Excellent Poliss just what i need lets hope he posts pics of the install as my 800 series has been sat at the supplier a while waiting for the bloke to come in and do it, if i know how precisley how to do it i've been told its not a hard job _________________
Looks like he never did get round to doing the pics. That post was from 2005. I'm still looking for a better description. _________________ Get off the line Bobby!
http://s160.photobucket.com/albums/t184/Poliss_album/
Hello! I'm the one with the KIHA110 DCC conversion, and I've got a ton more useful DCC links for you.
The most promising place to start is the JNSForum DCC Forum:
http://www.jnsforum.com/index.php/board,33.0.html
(full disclosure: I'm an administrator there) There are lots of DCC installs illustrated or posted to that board.
If you don't mind using Google's translation service, or the like, this is a really great site (Japanese language):
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/okiraku_dcc
Hi Akihabara station,
Many thanks for the links i'm not 100% sure if my Kato Shinkansen is one of the current ones or the more snub nosed type shown here
http://tinyurl.com/5qm5z7
The guy who has it for me awaiting its decoders fitting said it didnt take the Kato board decoders and needed three one for the power car and one each for the lighting ....... the set is a 6 car one either way i will ring him and ask for the Kato # and type. _________________
Hi Akihabara station,
Many thanks for the links i'm not 100% sure if my Kato Shinkansen is one of the current ones or the more snub nosed type shown here
http://tinyurl.com/5qm5z7
The guy who has it for me awaiting its decoders fitting said it didnt take the Kato board decoders and needed three one for the power car and one each for the lighting ....... the set is a 6 car one either way i will ring him and ask for the Kato # and type.
Hello! As your contact says, Kato shinkansen do require three decoders: A motor decoder in the motorized coach, and then two function-only decoders, one in each end car to control the headlights. While wiring the motorized coach should be straightforward, the end cars may not be. Kato offers tips (in Japanese; use your favorite translator) on wiring several of its most widely used end-car lightboards here (board no. 3706 shows up in a lot of shinkansen models):
http://www.katomodels.com/hobby/dcc/dcc_tips/light_kato.shtml
The diagrams indicate pretty clearly which traces and leads to cut, which LEDs need to be removed and reversed, and where to solder the wires from your decoder (The colored dots correspond to the colored wires in a decoder using Digitrax's color scheme, which if it differs from the decoders you are using, is outlined on p. 14 of this document: http://www.digitrax.com/ftp/decodermanual.pdf)
I hope this is helpful! (for the future, anyway, since you've got someone else doing it for you) _________________ A miniature slice of geekdom
Akihabara Station
Rang my supplier first thing and the shinkasen has gone away to be fitted with the decoders ordered another two Kato light units for the cars as i have a six set here already for DCC ....cant wait to run it illuminated
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