I purchased an ez decoder without the plug so I could hard wire it to the circuit board of a spectrum 2-8-0 that does not have a plug. The directions are only for a circuit board with a plug. How do I wire the decoder to the older non dcc circuit board? I thought there might be a diagram showing where to solder the wires.
Anyone know how, or where there is such a diagram?
Thanks jsharger
I am wracking my brain trying to remember a Spectrum 2-8-0 with a circuit board with no socket for plugging in a decoder. Here is a photo of the circuit board in the tender of a second release Spectrum 2-8-0 and as I remember it, the first release had an almost identical looking board with the socket just about in the middle of it too.
(http://members.shaw.ca/sask.rail/dcc/2-8-0/017-board-a.jpg)
Is it possible you have a Bachmann Plus 2-8-0? Or a circuit board that someone has removed the socket from? A photo would really help.
Jim
P.S. The photo is from this article: (click on the link below)
http://members.shaw.ca/sask.rail/dcc/2-8-0/index.html (http://members.shaw.ca/sask.rail/dcc/2-8-0/index.html)
J
I am sure that the first run was plug and go. It would have a dummy plug.
Thanks for the information. I am new to dcc and did not realize there was a dummy plug with a socket underneath. I could have ordered the easy install decoder. I will use the idea from the article to use the dummy plug. I have a couple of extras as I followed the directions from a Model Railroader article on modifying the 2-8-0 for Central Vermont, and the two that I clipped and glued the reversing mechanism as instructed went out of quarter within a couple of hours of operation.