Been thinking about purchasing a Bachmann C-19 later this year and adding R/C, battery and sound. I was wondering if the plug-n-play feature truly works. Anybody have experience with it?
Thanks
Shouldn’t be any different then a K-27. Just plugs into the top of the circuit board.
Ken, that’s cool. Looks like the Bachmann board is factory mounted in the tender. That makes sense. I use RCS equipment so even better!
If you’re going to go with the Aristo Revolution, know that the Revolution receiver does not carry battery power to the power out pins (J1, pins 6 and 7). You’ll have to wire jumpers on the Bachmann board to do that. Fortunately they provide solder pads, so it’s pretty easy. Don’t know why Aristo doesn’t pass that power through, but they don’t. That needs to be done so that all the lights and chuff sensors work on the locomotive.
Later,
K
Joe Bussing said:
Ken, that’s cool. Looks like the Bachmann board is factory mounted in the tender. That makes sense. I use RCS equipment so even better!
I have the RailLinx installed in this one. Took out the old RCS receiver and installed that in a Rail truck.
Being DCC user, I remove the Bachmann boards and control everything directly form a decoder, however the decoder I use has many more features than what the Revo has and no need for extra boards for smoke and function outputs have a total of 2 amps for a limit.
I do set up these engines for DC and DCC operation.