gdandridge Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Hi All,I recently purchased a nice new Dapol Pannier Tank for my N Gauge layout. I think it is a lovey model and I'm very pleased with it. However I did get caught out with the conversion to DCC.At purchase time I ordered my regular Bachmann 6 Pin DCC chip and pretty much expected to plug this into the DCC socket without problems. Once it all arrived I soon realised I had a problem. Having spent a nerve racking 20 minuets getting the cab off I discovered that the space inside was much smaller than I had thought. The chip I had purchased from Bachmann was too big. Not to worry, I thought, since I had a spare TCS 6 pin chip so I tried that. Same problem, too big. So it was off to the internet to search for a smaller chip.After a fair bit of digging about I finally came across a chip from Digitrax, a DZ125IN. This looked to be about half the length of the Bachmann and TCS chips so I ordered it.It came today and fitted a treat! See in the picture. I reffited the cab, programmed up the CV's and she works a treat. Hopefully anyone else who buys one of these for use on DCC will find this helpful.Here she is on my layout. Gavin. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Garnet Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Hi All, I recently purchased a nice new Dapol Pannier Tank for my N Gauge layout. I think it is a lovey model and I'm very pleased with it. However I did get caught out with the conversion to DCC. At purchase time I ordered my regular Bachmann 6 Pin DCC chip and pretty much expected to plug this into the DCC socket without problems. Once it all arrived I soon realised I had a problem. Having spent a nerve racking 20 minuets getting the cab off I discovered that the space inside was much smaller than I had thought. The chip I had purchased from Bachmann was too big. Not to worry, I thought, since I had a spare TCS 6 pin chip so I tried that. Same problem, too big. So it was off to the internet to search for a smaller chip. After a fair bit of digging about I finally came across a chip from Digitrax, a DZ125IN. This looked to be about half the length of the Bachmann and TCS chips so I ordered it. It came today and fitted a treat! See in the picture. IMG_20140118_164201.jpg I reffited the cab, programmed up the CV's and she works a treat. Hopefully anyone else who buys one of these for use on DCC will find this helpful. Here she is on my layout. IMG_20140111_212320.jpg Gavin. Thanks ; this loco is on my "to buy" list! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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