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Cordless Renovations New Battery-Powered Trailing-Car Circuit Bo

Electronics Power and Sound
#1

Hello everyone, this is our New C-10 Carrier Battery-Powered Trailing-Car Circuit Board…below is a 40ft. AMS double door box-car base with ball-bearing wheels…the trailing car circuit board package includes: 3W 8ohm speaker with plexi-glass cover, raised charging circuit board with 1.5amp wall adaptor charger, 14.4V 3800mah Nimh battery-pack, double pole - double throw switch with LED light and inline 5amp fuse, 8 stand-offs or rubber feet. To the right end is Aristocraft TE Revolution circuit board and Dallee Diesel Sound Card…not included. Let me add that this is the first of many different versions and sizes of the same style of boards, we will offer boards to handle lithium-ion batteries up to 22.2 volts, and dual battery systems to handle 24 volts.

View below: Closer view of the C-10 Carrier Board.

View below: Starting from the left: double pole-double throw switch with charging LED light, inline 5amp glass fuse, and raised single station charging circuit board with DC wall adaptor plug-in for our 1.5amp wall charger.

View below: speaker and power input (J1) there is one output for the speaker and two inputs for additional power, so you can hookup additional lights in trailing passenger cars.

View below: closer view of the charging circuit board, power adapters, switches and power connections.

View below: rear view of the 14.4V 4/3A 3800mah Nimh battery-pack, 8 & 10pin headers for your controller circuit board, placement for your sound card, (J4) power connections, (J3) 10pin mirrored adaptor plug-ins, (J2) power inputs and sound card output to the speaker.

View below: 8 & 10 pin header plug-ins, these header plug’s can be removed if your controller card does not have header pins.

View below: (J7) (J6) 8 & 10pin power headers, with two diodes.

View below: our header pins match inputs from Aristocraft, OSI, RCS, Airwire, and soon Locolinc.

View below: RCS board match.

View below: QSI board match.

View below: 10 connector output matches the 10 pin header output from the controller board, (J4) power, (H1) diode connection, (J3) 10 pin mirrored output to engine connection, (J2) speaker card output with power input. Please note: that (J2) & (J4) power / speaker connections will be reversed.

View below: reverse look at the speaker card placement.

View below: backside of the battery shows the power connection input into the circuit board, along with the circuit board charging plug-in and speaker plug-in.

The dimensions of the circuit board is 11" length by 3 1/4" width, we can also adjust the DC connection to vertical if the side box-car door does not align correctly. We will have more details along with additional photo’s and pricing on our website within the next few days. After talking with the best installers and several enthusiasts, we have decided to add an external DC plug-in along with an external Run/Off/Charge switch that you can plug-in to the board and run it to an external location on your box-car so you have easy access to the charging / operation jacks without opening or closing the doors. Thanks JJ and Robert Buck… We can also customize this board to various sizes to fit your needs. I appreciate your input and comments, Rick Isard Cordless Renovations www.cordlessrenovations.com

#2

Rick,
I’m not a Battery Mafia member… yet.
Looks like a very neat, clean and professional installation.

What about a solution for passenger consists. Would you be able to fit the baggage compartment
of a Bachmann Combine?
Ralph

#3

Rick,
How did the Airwire and Phoenix test out?
Any pics of those installations?

#4

Hello Ralph, I’m not sure of the dimensions in the Bachmann, and we are going to manufacture smaller versions of the same board for just installs like your’s.

John, I have not tested the Phoenix sound card just yet, I know it’s a little longer than the Dallee but it should fit just fine, and I haven’t had time to take photo’s of the Airwire system yet…I’m actually at a trade show in Milwaukee this weekend but and when I have time next week we will update the photo’s.

Thanks,
Rick Isard
Cordless Renovations

#5

Nice and clean…with Screw Terminals!

#6

Rick,
Does the “J” terminal provide the connections for headlight, smoke, etc control?

#7

Rick,

For those of us interested in installations in Bachmann passenger cars the dimensions of the usable areas in the baggage section of the combine and each end of the double door baggage / express are 3 5/8 wide x 7 1/4 long x 3 1/8 high. the C-10 board will fit in the baggage car if the partitions are removed.

Looking forward to the “smaller” boards.

#8

Mr. Nelson, thank you for the nice compliments…and yes screw terminals that will handle up to 16g wire.

