Does the LokSound Select have an 8-pin harness?

Model Railroader Electronics and DCC
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I want to buy a DCC Sound Decoder and in the past have bought a Tsunami TS-1000. The Tsunami looked good till I received it in the mail and saw that there was no harness. I was wondering if the LokSound Select had an 8-pin harness because I want to avoid what did last time I bought a decoder.

Thank You,

Lop Il

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If you trim the plastic back from the Tsunami you can change the harness to one with an 8 pin. TCS sells them all lengths. Trimming the plastic back doesn’t void the warranty. - Nevin

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Does it need to be soldered together?

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Also which do you think is better?

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What loco are you putting this in?

There are two kinds of connectors commonly found on decoders (and another used generally by European loco makers). One is on the decoder itself and uses 9 pins in a straight row. The other is usualyl found on the end of wires and uses 8 pins in 2 rows of 4. The pinouts of these is standard - so you aren’t limited to using what a given decoder manufacturer supplies as long as the decoder has a 9 pin connector on it. TCS has a wide variety of 9 pin to 8 pin harnesses in various lengths - so you don;t have a foto of wire to try and curl up inside without touching anything. There are also harnesses that go 9 pin to plain wires (what the Tsunami comes with) and Digitrax has one that is 9 pin to the clips used on Athearn Blue Box locos.

–Randy