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Recommended Decoder for Proto 2000 PA

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Posted by rrinker on Tuesday, May 13, 2014 1:13 PM

 That top photo is the N scale version. Note the Rapido couplers. ANd open frame motor.

       --Randy


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Posted by richhotrain on Tuesday, May 13, 2014 2:27 PM

rrinker

 That top photo is the N scale version. Note the Rapido couplers. ANd open frame motor.

       --Randy

 

Oops, is that not what the early release looks like?

Rich

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Posted by riogrande5761 on Tuesday, May 13, 2014 9:15 PM

I'm afraid photo's of the N scale PA won't help me as I have the HO PA.  

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Posted by rrinker on Tuesday, May 13, 2014 9:38 PM

richhotrain
 
rrinker

 That top photo is the N scale version. Note the Rapido couplers. ANd open frame motor.

       --Randy

 

 

 

Oops, is that not what the early release looks like?

Rich

 

 Maybe the N scale early release. No idea, I do HO.

The bottom one is a DCC ready HO one - the 8 pin dummy plug is sort of under all the wires heading to the front from the circuit board. That's one with a Mars light, the 3 wires from the right rear of the circuit board are the common and two filament wires for the dual filament bulb they used to simulate the Mars light.

                --Randy

 


Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's

 

Visit my web site at www.readingeastpenn.com for construction updates, DCC Info, and more.

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Posted by richhotrain on Wednesday, May 14, 2014 12:08 AM

rrinker

 

 
richhotrain
 
rrinker

 That top photo is the N scale version. Note the Rapido couplers. ANd open frame motor.

       --Randy

 

 

 

Oops, is that not what the early release looks like?

Rich

 

 

 

 Maybe the N scale early release. No idea, I do HO.

The bottom one is a DCC ready HO one - the 8 pin dummy plug is sort of under all the wires heading to the front from the circuit board. That's one with a Mars light, the 3 wires from the right rear of the circuit board are the common and two filament wires for the dual filament bulb they used to simulate the Mars light.

                --Randy

 

 

 

The first photo is one I found, but I thought that it was the early release.  Sorry about that.

That second photo is my HO scale PA, and it is the later release.

Rich

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Posted by OldDBA on Saturday, December 30, 2017 3:51 PM

Rather than start a new thread, I thought I would bring this old one on the subject back to the top...

I have a P2K PA unit of the same generation as the B-unit pictured here, and I am converting it to DCC with a Digitrax DN136PS decoder... Simple "plug and plan" EXCEPT - the oscillating "Mars" light doesn't work under DCC (it works flawlessly on DC with the factory "plug" installed)...  Since the light worked fine with the DC plug, I (wrongly?) assumed it would function fine with the DCC decoder, since the DC plug only uses the same 8-pin socket as the decoder..??

FWIW: The Life Like P2K documentation says nothing at all about DCC conversion, so...???

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