaced the stk ones ), great engine sound still not happy with my horn choice ...Jerry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RYYPHe1Mss
Thanks, I can get the TCS chips in the UK and thn start to save up for a sound chip later
stephen
Stephen, I almost wrote to say you must be from the UK. Chip seems to have become the de facto term for a decoder in the UK and the verb, to chip, describes the action of installing said chip. Do you get your American locos from the US, or from a UK source? If you have not used TCS decoders before, you are in for a treat. The auto setting BEMF (Make sure you get one with BEMF and not an old stock decoder) work superbly. Look at the slow crawl of this loco using a T1 decoder with keep alive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBgCaBHZ8UU&list=UU2p1cqCGy-W5bPsoinOHZmA&index=3&feature=plcp I happen to be a Brit living on the other side of the pond, so enjoy running British stuff on US rails.
Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum
Does seem to be very common usage lately. However, if I ever get the chance to visit the UK and order chips, I'll be expecting something to eat, not something to install in my models
Haven't videod one of my Stewart switchers, but one of them I often spend my time switchign the coal ard ont he club layout with, and it goes so smoothly and slowly with the T1 decoder that I can watch the Kadee couplers open as it inches into a car. Hmm, I may have pulled my camera car with it on one trip, but the video I have up is a trip using my MTH FA's. I have to get on the ball and finish processing the other ones, it's only been since July.
Yes UK based will specify the emf version. When installed will be having a run out on the local club's layout called 'Menasha' as the switcher
regrds