echoing G8B4Life

In a steam locomotive, the power comes in through the tender and the drivers (sometimes) Some makers grab power from one side of the tender and one or more wheels on the locomotive opposite side. (sometimes)  Ideally; you want to pickup power across all of the wheels which help in power continuity. I may be wrong but it seems to me you are concerned about powering the rear light in the tender??? Please advise. Again, without seeing the original wiring, it will be hard to give specific guidance.

If my hunch is correct about the rear light, it will be fed power through the blue and yellow wires. Good luck!

Greetings one and all:

I am installing an lm2S in my Mehano Ho steam locomotive.  This is being wired from scratch.

Originally the tender had power to the pickups.  On the instruction sheet, the locomotive wheel pickups are fed by the red and the black wires.  Can I splice into those red and black wires and run the spliced wires to the tender wheel pickups to give power to the tender.?

Or is there any point to getting power to the tender wheels, since now, the rear light no longer draws power from the tender.

Thank you in advance for…enlightening…me. lol

Kind regards,

Max

I've had only one minor issue with the HC-3. It sometimes didn't remember the direction of the follower in a consist. Tim Ring already knew about it and fixed it in update 1.06.

I never saw that come up during my testing.  Interesting.  I still have my HC-2's, but I find myself picking up the HC-3 almost exclusively to run trains.  It's so much more comfortable.

I need to update my HC-3.  Haven't had time yet with the layout building taking my time.  But so far I have had zero issues with the HC-3.

Latest update....
The battery in the HC-3 finally gave out this afternoon. I was able to charge it back up to 100%, and was able to run a train.
I will still contact Ring to see if there has been a history of this happening or if this is a one off. Hopefully it was just a one time glitch....

Bill