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I'm the process of planning an upgrade on a steamer utilizing an EOB motherboard that was originally in a diesel. I'm guessing it's a regulator of some kind. I can see how the wiring harness arrangement works for the diesel as it's still hooked up.

I'm guessing I'll need to install a chuff switch for a steamer ( reed switch or maybe GRJ's new setup). Can this board run off on track power? I was hoping to install this board in the boiler. Can it operate off of track power?

I believe I have J5 (top left) and J3 (middle top) figured out. Does someone know the pin out of J2 at the bottom of the photo on this board and would it be different for a steamer ?

 

Thanks

Milwrd

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Actually I was in error in my request. It's the J3 pinout I need to know. I have a couple of these units and the way the regulator is wired up seems to differ. If I'm reading the manual correctly the orientation on the mother board from left to right is: gnd, smoke, chuff, fan. Where does the chuff wire hook up to?  

I have these, but I never saw them wired, so if you find out anything, I'd like to know.   I'd also like to see how they're wired in the diesel configuration.  I have the matching smoke units, they have three terminals that are presumably for power and control inputs, they came out of diesel locomotives.  They don't exactly match the Turbo-Smoke documentation, I'm guessing these were OEM models that didn't have the steam/diesel jumper described in the Turbo-Smoke document.  Did you look at the Turbo-Smoke Documentation?  Is this the smoke unit you have?

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Here is the smoke units I have in question. They are TAS units although not turbo-smokes. I guessing if I use these in a steamer I just splice the purple and gray wires in the harness to route back the the tender. As GRJ points out the chuff is generated by the EOB board and all that is needed is the gnd and smoke connections from the four pin socket on the mother board. The second to last pic I believe is a turbo unit although this doesn't look like the same unit in the TAS instructions. In the Last pic, that smoke unit (which looks similar GRJ) is in an EOB equipped Atlas Erie Built.

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