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I have a Lionel 6-38093 on the way with the semi-smart 8 ohm smoker and I want it to smoke at idle for two reasons. One, I like the locos smoking at idle because its more prototypical and two because I think getting the heat out of the box when idling is super important for electronics life. So the question is where can I ground the fan control board to the chuff switch, ala the older TMCC smoke unit mod where you cut the fan ground trace and run a wire from fan ground to the chuff switch? Any help or ideas would be appreciated, thanks.

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Yeah I saw that you didn't re-up your SC parts order because of the ERR announcement so I was looking for the workaround. Shouldn't be too difficult but I think going directly from the motor terminal to the chuff switch ground would hurt the motor. I also have some diodes to keep the motor voltage spikes from killing the RS board; just need to know where to tap in to give the fan motor the periodic ground in time with chuffing.

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