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Proto 2000 BL2 install
nodcc4me:
They look more like capacitors. Resistors are color coded.
KPack:
I routinely remove all factory electronics and hardwire the LM. Yes it's a hassle to do sometimes, but in the end it avoids any problems with factory boards. If all else fails on this locomotive, that's what I would do.
G8B4Life:
They are actually diodes. This was a cheap way to drop the voltage to the lights from track voltage to bulb voltage and provide directional lighting on DC (each diode drops 1.5v). Don't see this method of dropping the voltage too much anymore.
The board as it is shouldn't affect the LM as the diodes would be hooked up to the white and yellow wires, not the orange and grey motor wires, unless there was a wiring error with the harness you used.
- Tim
Alan:
--- Quote from: G8B4Life on September 24, 2019, 05:46:40 PM ---They are actually diodes. This was a cheap way to drop the voltage to the lights from track voltage to bulb voltage and provide directional lighting on DC (each diode drops 1.5v). Don't see this method of dropping the voltage too much anymore.
The board as it is shouldn't affect the LM as the diodes would be hooked up to the white and yellow wires, not the orange and grey motor wires, unless there was a wiring error with the harness you used.
- Tim
--- End quote ---
Diodes for sure however each drops 0.7v, not 1.5v. You're thinking LED voltage drop.
G8B4Life:
--- Quote ---Diodes for sure however each drops 0.7v, not 1.5v. You're thinking LED voltage drop.
--- End quote ---
'Doh, I did know that. What I was actually thinking while typing though was "I'd better hurry and finish this post as I was supposed to start work a minute ago" ;)
- Tim
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