PS 2 to PS 3 upgrade on MTH Daylight - How to connect tender to engine?

If you needed a new board in the PS/2 engine, you could have just installed the PS32 board with the proper connectors for the old board.  Why did you feel the need to rip everything out?

I'd have to take my tender apart, but there should be some kind of wiring harness plugged into the drawbar socket on the tender and the drawbar connection on the locomotive. That would be where I'd start looking. As I recall, my PS2 drawbar engine had a 10-conductor setup; my PS3 engines have a six-conductor. Worst case scenario is you'd have to cut and splice.

The PS/2 with the "wireless" drawbar has a 10-pin connector, so you will just have to hand wire to make it happen, it's the same as having the 10-pin tether.

So that means we can't use the tender drawbar for the connection since the drawbar is a 10 pin connector but PS3 uses six pins?  

So  just use the drawbar as a mechanical linkage and separately wire the new tender board to the new engine harness?

@CraigP posted:

So that means we can't use the tender drawbar for the connection since the drawbar is a 10 pin connector but PS3 uses six pins?  

So  just use the drawbar as a mechanical linkage and separately wire the new tender board to the new engine harness?

You most certainly can use the old drawbar, ….do a pinout ring test, pick the ones you need, and map it out…basically, make your own harness that includes the wireless drawbar …..( I call them wire full drawbars, ain’t nothing wireless about them ) ….

Pat

Hi, I don't understand why you stripped harness out of engine as Gunrunner had said you only needed board programed and sound file installed Done!

MTH Electric Trains (mthpartsandsales.com)

here above is the parts list MTH web site why not just put the harnesses' back in engine again!

Alan

@CraigP posted:

So that means we can't use the tender drawbar for the connection since the drawbar is a 10 pin connector but PS3 uses six pins?

The PS/2 drawbar has ten pins.  The "wireless" drawbar for PS/2 was just a replacement for the tether, and it has all ten wires.  A PS/3 upgrade uses the PS32 board, and it gives you the same feature set as PS/2 and uses the standard 10-pin tether.  It's also wired up just like a PS/2, so ripping all that out and doing the upgrade kit is just doing the same thing!  If you're not past the point of no return, just restore the wiring and drop the PS32 board in.

Put it back together and just replace the bad PS-2 3V board with the new PS-32 board as stated.   G