N Scale Caboose Lights and Keep Alive® (Part 1) | Installation Companion

Join TCS Engineer Dan as he shows you step-by-step how to install a TCS FL4 decoder into an N Scale Atlas Caboose, wire up some LEDs and add Keep Alive® for steady lighting. Part 1 covers disassembly of the caboose shell, axle replacement, axle wiper installation, axle-to-cab wiring, wiring resistors, and installation of 3 SMLEDs. Part 2 covers decoder wiring, Keep Alive® wiring, soldering and heat shrinking wires, and final product.
View Part 2 here: • N Scale Caboose Lights...
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Why not dress up your rolling stock and add life to a crucial part of many layouts? Pick up some FL-series decoders from TCS and give it a go! For frustration-free railroading, add in TCS' new miniaturized KA1 and KA2 devices - the perfect fit for many N scale installations.
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Learn More about Keep Alive® Devices: tcsdcc.com/keep...
Purchase TCS Keep Alive® Devices here: tcsdcc.com/acce...
Soldering Tips and Tricks: tcsdcc.com/wire...
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Shown in this video:
TCS FL4 Decoder: tcsdcc.com/1004
TCS KA2 Keep Alive® Device: tcsdcc.com/1456
Replacement Wheelsets: Fox Valley Models www.foxvalleymo...
Wheel and Axle Wipers: Streamlined Backshop store.sbs4dcc....
Resistors: tcsdcc.com/tool...
Surface Mount LEDs with Magnet Wire: tcsdcc.com/tool...
Heat-Shrink Tubing: tcsdcc.com/tool...
Kapton Tape: tcsdcc.com/node...
Kester "44" rosin core, SN63PB37, .015" diameter, part number 24-6337-0007.
This can be ordered from Techni-Tool under Techni-Tool part number 488SO157 www.techni-tool...
Recorded and edited by Stephen Koffel for TCS. tcsdcc.com/vid...

[@marksawyer5299]

Another great install video Dan. These last few RUclips videos take me back to the time when your website we my "go to" for installation ideas and basic electrical theory. Keep prodding the engineers at TCS to give us some sound equipped N scale sound. Great job!
Mark.

[@TCSDCC]

Thank you, Mark! Our goal is to make DCC easy and accessible for everyone and anyone regardless of their technical or mechanical aptitude. N scale is becoming more and more accessible and feasible by the day, and that's the way we like it!