I currently run my TE Revolution with the track-side receiver controlling track power and it works beautifully. I am trying to convert one of my non-pnp locos to battery with a trailing car mounted receiver and battery. I bought the CRE57002 on-board receiver that comes with the adapter board with the fuses and it looked simple enough to wire up and get going. The receiver did not come with any instructions to show how to wire it up except for the labels on the board. That’s where I am baffled. The labels show TRK+ and TRK- that I figured is where the battery connects to, but for reasons that are beyond me, have the red wire on the TRK- and black on TRK+. With my years of experience wiring all sorts of electronics where red typically means positive and black means negative, I went right ahead and connected the battery red to red and black to black, not realizing the labels being reversed. I went to link up the Rx to the Tx but no blinking lights. Nothing. I reread the instructions that came with the Tx for linking and every thing checked. New link address and everything. I disconnected the battery and checked all of my connections. Thats when I really noticed the labeling differences. To further confuse the issue, I looked at how the adapter board connects to the the RX and I discovered that the TRK wiring points map back to the receiver pins that are labeled reversed, i.e., TRK+ to IN-, TRK- to IN+. What am I doing or thinking wrong here? Did the reverse polarity ruin the Rx when I plugged it in?
The Revolution has a bridge rectifier on the input side. So battery polarity should make no difference.
Ah! Thanks Tony. Good to here that. I’ll check my setup tonight and try it again. Maybe I entered the linking process incorrectly. I’ve only done it once before with the track-side receiver. Didn’t think it was all that complicated at the time. I still don’t understand the discrepancy between the main board and the adapter.
One other thing is the instructions recommend putting a 3A fuse on the positive side of the battery connection. Not sure what that would do since it seems that the fuses on the motor side would protect the unit.
Rick
You can never have too many fuses.
TonyWalsham said:Especially if Marconi comes over to run..... :)
You can never have too many fuses.
TonyWalsham said:To the fusamajigger!
You can never have too many fuses.