Hold that thought group.  It seems that the Loksound project I've loaded, a Doodlebug, requires F4 to be on before any lights come on, then F0 for headlights and F6 for marker/iternal lights.

Woo hoo!

Sorry if this has already been covered on the forum (if it has, maybe someone can post a link for me?). 

I have a couple of Rail Buses on my layout that I'd like to add sound to.  I've bought 2 Loksound V5 decoders for this purpose and fitted one.  But I've found that the marker lights and internal lights don't come on.

Reading through this forum, it seems that the 8 pin plug of the standard Bachmann decoder, with the use of a couple of small resistors built into the plug, manages this requirement and turns on the marker lights and internal lights with the headlights, i.e. F0.

The suggestion has been been to swap the 8 pin plugs but that requires some very fiddly soldering (been there and not always successfully!).

Looking at the main board of the Rail Bus, there are a number of small solder pads right next to the leds.  I wonder if these can be used to connect the green or purple wires of the Loksound decoder so that AUX1 or AUX2 can be used to turn of the marker/internal lights.

Does anyone know?  Can anyone shed any light (pun intended) on this?

Cheers
David

Thanks Fred, good idea.  I don't think the main wood load will move but the double sided tape sounds a winner.   

Cheers
David

Fred and Willis, you're right, I've just seen the clips/jumpers/dummy plugs on the Spare Parts page on the Bachmann site.

But that stills begs the quesstion, how does one stop the small wood load from moving around and possibly falling off and fouling the track?

David

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Thanks for your replies guys, but the clips are not jumpers.  I can't see any way that they could be used for DC or DCC.  The clips come packaged in the sealed plastic bag with the small wood "overspill". After fitting the wood load with metal "retaining cage" and then the "retaining board" at the front of the tender, the wood "overspill" sits on the tender floor in front of the "retaining board".  But what holds the wood " overspill" from moving?

I've attached a picture.

C'mon Mr Bachmann, don't you have an answer to my question?

Hi all,

I have a number of Outside Frame 4-4-0's which come with a variety of extra pieces allowing the modeller to run the locomotive as coal burning, oil burning or wood burning.  I've changed 1 to oil burning and I'd like to change at least 1 to wood burning.  It's a simple enough process given all the extra bags of pieces.  One of those extra bags contains what could be called the "overspill" of wood from the tender.  It sits on the tender floor in front of the main tender body.  But also inside said bag are 2 small metal clips.  What are these for?

When using the coal load in the tender, the "overspill" of coal is contained in place by virtue of small lugs which slide into guides running down the front of the tender.  But no such lugs are on the wood "overspill".  I'm guessing the metal clips are used in some way to keep the wood "overspill" in place.  But how?

Thanks
David