recommended decoders for roundhouse engines

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Can anyone recommend decoders for the following three HO roundhouse engine kits: Climax 3 truck shay Kit 370 2-6-0 OT kit 63" Drives (00492) I am using an MRC Command 2000 system.

-- Kent Carpenter (kcarpent@odu.edu), February 07, 2003

Answers

Kent,

Try a Digitrax DN 121 decoder. It should fit inside the Climax, and is able to withstand 1 amp current draw. Lenz also makes a decoder that will fit, but I can't recite the number off the top of my head. I have fit the DN 121 into old Roundhouse locomotives, older Bowser locomotives, and numerous brass locomotives with open frame motors, so I know they work.

Cheers, Kert Peterson Fircrest, WA kertp@attbi.com

-- Kert Peterson (kertp@attbi.com), March 05, 2003.


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