Why would a tender need a rectifier? The whistle solenoid is activated by DC pulse and AC takes over for the whistle motor. Do you have a DC can whistle motor? I’ve used horn relay for Lionel tender whistle, they appear to be the same. Previous video you showed had a battery. What was it for? My only experience with a battery was for horn. They never worked well sounding more like a door entry buzzer. Eleven or twelve volts for dual AC motors sound reasonable. Winter theme looks nice, very festive.
Because the "can" motors in the locomotive are DC motors. The "Card" in those modern locomotive tenders have the rectifier, e unit, whistle , bell , sounds etc. even blue tooth or other connections to the modern control systems. SO that locomotive ( as I mentioned ) had the boards fail and ripped out of the tender. So now there is no power to the locomotive as the "rectified" DC came from the pig tail from tender to locomotive. AND the AC was sourced back thru the same pig tail. For the smoke unit, the AC source was tapped , run thru a switch and directly to the fan driven smoke unit so it didn't need the DC, just the motors on mine needed DC>
Oh, I didn’t realize the “controls” for the engine are put in tender. So I’m assuming the engine won’t run without the tender because it don’t have the control boards for DC can motors. That explains the wire between engine and tender. Will a big diode work changing AC to DC for the can motor? I found online changing rectifier to diode in both ZW and KW transformers. I did both and work great. Can your tender do the same with a diode?
Good video as always. Thanks for sharing.
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Why would a tender need a rectifier? The whistle solenoid is activated by DC pulse and AC takes over for the whistle motor. Do you have a DC can whistle motor? I’ve used horn relay for Lionel tender whistle, they appear to be the same. Previous video you showed had a battery. What was it for? My only experience with a battery was for horn. They never worked well sounding more like a door entry buzzer. Eleven or twelve volts for dual AC motors sound reasonable. Winter theme looks nice, very festive.
Because the "can" motors in the locomotive are DC motors. The "Card" in those modern locomotive tenders have the rectifier, e unit, whistle , bell , sounds etc. even blue tooth or other connections to the modern control systems. SO that locomotive ( as I mentioned ) had the boards fail and ripped out of the tender. So now there is no power to the locomotive as the "rectified" DC came from the pig tail from tender to locomotive. AND the AC was sourced back thru the same pig tail. For the smoke unit, the AC source was tapped , run thru a switch and directly to the fan driven smoke unit so it didn't need the DC, just the motors on mine needed DC>
Oh, I didn’t realize the “controls” for the engine are put in tender. So I’m assuming the engine won’t run without the tender because it don’t have the control boards for DC can motors. That explains the wire between engine and tender. Will a big diode work changing AC to DC for the can motor? I found online changing rectifier to diode in both ZW and KW transformers. I did both and work great. Can your tender do the same with a diode?
@@genemanno1533 That's kind of what I did....rectifier & capacitor