Basic info which might help some here or at least expand their knowlege of this decoder a little. This is the shrink wrapped version, not the light board type.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI3tixOqNLY
This might help those who don’t read instruction sheets. You can download the video to your PC. You can stop the video and enlarge the picture for more detail.
His guy has many good suggestions if you take time to look through his video list.
Rich
Thanks for posting that, Rich. Good stuff. I only wish he had gone ahead and completed the install in a loco.
If you get a You Tube account, contact him. Also look though all his videos. Even now, I suspect he may be doing what you would like.
I have been using You Tube a lot for about four years.
For some months he has been doing a lot of projects and posting the videos when he gets time.
I doubt he will ever come here as he likes the Yahoo SoundTraxx Group a lot and is very active in that Group.
All decoders come with instructions and you can download many useful documents.
Rich
That guy floats with disaster. That should be a WHAT NOT TO DO VIDIEO. He is connecting his track wires, and all the other wires with tinned ends could short out to each other the way they are just bundled up lying next to each other. I smell smoke!!!
Truck.
He expects you to use common sense. We all come with common sense.
Use insulation. I have done what he does but use insulation, a little tape, what ever works. I use the same double clip leads for testing, though I have made my own decoder tester using an old can motor from a CD drive, 8 pin NMRA connector and a couple LED’s, mounted on a plastic project box.
Rich
Make sure you use a little insulation on loose wire ends and over each clip lead which connects to a wire.
I always have a supply of vinyl tape in different colors, plus small shrink tube with the standard NMRA colors.
I have done things like this in many electronics projects and insulation will help prevent accidents.
I started using insulation like that many years ago when building ham radio/shortwave projects that used as much as 300 volts DC.
This precaution still pays off with low voltage projects.
You all have common sense, use it.
Rich
Laurie’s a Master Model Railroader. He probably knows better than almost anyone on this forum what he’s doing!
There’s nothing wrong with the way he’s doing it, he’s putting heat shrink on each connection. Plus, it’s only a demonstration of which color wire goes where, when you actually install the decoder you’d cut the wires to length to reach the connection points, not leave a giant bundle.
–Randy