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I have an old Railking Hiawatha with the QSI electronics.  I was having sporadic problems with getting the engine to run and it was suggested on the OGR board(quite some time ago) that it might be a tether problem.  I finally got fed up and put an Williams e-unit in the engine and stopped connecting the tether.  I was fiddling with it this weekend and wondered if I could salvage anything.  I see four wires coming from the tether - red, yellow, black and white.  Would it be possible to bypass the reverse board in the tender and still get sounds?  Is there a method I could use to troubleshoot the boards without hooking the tender up to the engine? Should I not waste my time and just gut the tender and go with some other sound system?  Thanks in advance.

 

KC

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GGG,

 

Thanks for the info on the wiring.  I cut the tether and hooked up the black and red to my transformer and the sounds and reverse seem to work OK.  Question - do the wires going back to the engine do anything else except run the motor?  The reason I ask - I hate to tear out the Williams unit, so I was thinking that I would add a truck pickup to the tender to get the sounds and eliminate the tether completely.  Thanks again.

 

KC

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