Berkshire Upgrades

[robertjohndavis]

Rob - what about capacitors?
Gene

I left the Bachmann board cappys in place, and the Tsunami has one built in. Voila!

Rob

[SteamGene]

Okay.  Thanks.  I may try tomorrow.
Gene

[Ozzie21]

Gene, I fitted a Tsunami medium steam to my first Kanawah to night. It took about two hours to do. I didn't the QSI ultra bass that Rob did but an ultravox 1watt oval as I have plenty of these. As it is a an inch and half oval I had to trim the small mounting posts off tender floor to get it to fit, also the fitting ring molded on the floor had to go as well as it's the wrong shape. I moved the Bachmann PC board to the top of the tender , had to lengthen the front truck wire to get it up there. I trimmed just enough of the shrink wrap off to get at the 9 pin plug of the Tsunami to repalce it with 8pin NMRA JST plug for the Bachmann board. I mounted the Tsunami up under the coal load. I had to toss the the steel weights and added a couple of ounces of lead above the trucks. Then I just tucked all the wiring back in place and hey presto one chuffing Kanawah. I'll have to fit a chuff cam later to synch the chuffs better but it'll suffice for now. I've pinched a few details off some of my scrapped P2K berks to add to this model as it is lacking in detail but that's okay for blue box model. We'll see how it's test run goes tomorrow.

Regards
Charles emerson

[r.cprmier]

Hey Gene;
Just think:  If you were in large scale (F standard gauge-WOW!)  You could probably install one of those bass woofers like the kids have in their cars...
Just think:  Gangsta-Rap on clickety clack!!

All seriousness;  as I have stated several times before, I have gone completely over to eliminating that junk that comes with the engine, and have much more room to work with; also I hard-wire the decoder.   Simple.  Less to go wrong.   Now, before you run off, I do not hard-wire between the engine and tender because you will want those plugs; but I just eliminate the blocks in the tender; therefore, the plug wiring goes directly to the decoder and not via the block; which, in my opinion, is meant to serve as a "one size fits all" proposition.  If I want that, I will listen to Frank Zappa's "Po-jama people".

Rich

[SteamGene]

Hey Rich, do you know what the Dutch word for "modern portable radio" is? 

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Ghettoblaster!

Gene