You have to pay for this at least 150,00 euro.Think about it.

Hi Cem,

The cost need not be more than about 30 euros for a conversion to digital: a lokpilot and a slider. The work depends on the available room for the slider. I converted a Proto 2000 SD7 loco with some difficulty because of the very limited space under the trucks, but Pierre had more luck with a tender to mount the slider under and a non-traction truck of a Budd railcar. Then Nev is in the process of converting a 2-rail loco with a special thin slider made by Bart (Vardex). You should be able to find more detailed information by searching for the things I mentioned here.

If you do not want a full-fledged digital one I believe you can also use a simple decoder that just functions as a reverser switch, but I am not sure about that. Could be a good investigation to do on such a cheap loco.

Jeroen

well,

i might have changed my mind but the loco is a V190 so there's no space in it for digi conversion.

this one has to go so it seems :(

cem.

Of course, Widi !

Cem, can you please post pictures of your loco (especially underside) and tell us which brand and model it is ?

Pierre.

The pickup shoe is replaced by another type of pickup, which takes current from both front and rear wheels (non-geared side).
You can remove this pickup and put a normal 7185 shoe. You'll miss the ground pickup from non-geared wheels and face some problems if you have tracks with one isolated rail. It all depends on your ability to keep the wheel contacts when you install the normal pickup shoe. Not an easy task, but it can be done.
Your Lok already has a Hamo magnet, so you can install a Lokpilot and it will work pretty well. Remove the diodes currently feeding the light bulbs.
Have fun !!!

Keeping ground connection from non-geared wheels is not mandatory but recommended when possible.
A Lokpilot is an ESU decoder for DC motors. You can select either a Motorola/DCC/Selectrix Lokpilot or an mfx one.
When you have your Lok open, you will see a couple diodes instead of the normal reverse switch. If they are not present, don´t mind.
You need to have the white wire from decoder directly connected to the front light bulb and the yellow wire to the rear one.
Gray and orange wires go to the motor, black to chassis and red to pickup shoe. Isolate blue, green and violet wires.
Follow the instructions supplied with the decoder to have it programmed according to your needs.
Test your decoder before running it, insert a 47 Ohm resistor in series with the red track wire and see if the lights are working.
Also, you'd hear some noise when you increase the speed but probably the Lok won't move.
Any direct connection from a decoder's wire to ground will damage the decoder.
Have fun!!!

The 60922 mfx decoder should fit this loco, if it has a DC motor. Otherwise it's one of the conversion kits with a new motor as well. Price range from 80-100€ for this solution.

The 60933 mfx sound decoder gives you a nice diesel sound as well, but the cost will be a bit higher, 150€ (for decoder and speaker, no DC motor).

The same decoders are also available from ESU with mfx, but can be harder to find from retailers.