Prepping for a Diesel PS/3 Upgrade

Amusing yes....educational as well....so here's my question Professor- why so many extra wires in a PS3 kit? Aren't most diesels pretty much the same?

And I thought heart surgery was complicated .

WOW! Wouldn't have guessed there was that much "extra" wiring in the upgrade. Great idea to save the extra wired connections for repairs too!

@RSJB18 posted:

Amusing yes....educational as well....so here's my question Professor- why so many extra wires in a PS3 kit? Aren't most diesels pretty much the same?

No, not really.

The ones I'm doing are pretty plain.  However, the kit provides for ditch lights, markers, number boards, MARS light, beacon, etc.  I don't install the DCC/DCS switch as this layout will never consider DCC.  For this upgrade, the Weaver engines I'm upgrading had no smoke unit, so those wires are also gone.  You always end up with a pile of wires, sometimes more, sometimes less.

That is such a good idea, I wonder who thought of that  It actually was worse with the early kits that had the real thin wire/insulation.  I told Jason that when it was being Beta'd for used.  They did move to a thicker insultation wiring and it is more manageable.  You can also support rear ditch lights if the sound file for the model has that feature.  Just add the 2 wires and patch into the common return.  G

Thanks John.

@GGG posted:

That is such a good idea, I wonder who thought of that

Some guy, I forget his name.   It was a good idea, my first couple diesel upgrades looked like a bird's nest perched on the board with the bundle of wire that you ended up with!

@GGG posted:

It actually was worse with the early kits that had the real thin wire/insulation.

Well, the insulation on the wire is still pretty skinny, 0.6 mm including the insulation.  I don't mind thin insulation, but they carried it too far.