Tomix DE10 DCC Pt 2: Planning and Cutting

Read Part 1 of this article.

A preface: I’d hoped to have this wrapped up by now, but frying a headlamp and the decoder itself have proved insurmountable delays. I can at least say something about the first steps taken in this install.

Here’s where we left off: Pondering a tight fit! As it [...]

Tomix DE10 DCC Pt 1: Disassembly

It’s a shame that Kato only manufactures a DE10 in H0 scale. Although Kato now makes an N-scale DE10 that (almost) takes a drop-in decoder, and Tomix has a new tooling of this model due out in late 2010, older Tomix DE10 models are still quite common to find. The Tomix model that I [...]

Headlights and DCC (Part 2—Practice)

This is the third in a series of articles (title above notwithstanding) about getting a Kato KIHA 110 working with DCC. In this first part, I hooked a decoder up to the motor, and got basic functionality going. In the installment, I outlined how wiring headlights for DCC works in principle. In this article, [...]

DCC and Headlights (Part 1—Theory)

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Update (31 Dec 2009, 10:41AM) Corrected the schematic illustration showing how to connect a decoder to LEDs. The LEDs were connected backwards, oops!

Update (21 Feb 2008, 10:07PM) In an earlier draft, I noted that the two endcars were treated completely differently. This, as I quickly realized, is [...]

KIHA 110 and DCC (First of three articles)

I should know better than to say things on this site like ‘I’ll post tomorrow that…’ or ‘Next week I will…’. I’m a grad student, which means I don’t really have a lot of time, generally speaking. Things slip, it’s a fact of life. Modeling hasn’t slipped so much as blogging. Which means I’ve [...]