My bachmann On30 engines with DCC and sound are leaving my O scale engines kind of flat now...thanks bachmann{hahaha}, so this other guy and I, on another board, are chatting back and forth about higher amp DCC boards and what to control them with...I have my dynamis and he has his NCE{I think}. I'm wondering if I got the dynamis booster{5amp?} if this would run an O scale engine, on 3 rail, with a 5 or so amp DCC board with sounds, well enough.
For you who have a hard time thinking about "3 rail" as workable, remember, the 2 outside rails are common...think "1", with the center rail as the "other feed"...sort of the same thing as 2 rail, but with 3 rails.

Anyone ever try they're large scale...O/G...on a dynamis with the given engine running DCC?

Can it be done...has it been done...should it be done - yes..I think, so long as it won't burn out my dynamis{power output wise}.

Thru a search tonight under "O scale DCC" I spy that Weaver is supposed to be getting into O scale DCC...I can't see why O scale can't have DCC...even saw a place called procraft that has 3.5 amp Tsunami boards...same thing as HO boards but higher amp capability for the engine.

Bachman...anyone...?

Got alittle more work done on her-

I'll snap a pic of her this afternoon, but I'm pretty sire they're resistors and not caps.

Quote from: Desertdweller on February 06, 2013, 06:46:47 PM
I had an unfortunate experience gluing sheets of styrene together with the thin liquid solvent.  For some reason, the solvent wouldn't dry when in between the sheets, and left a depressed pattern on the outside of the sheets mirroring the pattern of the applied solvent.  Maybe it would have helped if I had let the solvent mostly dry before putting the pieces together.

Les

Les, when gluing small pieces I found that the liquid, brush on, type is fine...but for large sheets, like doing a cab roof laminate, I grab the tube type and dot it all around, then compress and let dry. That liquid stuff works well but can only wick in just so far.....
I like weldon or tenax.

UP844, got your email, let me find a box...for the box and I'll be able to tell you what it'll be for the postage. Once I rebuild the body in On30 it'll never fit back in there, so there's no problem with you having it.

Agreed...and a 3 truck Climax too!..then they can do a 4 truck shay!{oh yeah....!}

Yup that's the one I have.

I like that decoder Rich...that a sound one?
Oh, Rich, do/did your lights ever go directional or are they both always on?...before the new board.
Only drawback to this chasis is the missing truck side...guess I'll have to try bachmann for that "if" they still have them.

I was thinking today how one truck might work for a lil mack 15 tonner...need to do some research...

Simple question...what do you need a box for.....didn't it come with one?{just asking}

...simple answer if yours didn't...you can have mine....flip me your snailmail addy and postage and it's yours.

That was on DC....there's no dcc board on that one...yet. The board in question is nothing more than for the lights...I see diodes but I don't see them working.

LOL...well, the boy and I were listening to the sound samples over at soundtrax and he liked that one for the engine.....I'll get to choose for the next one{SD40-2}...then to figure out what to use for the On30 davenport and rail bus.

My GP40 came with dcc on board...no sound. I have the TSU-AT1000 Tsunami dcc/sound board to go in but I see the two resistors down by the motor and have to wonder if those stay or get removed...those were there with the bachman dcc...when this one is done I have an SD40-2 with dcc/ob that needs sound too...both engines are On30 chassis projects.

Some of you may question the EMD 567 choice, but it was my 7yr old son who picked it out because he liked the sound....what am I gonna do...say no?

Found an ebay auction for one of the really old bachmann 44 ton switchers with the dual slot car type motors - not a central can motor. Though it hums rather loudly on the EZ command control{in channel 10 of course} It does actually run fairly nice. My thoughts were for it to become an On30 engine or to split the two trucks and make two rail cars...now for my question...is this type of power train worth it...with the separate truck motors...to add DCC or DCC/sound?
Also, though there's two diodes on the light board, the body lights don't reverse with direction...common for back then, or possible diode issues?
The more I look at this chassis, the more I can see a lil mack railbus with one of these power trucks as the power source for that...the reason why I bought it.
Thanks in advance for any input....
...back to my other On30 project-
http://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/board/index.php/topic,22312.0.html

Anyone know if the loksound DCC boards play into "F" resets?

Sorry, I've really neglected this thread- but not the build!
Main body was started-

Got the doors and latches done on the RH side-

Cab is started as well as the LH side doors and latches-

...she's gettin there...

That is a nice bash Jim, but why not try your hand at a new slope back body for the tender...you'd probably have to remount the board.