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I've had great success with the current Digitrax DH163KO drop-in board in old Kato (actually Stewart and Atlas w/Kato drives) engines, and I'm about to try the NCE DA-SR in one I haven't converted yet. As mentioned above, the Digitrax boards have metal clips you can fold the motor leads around -- the NCE has a spot for them, but doesn't have the clips themselves, though they'll be easy to make. Also, the Digitrax has solder pads in the center for the Kato drives that have the light bulb mounted in the center to light up both front and rear lights, such as those on the RS and GP units; the NCE doesn't have that, but it'd be easy to use the regular front outputs and cover the bulb leads with heat shrink tubing to prevent it from shorting out when you lay it in the center. For F-units, of course, the center pad doesn't matter. <br /> <br />Update: I was just on the TCS site and see that they now also make a drop-in board for Kato-based locos. It's the A1X, and TCS makes pretty good decoders for a pretty reasonable price. I'll definitely give this one a try too (I have a LOT of old Atlas and Stewart engines to convert. [:)]).
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