Having had help on what the gizmo was for I decided that I could use just the Massoth Chip for the beastie. So I stripped out all the LGB Power Board. Connected wires to all the lights, motor and the end connectors. These were all done to my LGB/my standards as follows:-
Motor - Green and Yellow
Track - Brown and White
Lights - Orange and Blue
End Connectors - Black and Red
Smoke Unit - left as Black and White
After wiring up as to the above standards I attached the Chip with one skrew to the Speaker Housing and connected the relevant wires to the motor and track. Here I tested the loco and all was well except that it went Backwards, easy just change the wires round on the motor. Retest and now goes Forwards on the controller when asked to do so.
Next was to fit the Massoth Sound Pot, this went in the cab with the twidly bit passing through a hole in the cab floor. It is accessible but pretty much unseen. It was screwed to the cab floor using a longer screw that holds down the Firebox Backhead, another screw into a new hole inserted to steady it. Again testing proved that it worked and that I could turn the noise to an acceptable level. Oh I had revised the CV to get it to work but more on this in a bit.
Finally the wires were connected for the lights as follows:-
Front lights, my Blue to LI-V
Rear lights, my Blue to LI-H
The Orange joined from Front and Rear to +24V on the same side of the chip as the LI-v and LI-H, I had to do some more wiring pairing as it is difficult to get more than 2 wires into each of the Terminal Blocks.
Internal Light, my Blue to LI-I
The Orange to +24V next to LI-I
I then did another test with the lights, making up a small test block to check out the end connectors. All was in order and the locomotive looked like this:-
Time to think about tidying up the wires and getting it all back together but I decided to attack the driver. He is that wooden one that has that annoying forwards lean that pops up in so many LGB locomotives. His posterior was removed with a triangular bit being cut out (ouch), straighten up some got rid of his forward lean. Then I cut off his left arm (double ouch) replacing it so that it ws touching the regulator. A bit of fill and some paint and he was not the man he started out as. He still has a bit of a forward lean and his head accentuates that but he is now a bit different so I can live with him for now.
Here is the situation with the wires tidied up ready to stuff it all back in to the boiler
Here is a picture of Heer Quick the driver and the loco as finished. Oh I had weathered it before the Chip revision and put some real coal in the coal hole just to the left side of the driver.
Finally the CV settings which were done before any of the wiring, I have a test chassis tha I use to test out chips and use that to do the updates as follows:-
CV1 = 7
CV29 = 6 (28 speed steps and digital only). This is the dreaded CV that can cause your lights to flash unexpectedly.
CV50 = 24 (reduced voltage front and rear lights)
CV53 = 24 (Internal and Auxiliary lights via connectors, reduced voltage)
CV56 = 0 (Auxiliary lights to front and rear sockets on when Light button Pressed)
CV200 = 255 (Pot enabled to adjust sound level)
Hope these notes help to remove some of the mystic about puttng a massoth Chip into your locomotive. I know that many of you out there will find this all so so, but a lot of you have helped me to get to this point so I thought it only fair to pass on your and a bit of my knowledge to the Forum for posterity.
JonD
