billyboy Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Hi lads, well I've started the DC to DCC conversion of my trains. The BR Class 37 was plug and play so no problem there, the fun started with my Athearn bluebox SD- 40-2 . I looked up youtube and found a great step by step guide. It took about 3 hours to do but by god it was fun. The light I had to take out as I want to fit LEDs front and back to I've to order them and a few 2k resistors. The train itself I bought in Canada back in September 2001 and its running well and its one of my all time fave units. I've a few F7 A's and a SD70M to convert from my North American\Canadian rolling stock. More to follow. Bill SD-40 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishthump Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Nice neat conversion job, Billyboy. What decoder did you use in the loco? Did you also connect the lights? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burnthebox Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Damm fine piece of work there Billyboy, now let's see the video, good work, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billyboy Posted December 3, 2014 Author Share Posted December 3, 2014 @ Irishthump I haven't hooked up the lights yet, I'm waiting on a batch of LEDs and resistors to fit to it. @burnthebox I used Digitrak DH126D for the Class 37 as its plug & play, the DH126PS I fitted to the SD40-2. The only major problem I had was soldering the wires to the trucks for the pickups even with the unit striped down . I'm pretty sure there's an easier way to do that part. Besides setting the new IDs I haven't tweaked the chips yet. Thats for a quiet weekend. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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