Can any one give me any relevant info on fitting a decoder to a Consolidation?
Is it easy or difficult?
I am referring to the latest model
Thanks
A friend and I will be doing one soon. I did my annie with a NCE decoder a while back, more effort to open it up. I did disconnect all wires from the boards, rather than try to figure out if there were any sneak paths.
What decoder are you going to use?
Regards, Greg
Hi Greg
probably use a Massoth e Motion, or may use an ESU LOKSOUND XL
My supplier over here in the UK www.dragon-gscale.co.uk checked out a connie for me today and he reckons its not a difficult job to do , rather like the Shay screw connectors on a PCB within the boiler,
I am not sure about this but I ave heard that there are 2 distinct versions of the connie still sitting on retailers shelves: the original version difficult to fit decoder and the revised version easy to do, have you any info on this?
regards Steve
No, I do know the later ones have the screw terminals that make it a lot easier, and are advertised as "DCC ready" or something similar.
Have you bought the loco yet?
Regards, Greg
Not bought it yet still considering it, depends what sort of a deal I get offered ;)
I had one years ago when they first came out, nice loco sold it off when I went through a SWISS G scale phase!
If I do go ahead it will be hot on the heels of a Shay Heisler & K27.
Not had much success posting pics on here, but some of them appear on www.gscalemad.co.uk forum
Regards
Steve
I would go ahead without fear. Get one that has the DCC ready on the box, and the instruction book shows the wiring layout and how to fit a Digitrax decoder.
With the screw terminals and the Bachmann-supplied wiring diagram it should be a snap.
Regards, Greg
Yes just had a rather good price offered for a brand new latest series Connie from my usual supplier, Dragon G Scale here in the UK so I will go ahead and place the order.
He will ship it to me Wednesday so i should n get it Thursday morning
I'll let you know how the decoder fitting goes
Steve