07-24-2012, 12:57 PM
torikoos Wrote:...I have an Athearn RTR SW1500,...Koos, I have a bunch of the current Athearn RTR SW1500 (not the old blue box units). They are great runners without any modifications with ZIMO (preferred) and ESU (some hum) decoders. I did never do any modifications to the PCB etc. other than cutting off the 9-pin decoder cable and plugging my decoder into the 8-pin plug.
Reinhard