I recently bought one of these water tenders and plan to connect it to a 20-3365-1 PS-2 J locomotive and tender. I can't find any instructions. Does anyone have a digital copy they can post? Thanks in advance.
Sorry for the twisted shot- I needed another cup of coffee?
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Guess what I finally found? Posted for future reference even though very sketchy. When I get into it, I will post additional details as they unfold. If anyone has additional details, please post.
My advice- know the rules. By rules, I mean know that taking an older PS1 tender, means it has PS1 1.5V incandescent backup light and a PS1 electrocoupler.
PS2 and PS3 use a different coupler compatible with the voltage of PS2 and 3 and is completely incompatible with PS1 couplers. Good way to fry the coupler MOSFET or worse.
Further, PS2 uses 6V incandescent bulbs and PS3 is LED. Either way, highly likely that original 1.5V grain of wheat backup light- that gets blown.
And that's assuming the 4 pin connector arrangement pinout even lines up.
There is real risk of damage to a PS2 or PS3 tender electronics (nothing like a $200 mistake) when connecting one of these PS1 aux tenders.
Thanks Vernon for verifying that suspicion. I was hoping to find the product page on the MTH web site and did not have much luck with several searches. Looks like this will be eye candy and I will probably add my own LED lighting to it as a stand alone unit with no tender connection.
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