| Archive for thecentralstation.myfreeforum.org Railway modelling for all Scales and Gauges |
| poliss |
Japanese N Scale Locomotives DCC Fitting Guide LinksN Scale Japanese DCC Fitting Guide LinksKato Steam C11 http://tinyurl.com/6my8xe C55 http://tinyurl.com/5mqky9 C57 http://tinyurl.com/55ewha C62 http://tinyurl.com/5qgq37 Kato Diesels DD51 http://tinyurl.com/6zqy2u http://tinyurl.com/6lcqtl DF50 http://tinyurl.com/6ztoqc (Different loco shown. Installation identical). DF200 http://tinyurl.com/6ztoqc Kato Electric E851 http://tinyurl.com/6n4l8l ED75 http://tinyurl.com/6jxtk9 ED79 http://tinyurl.com/6jxtk9 EF58 http://tinyurl.com/6zrs8s http://tinyurl.com/59o84y http://tinyurl.com/6non7w EF60 http://tinyurl.com/6ztoqc EF60-500 http://tinyurl.com/5hvysy EF64-0 http://tinyurl.com/5d85aa EF65 http://tinyurl.com/5mes59 EF200 http://tinyurl.com/6kxk32 EF64-1000 http://tinyurl.com/5z8lla EF65-1000 http://tinyurl.com/65z8we EF66 http://tinyurl.com/6gyhlm http://tinyurl.com/6lyx4j EF81 http://tinyurl.com/5j8ft7 EF65-500 http://tinyurl.com/6khjh4 EF210 http://tinyurl.com/6p9p99 EH200 http://tinyurl.com/69qmrp EH500 http://tinyurl.com/5p94og KIHA 110 http://tinyurl.com/58dy7h Shinkansen decoder installation (description only). http://tinyurl.com/5m9d2w |
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| upnick |
Re: Just a holding postShinkansen decoder installation to be investigated further.http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/showthread.php?t=63245[/quote] 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 
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| poliss |
Looks like he never did get round to doing the pics. That post was from 2005. I'm still looking for a better description. | ||
| Akihabara Station |
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. Upnick, is your 800-series Tomix or Kato? If Tomix, you'll find these threads especially useful: http://www.jnsforum.com/index.php/topic,237.0.html http://www.jnsforum.com/index.php/topic,238.0.html If it's Kato, then this one will be of interest: http://www.jnsforum.com/index.php/topic,155.0.html I've done the Tomix DE10 here: http://akihabara.artificial-scien.../tomix-de10-dcc-pt-1-disassembly/ and a primer on wiring up Kato lightboards used in end-cars on MUs (including bullet trains) here: http://akihabara.artificial-science.org/2008/02/21/dcc-and-headlights/ Kashirigi has documented a Kato EF66 install here: http://cargoplus.dynalias.net:82/content/view/29/2/ stevenh has documented a Tomix EF81 here: http://modelrail.otenko.com/node/26 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 |
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| poliss |
Some very useful links there. Welcome to the forum. 
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| Akihabara Station |
Thanks! Anything I can do to help spread interest in modeling Japanese prototypes
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| poliss |
I do take an occasional glance at the Tomix Type 923 Doctor Yellow. At under £60.00 it's quite cheap.
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| upnick |
[quote="Akihabara Station"]Hello! I'm the one with the KIHA110 DCC conversion
Upnick, If it's Kato, then this one will be of interest: http://www.jnsforum.com/index.php/topic,155.0.html 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. |
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| Akihabara Station |
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) |
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| upnick |
Hi 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 
This 'Nozomi' 500 is incredible
http://tinyurl.com/6zndtq |
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| Akihabara Station |
Isn't it? I model JR East, so the E4-series is more my bread-and-butter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BYP6YC2V90 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xJFjcRuK7w In it's 16-car configuration, it can carry up to 1600 people at speeds up to 150mph. If you want to know more about shinkansen, I can't recommend Dave Fossett's Byun Byun Shinkansen enough. But now I'm really getting off-topic! |
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