GP38-2 no lights

[dankoesterman]

I have a new EMD GP38-2 DC, (blue box item 61712)  I removed the pcb13 board and wired in a athrean dcc ready board with a quick plug, i pluged in a decoder and the engine runs fine forward and backwards, the problem is the lights will not work in either derection, i checked the lights and they are not burnt out , they light up using another power source, they are not LED.

Thanks DAn\\an

[bapguy]

Athearn uses 1.5 Volt bulbs. If you wired in the old bulbs, they are 12  Volt and won't light. Check the voltage out put  to the lights and it will be 1.5 Volts. You need to use 1.5 Volt bulbs. Miniantronics makes them.  Joe

[dankoesterman]

Thanks joe, I will try that.

Dan

[dankoesterman]

wired in 1.5 volt lights and still no joy, very confused, a nother ? are the four wire hookup pads on the opposite side of the motor hookup for speakers?


Thanks

[bapguy]

No. The Athearn board was for adding a DCC decoder to. Do you have a part # for the Athearn board? Also is F0 on? This controlls the light function. Joe.

[dankoesterman]

Part # for the board is 90616 and yes F0 is on.

[bapguy]

Did you plug in the decoder to the 8 pin plug? If so, you need to remove the dummy plug attached to the 9 pin plug. This is the only thing I can think of other than measuring the voltage at the out puts on the board. Joe.