Anybody know anything about this 2-engine set? Nothing comes up on the MTH website.
Is it scale or is it Railking size?
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Scale F units
Proto 1
BobbyD posted:Scale F units
BobbyD (I feel like I'm talking to myself!!!)
I saw the 20-2088-1, so they're the same engines as the MT-2088LP? Was the MT in a set?
Probably some kind of MTH numbering thing? You can pull it up on the Bay completed listings
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Many early MTH items were prefixed with "MT", as in "MTH", I suppose. Soon the size and scale indicators of "20-" and "30-" became the standard indicators of the item's size and detail level (Lionel, why didn't you....?), though the RailKing Scale (demoted Premiers) 30- items messed all that up.
I was going to get the set, good price I think of $150 but I really don't have a need and have too many to deal with now. Besides, I'm FINALLY doing some scenery and need to concentrate on that, plus I already have a couple of other projects I need to complete.
Plus...I'd end up gutting them and installing BPRC so.....
The PS/3 diesel upgrade will do DCC, so buy the diesel upgrade kit.
AmeenTrainGuy posted:What is BPRC?
Battery-Powered, Remote-Control. Just like current RC airplanes and cars.
Just do a search on the forum for BPRC and visit Freerails website:
http://www.freerails.com/view_forum.php?id=45
I've been running it for over 4 years now with zero failures of equipment. I have almost 20 engines converted to BPRC (MTH, Lionel, Atlas, Williams, Weaver, Bachmann).
It's not everybody's cup-o-tea, but I like it fine. Do the search and read.
No willpower...I contacted the seller to let him know I was still interested and to give me a price that includes shipping. They're PS1 and I plan on converting them to BPRC, I'll see if anyone needs the PS1 guts when I pull them out.
Received the engines today.
I know nothing about PS1. I don't know if this set even works, without replacing anything what's the first thing I need to do to check it out? Put it on a track and see if it starts up???
Conventional right, from what I recall? I have an old MTH Z750 that still works or should.
I took a chance and put it on a piece of test track, after opening both A units. I did not see a battery in either unit, just a large capacitor soldered to a small Dallee board sitting over the speaker in the dummy A unit. Fired it up and everything seems to work fine.
Question...would a single A unit work with only 1 motor? I want to swap out one motorized truck out of the powered unit with an unpowered truck from the dummy unit. What I want to know is, will 1 motor be enough to power 1 engine? Not even sure I can do it, the metal chassis are not identical, won’t know until I remove everything.
Bob Delbridge posted:Question...would a single A unit work with only 1 motor? I want to swap out one motorized truck out of the powered unit with an unpowered truck from the dummy unit. What I want to know is, will 1 motor be enough to power 1 engine? Not even sure I can do it, the metal chassis are not identical, won’t know until I remove everything.
Since 1 motor will pull a train....
I have "distributed" power trucks before in a powered/dummy set, though not in your battery environment. It was a drop-in swap, as the AA set I was using was just that - a set, and the truck mounting was identical between powered and un-powered trucks. A powered truck is typically a dummy truck with power and some gears.
