DCS Remote Commander Set and PS1

The DCS Remote Commander is for operating one PS2/PS3 equipped engine. It will not operate a PS1 engine.

 

You can get one of the JAK roller assemblies and put your engine on it and connect it to a transformer and it will run in place.

 

MTH also offered a remote a couple of years ago with their starter sets that was different from the current remote.

 

You might do a search of the MTH product locator to see if they are still available.

 

Maybe someone else with more knowledge can chime in on this.

Hi

Thank you for your helpful answer! So the DCS remote is not working!

I am already considering the JAK tool, but I'd like to see some functions work on the T1, but I don't know which transformator is the right one to choose.

Regards, Stefan

PS1 is not a command control system. It's simply a sound system piggybacked atop a slightly advanced reverse unit.

 

The remote being described by Trainman9 is an infrared controller that operates a voltage-control box hooked between a transformer and the track. I don't know if it was ever offered for seperate sale--only in starter sets for a relatively short period of MTH's history.

 

If you're only going to run that one locomotive on a display stand, a MTH Z-1000 transformer should do just fine. It's a power brick with a seperate controller that contains a throttle knob and buttons for horn/whistle, bell and direction.

 

---PCJ

Hi,

would a Z-500 set also be sufficient? (I could buy a Z-500 with a step down converter 220/110 Volt) here in Switzerland)

If you want to actually have the locomotive running on roller blocks and the smoke running, 50 watts may be pushing it, though it'll probably run it.  I'd want at least a 75 watt transformer.

 

Hi

thank you all for your answers. Now I know what to buy..

Cool thank you very much for your research work!

Be aware that the IR lockon for conventional doesn't do well with some PS/1 locomotives.  I had two different ones that I tried with it, neither of them worked properly with this product.  They both worked fine with an old PW transformer.

 

Stefan:

 

I have one if you want to buy it.  I realize not the buy/sell forum here, but this is specific to your query and you seem like you are looking for one.  Let me clarify, I have the remote and the lockon, so I have one set.

 

As GunrunnerJohn points out, having at least 75 watts is probably better.  But you will need a power source and I suggest an MTH transformer because you plug it directly into the back of the gray lockon.  The transformer has a power brick and from it is a cord that normally plugs into the controller.  With the set up you want, the cord plugs into the gray lock-on via what is called a barrel plug (it is a round female plug) that inserts into the back edge of a recepticle on the lockon.  There is a  metal tip in the center of the recepticle and that fits perfectly into the barrel plug that comes with power source brick.  So thus the reason I suggest you also buy an MTH transformer.

 

You can reach me off-line if you want the remote set.  My e-mail is in my profile.  And I know it works because I used it within the last year.  And all I have are PS-1s.

 

You're quite welcome, and I'm happy to share the info I found when looking into these!

I'll have to defer to John and others regarding compatibility of this setup with PS1 engines as I don't have any, but works great on my Williams and the one Loco-Sound engine I own.  Good luck!

THe T1 rolling on rollers with smoke would be about 1.5 amps at 18V so 50W is fine for what you are doing.  You are better off with a Pure sign wave transformer though.  Post war Lionel, or any style you can get.  14-18VAC, then get a bell/whistle button to integrate into your display.  G