06-07-2014, 03:43 PM
I'm learning a little bit at a time -- and as far as I know, there's no good central place to learn this stuff. Extension classes in hard knocks, I guess.
Lesson for today: Athearn RTR has all the bulbs wired together, so that Mars and headlight aren't separately controllable. There are posts on various forums about how to customize this, but that's not something I want to spend a lot of time on. So what you see here on an RTR SD45T-2 is what you get:
I assume this applies to D&RGW SD40T-2s and SD50s as well. This is acceptable, because both SP and D&RGW sometimes ran with Mars lights lit but stationary.
Genesis locos, on the other hand, do have separately controllable lights, although since there's no standard on this stuff, F1 controls the Mars light on an Athearn Genesis loco, F2 on a Walthers.
I suppose this is something I could remap.
Lesson for today: Athearn RTR has all the bulbs wired together, so that Mars and headlight aren't separately controllable. There are posts on various forums about how to customize this, but that's not something I want to spend a lot of time on. So what you see here on an RTR SD45T-2 is what you get:
I assume this applies to D&RGW SD40T-2s and SD50s as well. This is acceptable, because both SP and D&RGW sometimes ran with Mars lights lit but stationary.
Genesis locos, on the other hand, do have separately controllable lights, although since there's no standard on this stuff, F1 controls the Mars light on an Athearn Genesis loco, F2 on a Walthers.
I suppose this is something I could remap.