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Post by trainman9 on Mar 10, 2024 16:21:51 GMT
Were there any tinplate engines produced with TMCC.
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Post by rtraincollector on Mar 10, 2024 16:25:48 GMT
I don't believe so. There were proto-sound or conventional are the only two I have seen. It wouldn't be hard to install though, plenty of room to do so.
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gftiv
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Post by gftiv on Mar 11, 2024 14:12:09 GMT
The hard part of TMCC install on tinplate engine is isolating the antenna. the conductive body of the engine blocks the TMCC signal to an internal antenna.
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Post by trainman9 on Mar 11, 2024 14:32:36 GMT
The hard part of TMCC install on tinplate engine is isolating the antenna. the conductive body of the engine blocks the TMCC signal to an internal antenna. I suppose you could use the body as the antenna if you isolated it. How did MTH do PS2/3 in these engines. Maybe they don’t need an antenna for their system.
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Post by rtraincollector on Mar 11, 2024 15:24:13 GMT
Tinplate use the body as the ground to for the lights to my knowledge. I don't have O but do have Standard Gauge though have never tried it but did know I had plenty of room, the antenna would be a challenge. It just being a coated wire, as long as the end being sealed you should be okay I would think. But next question would be, would all the tin interfere with the signal?
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Post by rtraincollector on Mar 11, 2024 15:25:30 GMT
You could use a TPC 300/400 or a power master.
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Post by curtis on Mar 11, 2024 19:23:38 GMT
YES MTH. MTH used PS3 which is transmitted via the rails both ways!
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Post by trainman9 on Mar 12, 2024 15:37:34 GMT
You could use a TPC 300/400 or a power master. I have a ZW-L and it has four built in PowerMasters. I can run anything conventional I was just looking for speed control.
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Post by rtraincollector on Mar 12, 2024 16:28:56 GMT
You could use a TPC 300/400 or a power master. I have a ZW-L and it has four built in PowerMasters. I can run anything conventional I was just looking for speed control. I might be misunderstanding what all a ZW-L can do, but I thought using the powermaster part you had speed control using your cab 2 or legacy-L controller.
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Post by trainman9 on Mar 12, 2024 18:02:53 GMT
I guess by speed control I mean constant speed regardless of voltage. In other words a type of cruise control.
As for not knowing about the features I can understand that since not that many people know how the transformer was designed. It has four built in PowerMasters that can be addressed by either a CAB1-L or CAB2 system. The ZW-L gets programmed in Command Mode and then you can address the ZW-L.
There is a YouTube video done by Lionel which goes through all the features of the ZW-L.
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Post by rtraincollector on Mar 12, 2024 20:34:16 GMT
Well that would possibly knock out ERR as if memory serves me right, they didn't have cruise control for A/C motor just DC motors.
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