Hello,
I am looking at turning an MTH PS 1 SD40-2 into a dummy unit? Does anyone have any tips for making this happen? Also how much would this normally cost to be done by a tech?
thanks
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Remove the motors and pickups. Pretty straightforward. I suspect it would not cost very much to have a tech do it, but it's easy enough so I would just do it myself.
Remove the shell Take the screws on the bottom of the trucks out and remove the motors Just cut the wires When you remove the motors there are two plates that you need to take off the bottom of each motor Thhese plates are what the screws on the bottom of the motors screw into Position them over the frame and screw them in from the bottom You can strip the electronics out. Do you want lights on your dummy?
@bluelinec4 posted:Remove the shell Take the screws on the bottom of the trucks out and remove the motors Just cut the wires When you remove the motors there are two plates that you need to take off the bottom of each motor Thhese plates are what the screws on the bottom of the motors screw into Position them over the frame and screw them in from the bottom You can strip the electronics out. Do you want lights on your dummy?
I wouldn't mind knowing myself how you keep the lights active Ben.
Thanks,
John
Well, you could just remove the motors and leave the electronics to run the lights. If not, LED's are DC, track volts AC so you will need a rectifier, filter, and regulator. Regulator to maintain LED 5 volts whether you use conventional control or a form of DCC. If you use a large enough filter it will give a constant lighting effect for a conventional system.
Protosound lights aren't led. Headlights are 1.5 volt incandescent.
@John H posted:Protosound lights aren't led. Headlights are 1.5 volt incandescent.
You are correct and I should have remembered that as I had purchased a bag of those lamps from Amazon a while back.
@John H posted:Protosound lights aren't led. Headlights are 1.5 volt incandescent.
It does depend on the specific engine. The connectors on the bottom of the P/S board are 1.5V output, but some diesels also have an add-on board that switches 6V bulbs using the 1.5V board output as a trigger. Here's one I took out for an upgrade. This one was real fancy, It had a pretty decent MARS simulator output as well. The 6V constant outputs were for stuff like cab lights, number boards, and markers.
