dumb question #1 It seems to have a drop in board. is the plan for someone to produce a decoder for it later? nice install BTW.
It looks like Mike kept the original light board. He wired the decoder to the light board . Red and black wiring also wired to original light board as well as orange and black. Stay cool and run steam....
I believe Digitrax is coming out with one. If you want to have a DCC ready one now, this looks like a plan. Good work. Frank
Bob it is a Lenz Silver Mini. The light board wiring only allows for forward lighting the whay it is laid out for DC. The rear LED was flipped over so both lights are on in forward mode. It is hard enough to get current production decoders from Digitrax let alone wait for them to engineer one. Are you listening NCE? Thanks , Mike
Wouldn't it be nice if Kato had given Digitrax plans of the NW2 in advance so they could have had a decoder ready, the lead time for designing and producing a new locomotive like this must be many months, surely plenty of time to do this even for Digitrax. What am I thinking, I'll go and bang my head against the wall a few times to knock me back to my senses.
What am I thinking? Westfalen, it's not so much what you're thinking it's 'how you are thinking', take all the logic out of your thinking and you'll understand. Like when your customers are screaming for steam locos, so you make stack cars...see, simple!. It's the 'Dilbert' method of business, most model railroad manufacturers seem to follow it. 2slim
The prototype uses the 'Dilbert' method too, the railway I work for just bought some trains that don't fit through our tunnels. A lot of businesses these days seem to use 'Dilbert' as their model. I've got some Lenz silver mini decoders but this hobby teaches you patience so I'll wait a while and see what comes out before I take to my NW2s with a soldering iron. NCE, TCS etc. here's a chance to get the drop on Digitrax. We have an old saying here, "There's the right way, the wrong way and the rail way".
