I have been toying with the idea of fitting some of my locomotives with electro couplers. I run conventional and even though I have 1 DCS engine I don't want to go that route.
The idea I had was based on Lionel's flying shoe electro couplers, of which I have a number of. Some engines I have do not even have a bell, so if I used the same principal as a PW Lionel horn with relay, but reversed polarity, and used the relay to activate the coil on the coupler. This would be operated with the bell button. I would need to use a small micro relay to fit into some of the tighter locomotive bodies, but I see no reason it shouldn't work. That relay doesn't know if it's a horn, bell, or coupler coil being energised, correct? Not sure yet on what voltage the relay coil should be. And I don't have a PW Lionel with a complete functional horn to see just how they wired it and test for voltage.
Is it that simple, or am I missing something?