Parting out A BL 2 PK 2000 question. circurt board question

[cudaken]

 Before the BL 2 lover's jump up in arms it not under the knife, in fact I have I am still watting on it. All so if you look at the first posting about the BL's you could have this one.

 But, what I was thinking was to rob the 5 skew motor and use it in a BB Athearn. I am not ready for DCC yet. Not worried about drive shaft sizes yet , that will come if I part it out and still may not.

 So what is the question? Does the motor have to have a circute board to run or is it just for the lights?

            Cuda Ken 

[Nataraj]

you could use the athearn circut board with a p2k motor. The board is for you to plug in a decoder and lights.

[msowsun]

The circuit board is just a convienient way to wire the motor, lights, DCC, or whatever to the track voltage. 

The BL-2 does not have a circuit board. It has a little bundle of 6 diodes that make a 1.5v directional constant lighting circuit.   

It works just like this one..... http://mrollins.com/constant.html

 

[cudaken]

So Msowsun, my BB's are the old 70's with no board. Making it simple yank the dioeds and wire it to the trucks. I know there will be more to it with wiring but I am on the right track?

 

             Ken 

[rrinker]

  If you can do the mechnical fit, the P2K motor will work fine in the Athearn. The P2K circuit board is only for the lights, it is not required to make the motor operate.

                                    --Randy

[Anonymous]

Agree with what everyone else wrote above - the circuit board is for the lights and decoder plug in if you want.  When I installed a decoded in my P2K BL2s, I tossed the circuit board altogether, since it wasn't really necessary - the decoder controls the lights.