poliss
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What are these?Flatish coil type things under the capacitor. Something to do with lighting I think. But will they interfere with DCC? The directional lighting is controlled by two flat selenium plates seen on the lighting bus on either end.
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Teleman
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The trouble will be with the directional won't work as it is on DCC . You will need to use the light output from the decoder to get them to work .
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poliss
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I can bypass the selenium plateseasily enough, but the coil thingies are harder. (For novices in electronics, 'thingy' is an extremely technical term).
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Teleman
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It looks like you can lift the bus bars at the end of the coils so taking the lights out of the motor circuit . Thats what i would do and leave the coils in place
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poliss
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What are the coils for though? They resemble the inside of an old scalextric hand controller.
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Teleman
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Tech head on ?
Coils stop high frequency and so there are no nasty spikes getting to the bulbs which might make them blow
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poliss
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Probably for the Piko AC 16v hf coach lighting unit then. Now, as I remember, the power from the tracks goes through the bulbs, then through the coils and finally to the motor. If these coils stop high frequency, then would that include dcc?
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Teleman
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Could be they would it depends on there value
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poliss
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I'll try a dcc decoder with them in plce first. When I get round to it. Could be months. 
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