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I picked up a grab bag of TMCC and MTH parts from an auction site for $30.00. Not bad since it came with a functional MTH smoke unit, MTH constant voltage lighting board, K-Line steam boards w/ cruise and chuff micro switch/smoke unit, misc. tethers, 6 DC can motors, wiring, bulbs, and what I thought was a Lionel mother board but it turned out to be a TAS board. Does anyone know what board this is? FD50686B-ABD1-4DB5-9D8B-878E16CEBCD2
Also, it didn’t come with a tach board but I have one on another project that I used it to test the board. The PIC chip is bad so I swapped it from another board and everything works great. I’ll just pick up another PIC. I can use the help identifying it and locating a schematic for it. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

GRJ,

Have you attempted to or revisited the idea of altering your Super Chuff yet to use as a substitute for the TAS tach reader board? I recall from a previous thread you stated you might give it a shot? I’m still interested in purchasing a few if you give it a go.

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I think some clearer pictures of the board without the three Lionel boards attached would help us.  Also, any nomenclature on the board with be helpful as well.

If this is a TAS board, it might be one that was made for a specific model, they had some special for stuff like Atlas switchers, etc.  From all the connectors on the projection at the end, that appears likely that's what you have.

GRJ,

I found this pic from another post on the forum. It was advertised as a TAS board without any additional info. This is the same board except the voltage rectifier is tethered on mine.

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There aren’t any screen printed part numbers anywhere on the board. The sockets are labeled which is helpful but not totally conclusive. I’m guessing they used it in diesel and steam applications. I used a steam RS board and set programming accordingly. It chuffs without an external cherry/micro switch and all of the functions work as designed. There’s a “chuff in” socket adjacent to the antenna plug. I’m not quite sure how this socket is used. Also, I still need to find a tach reader board to use this set up on an upcoming conversion.

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An early SAW board, Sunset, Atlas, Weaver.  SAW Gen 2 boards were marked. All the small white plugs, left end of the board, would indicate a fair amount of ginger bread lighting functions, and electro-couplers, another reason it could have been A SAW board.  Problem was the board was designed a bit light. Later EOB board beefed-up the basic circuits.   IMO  Mike CT  Usually the (3) component  boards would work on other modular mother boards,  There were exceptions, R2LC pre-08  

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Here is the wiring diagram for the board shown above, along with a few pictures of the board and respective connections:

TAS Board Wiring Diagram

Board Top:

Board Top

Board Bottom:

Board Bottom

Top Connection Detail:

Top Connection Detail

Top row: EOB sensor (3 pin)

Second Row L-R: Smoke Input (2 pin), Rear Coupler (2 pin), Front Coupler (2 pin), Program/Run switch (2 pin; closer to capacitor), Antenna (2 pin; directly below run/program switch)

Third row: Cruise on/off (2 pin), Chuff switch (2 pin; steam engines only)

Bottom Row: Rear headlight (2 pin), Front Headlight (2 pin)

Bottom Connections:

Bottom Connection Detail

Top Row: Battery (2 pin), Speaker (2 pin), Volume potentiometer (3 pin)

Bottom Row: Railsounds on/off (2 pin), Board AC Input(?) (2 pin), Motor (2 pin)

Hope this helps!

-John

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