Hi Marco

It seems your motor is running fine but the electronic part is damaged and need replacing.
Your option are:
- to keep the engine and find an AC decoder (I am not too familiar with what is available). The result will be at best as before.
- to replace the motor and decoder using a 60750 (probably the cheapest with decent results
Cheers

Jean

Chances are the decoder is toast...that's my hunch based on the "smell" ..
Why it burned: probably a defective rotor in the motor either from short s on the commutator or a burned coil or two...
Problem is: those Delta decoders are not available anymore.

You have a couple of alternatives:

1) you can use this **excellent** aftermarket replacement http://luessi.ch/shop/ca...nfo.php?products_id=2302 , but you'have to convert the motor to a permanent magnet version (using a 60941 kit) and add a nice decoder (like an ESU Lokpilot. Nice and easy way to upgrade but you'll probably need to budget about €100 for the whole bit . That's my standard procedure to repair/upgrade these oldies.
Luessi Hobbyartikel ihas a good service, dependable, and usually delivers within 2 weeks of your order.

2) I probably have a (pre-owned) spare 34341 Delta printed circuit board left somewhere from my days as a Märklin Service station.
Will have to test it though.
And I do have the replacment rotor too if you need it.
Please PM me if you're interested.

Hope this help

Cheers

Jacques

The Luessi PCB would be needed to allow the Swiss light changeover to work when you change the decoder.

Any decoder would work as long as you get the one with the right connector for the Luessi board you have, 21 pin, 8 pin, etc...

Marklin decoders are not all that much more expensive than equivalent decoders of other makes. The Marklin mfx decoders are comparable in price to the ESU ones.

51962 is the correct magnet for a DCM motor

Leave the 3 pole armature. If you change to a 5 pole motor then you will need a different magnet as well. for this you would need the Marklin 60941 motor kit.

Edited by user 19 June 2018 12:37:54(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Oops, just corrected a typo in my last post. It should be 60941 not 60940!

Sorry about that!

Yes it is.
Did it a couple of times .
Luessi's stuff is just smart and well thought of by someone who is involved in the hobby.

From my experience, I think Lûessi is a one-man operation.
But if response time is not the quickest, his products (so far for me...) have been 100% reliable and operated as advertised and the order and payment process is painless.
Good luck with the conversion, tell us how you fared!
Cheers
Jacques

I would suggest you go with an ESU. I would class Gaugemaster decoders on a similar planet to Hornby ones. Very long barge pole need between me and them, and it still wouldn't touch them.

if the worst comes to the worst I could still order a 60760 kit which gives me permanent magnet and 5 pole rotor + decoder 'crappy'

All I'll have to do is wire the Motorola decoder to fit the DCC male plug

Prices are equivalent to that of a single ESU LokPilot 4

SOLVED !!!!

I made a mistake in soldering one of the light's
cables and this fixed it partially.

Then using the EcoS control panel I had to configure how I wanted the lights to work with
the LokPilot 4 and everything fell into place
:-)

Engine runs smoothly, lights work properly

Off to Lisbon for a meeting now.
Have a nice rest of week
Marco