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Lm3s wiring a steam engine ho.

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carpediem4570:
Happy new year everyone:

Here we are just past the first week of January and my H.O. Mehano, IHC MIKADO steam locomotive is still on the bench.

I put a new five pole motor in as the original motor had the brushes melted to the plastic.  Of course the new motor was slightly larger so filing of the motor mount was in order.  The good news is it is fitted and runs great.

Now for the railpro.  I will be mounting the LM2S in the tender along with the speaker and converting the rear light to led.

Of course, I have to mount a six pin plug to run wires from the tender to the engine.  This will require some detailed cutting and filing work on the tender next to the coupler.  AND of course, I have no tools to do the work.  So, ordered new jewellers files from Ali express.  Now the wait game.  In the mean time, I soldered the resistors onto the led three mm bulbs I’m using and soldered the wires from the nine pin plug onto a six pin plug. 

This is my first real attempt at soldering.  I damn near went blind trying to solder the wires onto the pins of the plug.  It’s ugly but hopefully it will work and won’t short.  Tried using Chinese shrink tube on the wires.  Too bulky and it doesn’t shrink.  Need to find some clear shrink tube for 32 AWG.

Will post picks as soon as I figure out how.

Kind regards,

Max

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