Hopefully your weather in Germany is better than ours here? We are getting lots of rain lately with flooding and landslides. Makes me stay inside and do workbench projects.
@@gardenrailroading Our weather is also very rainy and in some places there is also flooding. Today was a sunny day and it was 17 degrees Celsius plus. But from tomorrow it should be very cloudy again, but the temperatures will remain above 10 degrees plus. And that in February. Wish you all the best. Greetings
I used the Piko 35040 on about 10 locos now (no sound yet) with great success. I use 9.6 volt NiMH 2000 mah batteries. Some are wired with 2 batteries in a series which should give me 18v. The 35040 has a switch which can give you the option of track power also if you wire it to the track pick ups. Great video, first time I am hearing about the 35042 version which is much larger than the 35040. Thanks for your insight.
Good video. I converted my railbus a few years back. I run Railboss/My Loco Sound with a 14.8v battery in the freight compartment. Just converted to LED lights recently.
Mark, if I remember right, the Sierra board defaults to a firebox flicker for the lights. That is why the light was flashing instead of staying on. There is a way to change it, but I don't remember how anymore. On the Piko board I thought the LF terminal was for the front headlight. Hopefully the manual will say for sure. Sorry, my German isn't that good anymore either.
Hi Mark. I found out, but at first I was confused by the fusion of the german Piko and the english Peco model train manifactures… 🚂🙃 But good instructions. But I do prefer systems that run the trains at bit more smoothly. 🚂🤔
I much prefer the German Pico, it is a little too quick for my liking but it was an inexpensive build for those wanting to start in our hobby with little investment. Love you latest videos too!
Instead of a separate six volt battery, could you use a voltage regulator connected to the main battery, or track power? I'm pretty new to G scale, and I love unusual power units, like railbuses. Great work on yours, and well explained.
Hi Mike, Yes! I actually was talking with a friend this morning and I remembered that I have some small voltage regulators that will work just fine. Also another friend reminded me that the flickering light is what the Sierra sound boards revert to when unused for a while.
Fantastic idea and great work. Looks good and great sound. Thank you for showing me. Greetings from Germany.
Hopefully your weather in Germany is better than ours here? We are getting lots of rain lately with flooding and landslides. Makes me stay inside and do workbench projects.
@@gardenrailroading Our weather is also very rainy and in some places there is also flooding. Today was a sunny day and it was 17 degrees Celsius plus. But from tomorrow it should be very cloudy again, but the temperatures will remain above 10 degrees plus. And that in February. Wish you all the best. Greetings
Fascinating video with an easy explanation on what you are doing.
I try to explain things so other railroaders can do this.
I used the Piko 35040 on about 10 locos now (no sound yet) with great success. I use 9.6 volt NiMH 2000 mah batteries. Some are wired with 2 batteries in a series which should give me 18v. The 35040 has a switch which can give you the option of track power also if you wire it to the track pick ups. Great video, first time I am hearing about the 35042 version which is much larger than the 35040. Thanks for your insight.
Very cool Mike, I was wondering about the 35040.
Good video. I converted my railbus a few years back. I run Railboss/My Loco Sound with a 14.8v battery in the freight compartment. Just converted to LED lights recently.
Thank you, very cool!
Everything turned out right. Cool work.
Thank you
Mark, if I remember right, the Sierra board defaults to a firebox flicker for the lights. That is why the light was flashing instead of staying on. There is a way to change it, but I don't remember how anymore. On the Piko board I thought the LF terminal was for the front headlight. Hopefully the manual will say for sure. Sorry, my German isn't that good anymore either.
It has been so long since I had to program a Sierra board that it seems like ancient tech! LOL
Ha ha😂, I was thinking about you , great work my friend 😂
Thanks, I cannot wait for the train show in Monroe in two weeks to show off some of our trains.
Hi Mark.
I found out, but at first I was confused by the fusion of the german Piko and the english Peco model train manifactures… 🚂🙃
But good instructions. But I do prefer systems that run the trains at bit more smoothly. 🚂🤔
I much prefer the German Pico, it is a little too quick for my liking but it was an inexpensive build for those wanting to start in our hobby with little investment. Love you latest videos too!
Instead of a separate six volt battery, could you use a voltage regulator connected to the main battery, or track power?
I'm pretty new to G scale, and I love unusual power units, like railbuses. Great work on yours, and well explained.
Hi Mike, Yes! I actually was talking with a friend this morning and I remembered that I have some small voltage regulators that will work just fine. Also another friend reminded me that the flickering light is what the Sierra sound boards revert to when unused for a while.