PS-32 Upgrade on PR FA-2

Very neat job, George.

Is that a pair of early Williams FA's George?

Certainly is a neat job!

Great Job George looks great but sounds like it was very difficult to make fit correctly. I new if anyone could get it done it would be YOU!

Great Job

Alan

George do you think that PS 32 boards would fit inside my 6-8-6 turbine 6200 steam engine?

Would like to get it done but wonder if all the boards and wires would fit in tender?

Alan

No this is an MTH with smoke.  I would think Williams is easier with no smoke, but you might have to push the speaker to the tank.  G

If this is a RK Turbine, been years since I did one, I think an upgrade kit with the 3V harness would allow the PS-32 to fit in the Tender. 

Some of these mid sized RK engines with boards in the engine are easier to convert with an upgrade kit and changing the 5V harnesses to 3V so you can put the board in the tender.

Right now, the PR Atlantic, B6, 0-4-0- and 0-6-0 type steam are the only ones I have had that can not fit a PS-32.  The board is too high or wide to fit the tender.  The only solution is a PS-2 3V or need to use spacers to raise the tender, which would not look very good in my opinion.  Also have some spare board brackets.  I already had one broken in shipping, and one shatter in my hands removing the board.  The plastic is harder.  Heard they are revising that bracket.   But don't take that to the bank.   G

George do you have the MTH  part numbers for the ps2 3 volt harness's? and are they going to be available in the future, as I do have many ps2 3volt boards since I was not to sure how the 32 boards would work out!

thanks George for any help you can supply for a MTH parts lit for the ps2 3volt conversion on my 6-8-6 steam engine and tender!

Alan

They are in the PS-32 Steam Upgrade kit.  BC-1000003 and B-1000005 respectively.  MTH seems to be out of them currently, probably cause they just made and shipped a batch of PS-32 Steam upgrade kits.  G

Hey George, are the PS 32 kits larger than the Proto-2 kits. If so what extras does the ps-32s have??   I though HO also  had PS-3 so my way of thinking these kits should be smaller?? I don't get it. 

Gregg,

I'm not an expert in matters of board size, however, since HO components handle less power, they can be smaller than those for O gauge.

Barry is correct, the power handling is a major reason that O-scale boards are much larger than HO-scale boards.  A fairly large HO steamer might weigh two-three pounds, the scale Lionel Big Boy weighs in at around twenty pounds.  It takes a lot more muscle to move the greater mass.  O-scale freight cars correctly weighted come in around a pound, HO freight cars correctly weighted come in at less than half of that.

You can read the pinned post on PS-32 upgrade kits above.  PS-3 O/G is a larger board as Barry and John have stated.

PS-3 Steam and Diesels are totally different setups.  So for the PS-32 Steam upgrade kit you have a PS-32 set up meant to replicate a PS-2 3V type upgrade kit, just no battery, and a board that is slightly larger then PS-2 3V.

HO Is a totally different board.  G