Can you swap a ps2 board in a loco with ps3?
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No. You would have to have all new harness and lighting. The PS3 is all LED lighting. Where the PS2 is not.
Right.. but are the plugs the same.. the 40 pin the same.. aside from the lights ofcourse. Would it drive the motor and sounds?
If I remember right, the plugs are not the same and the tach reader is different. That would have to be changed too. I hear they make ps3 boards for ps2 models with the specific plug design. They did the same for PS2. From 5v too 3v style board. It was a special ps2 board you could order from MTH.
You have to order the PS 3 Conversion kit. It is specifically for converting PS2 to PS3
Woa, not what is being asked. NO to PS-2 in place of PS-3. You need all new harness, tach reader and bulbs versus LEDs or you need to add resistors.
PS-2 uses 12, 8, 7, 5, 4 pin connector. PS-3 Diesel uses a 40 pin and 8 pin and they are different. G
suncoasttrains posted:Can you swap a ps2 board in a loco with ps3?
Why would you want to?
I just completed mth technical school. They use the test platforms to test loco boards. They sell them but in the meantime I need a way to test boards. So I suggested and they agreed if I have an old PS2 or 3 steam engine I could utilize it to test sound and boiler boards. Ofcourse it's impossible to learn everything in 4 or 5 days so I'm feeling my way around all this. Soooo I figured ps2 and 3 were not interchangeable and we discussed it a lot but we covered stuff and moved on.soo I'm going to ask a lot of dumb questions on here. We can't be to careful working on customers stuff. Any ideas would be appreciated!
If you want to test PS/2 or PS/3 boards, the test set is the right way to do this. They're not cheap, especially the PS/3 one, but it makes the job tons easier than trying to cobble one together or testing them in a locomotive.
Right..I think I asked about it but .. I'll ask jason.
