Hi slipgear,  your comment about the resistor in the feed to the lamp is timely as I've been looking at a circuit board in a Spectrum tender.  The lamp feed has no less than 5 resistors - 2 x 220K  2 x 470 ohm in parallel and 1 x 1.5K.  There are also two diodes and a capacitor.  What on earth for?  Perhaps to handle the voltage variations when used on a DC layout instead of DCC?

Quote from: James in FL on June 19, 2012, 10:51:14 PM
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Thank you for the info James.  Just been there and bought one.

Thank you Ron.

Thank you James In FL - I shall go ahead and buy the loco (when I can find where I put the plastic!!).

jdha

I'm retired and have taken up N gauge for something worthwhile to help pass the time!  I am very interested in the Spectrum #81662 4-8-2 - NC&StL - that is advertised as "DCC Ready".  Does this mean there is a circuit board in the tender, as I've seen photos of in some of the discussion topics.  Also, I was wondering whether all eight tender wheels have pickups?  I do hope someone out there can help.