MADE SWINGING BELL FOR VL HUDSON

I missed your point about pulling the TMCC board and replacing it with an RCDR. The RCDR is just a receiver. 

If you wanted a board to drive everything you would need a RCMC. At this point you are halfway to a small legacy engine not to mention the time to make all of the wire harnesses. Look at Alex's video above and see if you really want to duplicate this setup.

Pete

Norton posted:

I missed your point about pulling the TMCC board and replacing it with an RCDR. The RCDR is just a receiver. 

If you wanted a board to drive everything you would need a RCMC. At this point you are halfway to a small legacy engine not to mention the time to make all of the wire harnesses. Look at Alex's video above and see if you really want to duplicate this setup.

Pete

Ah alright. I think I'll stick without it. I don't mind doing the work just the semi-confusing nature of adding a legacy feature to a TMCC engine and the parts needed. 

Actually, it's possible you could use a Legacy R4LC, that would be cheaper than the RCMC.  If it was receiving in parallel with the existing TMCC R2LC, it could just supply the serial code for the bell.  There are also even smaller and cheaper Legacy RCDR boards that output serial data that could supply the serial feed for the bell board.

gunrunnerjohn posted:

Actually, it's possible you could use a Legacy R4LC, that would be cheaper than the RCMC.  If it was receiving in parallel with the existing TMCC R2LC, it could just supply the serial code for the bell.  There are also even smaller and cheaper Legacy RCDR boards that output serial data that could supply the serial feed for the bell board.

Cool. Can you send me the parts I would need to do this in my email? prr2100@gmail.com

Norton posted:

I missed your point about pulling the TMCC board and replacing it with an RCDR. The RCDR is just a receiver.

Since you can't really use the TMCC sound boards with the RCMC, you will NOT be pulling the TMCC receiver.  You are simply adding a separate Legacy compatible receiver and bell control board to control the bell, the basic TMCC control path has to remain.  Since receiving TMCC signals, they'll still send out the 9-bit serial data that the bell controller expects, that's the low-cost way to do the job.

Thats what I said in a previous post. You need to add a Legacy Receiver to a TMCC engine to provide serial data to the Bell board.

Pete

Pete, I obviously don't disagree with that point, I was just presenting low cost and smaller footprint solutions to accomplish the goal.  Do you have some disagreement with using a Legacy receiver that's 1/3 the cost of the RCMC, and much smaller as well?  What are we arguing about?

John, I suggested using  RCDR earlier in this thread. Best if you read the whole thread rather than reacting to the last post. The point I missed was Matt said he had an engine with NO electronics rather than a complete TMCC engine. An RCDR would do good in this case.

Pete

You need full legacy electronics for this to work, including the RSL.  Hacking into a TMCC loco won't work. 

SantaFeFan posted:

You need full legacy electronics for this to work, including the RSL.  Hacking into a TMCC loco won't work. 

Darn. 

SantaFeFan posted:

You need full legacy electronics for this to work, including the RSL.  Hacking into a TMCC loco won't work. 

Jon, are you saying if I simply connected the Legacy RCDR serial line to the bell control board (obviously adding the required power, etc., that it wouldn't work?