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DaveB:
Hello. Still learning about Railpro. Was looking at the new engines Scaletrains came out with today. Impressive. DCC ready models have a 21 pin connector. How would that work with Railpro?

Thanks, Dave

nodcc4me:
They have some good-looking models. I will check them out tomorrow at the show in Springfield MA.

I am not familiar with the existence of a 9-pin to 21-pin connector. You would most likely have to hard wire the module.

Alan:
I don't think you are going to just plug in an adapter and be off to the races. The 21 pin connector, while standardized in form, is not standardized in pin out. At least not in DCC land. The connector does use electronics industry standardized pin spacing so purchasing headers and sockets is no problem. You will have to determine how the locomotive is wired pin out-wise and then solder the LM wires to the appropriate header pin. Shouldn't be too hard.

The RP for DCC 21 pin is on pg4 of this document: http://www.sbs4dcc.com/images/RP-9.1.1_200801_Recommended_Practice_RP-9.1.1_DCC_Electrical_Interface_Wire_Color_Code_for_DCC_January_2008.pdf

Although there is no guarantee Scale Trains is abiding by the RP.

KPack:
Here you go: http://tcsdcc.com/Customer_Content/Products/Harnesses/European_Harnesses/harnesses.html.  Should do the trick.

On a side note, I will be getting one of the new ET44C4's in BNSF livery.  The above should allow me to do a plug and play install, assuming there is enough room in the shell (should be, these locomotives are huge).

-Kevin

Alan:
Kevin, does that help him? Doesn't he need the male plug?

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