Need Electronic E-Unit recommendations

Dallee electronics #400. Very easy to install and durable.

Thanks Charles.

I ended up going with the 6 amp unit and relocating the bridge rectifier and it’s a lot more compact now.

Thanks again

And here it is… my test-bed Lionel OO 002 Hudson with the Dallee electronic e-unit installed. Resoldered wiring with more flexible wire, threaded through the folded over bridge rectifier. Works and fits perfectly.

For can motors, look at Lionchief boards. The first 2 generations do not require much to retrofit into a conventional loco.

I'm doing a Weaver RS3 now.

Not much more than a Dallee board and LC remote control as a plus.

Bob

The OO uses an open frame motor, but of course I can wire using a bridge for polarity controlled direction under DC - they work great that way.

Rather than lionchief, the next experiment for this testbed is actually an old mini commander 2. The OO Hudson motor has a stall current of 1.1A or so, well within the mini’s limits.

I’m 90% sure I can make this fit, just need to cut down the weight or relocate an electrolytic…

@christie How about an update on this project, or a video of it running!  Thanks for sharing.

Well, I fried two MiniCommander 2s - a very costly mistake as they are rare as hen’s teeth and Lionel went out of stock on their cousins, the RCM2 boards so no forward progress on anything more advanced than a dallee electronic e-unit, which works great.

practically any dcc encoder fits and I’ve been thinking about stashing a flyerchief board in the tender and running a tether.