Not talking about the Soundtraxx decoder (which I installed myself). I’m talking about the capacitors that are on the PC board inside the long-haul tender of the N scale Heavy Mountain (not part of the Tsunami decoder) to which the Tsunami decoder is soldered. I can remove those capacitors on the PC board, right?
Got a pic? the ones that interfere with the motor operation with a decoder imnstalled are very small ones, not little can shaped electrolytic types.
–Randy
None of those wires are bare they have a clear coating on them.
If you remove the tender shell there should be a six pin plug in the front of the tender.
Looking down on the tender. #1 pin being left front
#1 rail pick up you will need an ohm meter tocheck if right or left. by checking it to the wheels
#2 motor I beleive negetive lead
#3 headlight
#4 headlight
#5 motor lead positive
#6 the other rail pick up
You will have to use ohm and volt meter to conferm positive and negetive for each pin but this is how Bachmann wired the tender. As far as where the wires go. It has been a while but I have converted a few of these. Hope this helps.
Truck.
Oh I know. The cap that came with the Soundtraxx decoder is blue and is can-shaped. The ones I’m going to cut are box shapped and are significantly smaller. They are on the TENDER PC board.
So you confirmed my suspicions that the tender drawbar and the #1 and #6 wires are redundant electrical pickups. Thanks.
Here’s a link to the pinouts of the 2 Bachmann connectors:
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I did not take the time to look up my drawings, but I asure that is not the correct pinout for all Bachmann locos.
They have changed the pinout a number of times of the production of Spectrum and improved regular line locomotives.
I have “repined” a number of locos for tender swaps.
Sheldon
Take heed of what Sheldon wrote – Bachmann has changed the pinouts a number of times between production runs, and a Consolidation may not be the same as a Mountain.