Hello all,
I have just recently brought a hornby ddc controller R8213 and two
chips R8249 and was hoping to but them into my old hornby trains. To
be honest I thought this would be quite simple to as I was previous
using a zero 1 controller which needed the trains chipped with the
zero 1 chip which I could do no problems.
However now I see that the new chip is somewhat different to the old
chip and I have tried to figure out the wiring but obviously not right
as it does not work. What I have done is to put the left and right
motor leads on each side of the motet and the wheel leads on each side
of the wheels trying to keep left and right the same. But I=92m not sure
about the common lead as to where this should go?? Instead all it does
is sit on the track and produce a high pitch whine for a minute or so
then causes the display on the controller to flash and then disappear
if that makes any sense!!!
So the question is has anybody done this before and does anybody know
how to manually wire one of these chips into an old train. Maybe there
is a wiring diagram out there? Probably talking 1970,80 trains here.
Or have I made a mistake thinking this could be done and it can=92t so
now need to by proper DCC trains?
Thanks in advance
- posted 13 years ago