Great tutorial, I followed easily and it works, thank you 👍

Thank you for the video. I manged to follow your instructions and it all worked perfectly first time. Very pleased as most of my 'projects' take a few versions before they work or I give up. I used a DC Concepts function decoder and an old Uhlenbrock decoder I had in my spare parts dept.

@railandmodel

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Alan, sorry for late reply. Pleased the video has been of help & has work perfectly first time :-) Great to hear all has gone well, top stuff. Cheers Iain

Very good "how to" video, well worth watching...Simon

@railandmodel

8 жыл бұрын

Many thanks Simon. We've tried to keep it as simple & easy to follow, as best as we can. Kind regards.

@SimonLivertonCentral

8 жыл бұрын

It was well paced and informative. The only different way I would have done it would be to have added an 8PIN socket, and not hardwired, so the chip could easily be replaced. Nevertheless you put together an excellent "how to".

@railandmodel

8 жыл бұрын

Was going to go for a 8 pin socket. But as the Gaugemaster decoder i've used on this can be un-plugged off it's harness, it's another sort work around on the socket so to speak. Many many thanks on the feed back, very much appreciated :-)

Hi, thanks for the video. Did you ever make the video for converting the Bachmann class 158? I'm sure that would be much appreciated.

@railandmodel

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Micheal, for the class 158 it's the same procedure as this one bar the top head light. Just converted a class 158 to DCC but do have another awaiting conversion. Will have a look at doing a video on that once i've got a couple of decoders for it.

@michaeltanguy7055

6 жыл бұрын

ay76 Hi, many thanks for your reply. Looking forward to seeing the video.

@railandmodel

6 жыл бұрын

Be a while yet but if you follow this video you should be fine.

Thank you so much for sharing this video of how to do it! Is the reason for the second decoder just for the lights in the dummy car? Reckon I may be as excited as your daughter. :-) Thanks Paul

@railandmodel

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome. The second car the dummy car needs a decoder for lights in that car, so hence fitting the decoder to it.

How would you do this for a 3 car version ? Cheers Matt

@railandmodel

3 жыл бұрын

For the motorised center car, the red and black wires from the decoder go to the power pick up wires. The orange and grey wires on the decoder go to the motor. For the non motorised driving trailers, they are wired up the same as the one shown in this video. Many thanks.

is it the same process for the bachmann class 158 ?

@railandmodel

7 жыл бұрын

Far as i know it's the same process for the Baccy' 158. I've got a couple 158's a waiting hard wiring to DCC. I'll do a video of that in due course. Kind regards.

@anthony566

7 жыл бұрын

ay76 Ok thanks for the reply, i have 4 i want to convert and i was thinking i would do them all at the same time.

@railandmodel

7 жыл бұрын

That sounds like a good plan that :-) I may look at uprating the lighting whilst i'm at it, with one of the DCC lighting kits by Express Models.

I have 3 class 170 3-coach units, so I'm guessing that I'll need 3 decoders for each unit, 1 for the lights on either end and one for the motor which sits in the middle coach, then my 4 class 158's would be like your video - man the expense of it all never mind the time for someone like me who is not the most nimble with little wires and soldering irons, 17 decoders 😩

@railandmodel

7 жыл бұрын

You could through wire it with mini plug/sockets between the coaches, that way only one decoder would be need. Various retailers do discounted multi decoder packs which will save you some money. The way to do it is bit by bit over time to help spread the cost.