Rick Isard
Cordless Renovations

#9

Hello John, Yes…and the (J4) terminal block provides power to the controller card if it doesn’t have an 8 or 10 header, and (J2) provides power to the sound card and a input to the speaker from the sound card. These two terminals are going to be turned around facing your controller and sound card boards.

(J3) terminal block is a mirror output of your 10 pin header. If you do not have a 10 pin header, we can remove our (J3) terminal block (the green screw terminal blocks) so you can hook directly to your controller board. But (J3) mirrors your controller board output, and on the bacside of the (J3) terminal block are numbers from 1 thru 10. These numbers will co-inside with your controllers output directions…so if (J3-1) is power from you controller card then thats what it will be coming our of our (J3-1) terminal.

I hope this answers your question…
Rick Isard
Cordless Renovations

#10

Hello Ken, we are in the process of designing a smaller board for such applications and installers. Check back in the next few weeks and I’ll have an update. We aim the please…

Rick Isard
Cordless Renovations

#11

What price range will these battery boxcars be in??? w/o any sound card or receiver in them??? Thanks Regal

#12

Re: In regards to the power available on the C-10 carrier board, the charger on this model charges up to 14.4 volts…this is a display model only and all C-10 carrier board will come with a 18V charging circuit board that will charge NiCd/Nimh battery-packs from 0-18 volts.

FYI…thanks for your input, I appreciate it,
Rick Isard
Cordless Renovations

#13

Hello Jerry, thanks for your inquiry…currently the price is $149.00 and this comes with the C-10 carrier board, 18V charging circuit board, 1.5amp DC wall transformer, an 18V 4/3A 3800mah battery-pack, 3W 8ohm speaker, (plex-glass speaker cover, optional), 8 nylon stand-offs & 8 rubber feet.

Thanks for you inquiry…
Rick Isard
Cordless Renovations

#14

Also, we will be at the 8th Annual Gateway Garden Railway Winter Meet Feb. 13th & 14th at The Mariner’s Village in Carlyle, IL. We will have the New C-10 Carrier Board on display and in full demonstration mode, along with the our new CR-2 Digital Smart Charger and the popular CR-1 Smart Charger along with a wide assortment of batteries for you to choose from. I will also be giving an Q & A clinic on what battery works best for your train and layout, so I hope to see you there.

Thanks for your comments,
Rick Isard
Cordless Renovations

#15

Rick,

Very nice. Thanks for the “plug”. Look forward to seeing you.

#16

Thanks Ric,

I will give you a call tomorrow, can’t wait for the meet!

Rick Isard
Cordless Renovations

#17

Hello Everyone,

We’ll I have taken all your ideas in consideration and decided to add these elements to the C-10 Carrier Board. I have turned the charging circuit board and shorten the width to 3 inches. Then I decided to add an external DC connection and DPDT switch with an 12 inch leads so you and commercial installers can add external hookups to your box-car, gondola, or coal hooper. With the wide assortment of battery chemistries, we will soon offer an available Lithium-charger that can be inserted inplace of our NiCd/Nimh charger. With all these additions, I have decided to add an extra inch to the board making it 12 inches long, and in most box-cars under the 40ft. case this maybe a problem, but I will always keep my options open. Adding the extra space gives train enthusiasts to add the RCS 9amp Controller along with the Phoenix Sound Card 2K2. In doing so this will raise the price an additional $20 - $30 dollars, but in return supplies you more options…

Even though I have been very busy in the last 3 months with trade shows, and I may not be able to respond as quickly as I like, I have always welcomed your opinions to make my products better.

Thank you,
Rick Isard
Cordless Renovations

#18

Rick would this trailing car be able to run a SD70? Also how would one hook up a older TE to this?

#19

Hi Geoff, Yes…but we would have to give you taller stand-offs so you could mount the TE above the C-10.

Rick Isard
Cordless Renovations

#20

Update…we are in the process of adding several of your suggestions in our redesign of the C-10 Carrier Board. ie: External DC connection, external Run/Off/Charge switch, thinner design (3") along with more room for the Phoenix Sound Cards. We have added all these features plus Stan’s idea of inter-change-able batter-packs. Instead of a direct line to the charging circuit board we have added a two pin screw hole terminal that you can either change out your battery-pack with a quick connector or unscrew each wire from the terminal, your choice. I will post new photo’s within the next week, but we will have this redesign on display later this month at the ECLSTS, in York, PA.

Thanks for your ideas and suggestions…
Rick Isard
Cordless Renovations