Seuthe Smoke unit and PS3 upgrade.

I doubt it would damage the electronics, and the smoke is PWM to around a 6V RMS value, so I suspect it would smoke.  I don't know how the Seuthe unit would deal with the smoke volume settings. 

Obviously, chuffing won't work.

PWM?

mike

Pulse Width Modulation.

Thought that might be the case. Better safe to ask.

Mike

The Seuthe units used in early scale locomotives (RoW, Williams, MTH) were 5Vdc units.  GRJ sez that the PS3 out is 6V.  These are fussy units and absolutely per GRJ, it will not chuff.  I tried to make the RoW units chuff many years ago and was never able to make it happen.

Buy a fan driven unit and a GRJ super chuffer.

Lou N

I have a fan smoke unit. I was curious about the seuthe units and the ps3 upgrade kits.

Mike

gunrunnerjohn posted:

I doubt it would damage the electronics, and the smoke is PWM to around a 6V RMS value, so I suspect it would smoke.  I don't know how the Seuthe unit would deal with the smoke volume settings. 

Obviously, chuffing won't work.

Hi John, I don't think the Suethe unit will respond much at all to the smoke units fan drive signal. The change in voltage state that drives the fan will probably have no effect on the Suethe unit because it would never drop in temperature fast enough and climb back up to generate a puffing effect.

If I was going to go through all the trouble of an up grade adding an MTH unit would not be that much more of an expense. Of course real estate for the larger unit my be a problem. That said a DCS engine with out synchronized smoke is a bit of a visual let down.   

We're not talking about the fan drive, we're talking about the heater voltage.  I'm assuming he has the 6V Seuthe unit that's found in Williams, Weaver, and 3rd Rail stuff.  I have a bunch of them in my parts box from upgrades.

I would, of course, second Lou's suggestion to do this with a real fan driven smoke unit, that's why I have so many Seuthe smoke units.