LGB power block

[Dave Hub]

Hello all,

This is not one of my strong points so I come to seek assistance from the masses.

I am making a start on my LGB LCE train conversion. I have removed the power block from my old LCE with the intentoin of adding it as more power to my new 5 car LCE.

Firstly is there a way of adding directional lighting coming from the power block? I noticed a few pins with some letters on any ideas what they are? could I plug lighting in to any of these?

Photo included.

Also If running a train with two motors do I need to connect these with wire to ensure they run at the same speed and share the same power supply?

 

[Rhinochugger]

I'm no LGB officianado, but with a bit of schoolboy german I can guess at the wiring colours

Reading from left to right

gn - grun - green
bn - brun - brown (that was difficult wasn't it )
ws - weiss - white
ge - gelb - yellow

Reading Mike's previous posts about LGB wiring, I'm pretty sure there's a standard colour notation.

Well, that's a start then

 

[muns]

The pins are:

gn (green) - MOTOR -
bn (brown) - TRACK -
ws (white) - TRACK +
ge (yellow) - MOTOR +

Note: gn & bn should be connected together, likewise ws & ge together.

There is no need to connect the motor blocks together, but you can and if you do it will aid in power pick up, it may also cause problems in other ways, i.e. the whole train must reside in an isolating section etc.

In order to fit directional lighting, feeds from (gn+bn) and (ws+ge) would be taken through suitable diodes to lamps or LEDs (with a suitable resistor).

 

[Zman]

<p>Standard colour coding for LGB is;</p><p>Yellow = Motor +</p><p>Green = Motor -</p><p>White = Track +</p><p>Brown = Track -</p><p> </p>

 

[Dave Hub]

Many thanks for quick replys, guess I'll give the directional lighting a shot then. :thinking: