Aristo Revolution TE 2009 P5


Here is the main board of the Pacific with the dummy plug installed. The loco comes with a male and female connector for connecting to the tender. I cut the traces between pins 2, 3, 4 and 9, 10, 11. Pins 4 and 9 are to headlight power so I jumpered them to pins 1/2 and pins 12/11, which are track power. The headlight will stay on full time. As I understand it, this was common on steam of that era.		I connected the male connector wires to pins 1/2 and 12/11 which are track power. This feeds track power to the tender. I then connected the female connector wires to pins 3 and 10 which are inputs to the motors. The receiver motor outputs will feed the female connector.

Here is the receiver in the tender. I again used the short adapter board. I soldered new wires onto the board for track power and motor outputs so I would not have to splice them. I un soldered the headlight wires since I would not be using them.		Here is the 2K2 sound board surrounded by various other boards and switches. I mounted small perf boards onto the post near the speaker to use as track power junction boards.

Here is an overview of the installation. The electronics board in the upper center is the G Scale Graphics SST module. It is connected between the 2K2 board and reed switches for horn and bell. It shuffles what sound is played when the reed switches are tripped by track magnets.		Here are the connectors between the loco and tender. The top loco female to tender male is the motor power connector. The bottom loco male to tender female is the track power connector.