That top photo is the N scale version. Note the Rapido couplers. ANd open frame motor.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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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
Alton Junction
I'm afraid photo's of the N scale PA won't help me as I have the HO PA.
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
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.
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.
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...???