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AjayTele		#1 Posted : 10 October 2024 06:24:06(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 10/10/2024(UTC) Posts: 1 Location: New South Wales, Sydney		Hi everyone! I am looking at buying a used Marklin Loco that appears to have been converted from Analogue to Digital. But I would like to use it on my analogue system. What is involved in removing the digital conversion? Is that possible?
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PeFu		#2 Posted : 10 October 2024 07:32:16(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 30/08/2002(UTC) Posts: 1,288		Well, the digital converted loco could actually behave nicer on your analogue layout, than as an analogue loco! Smoother running, and even better if also the motor has been upgraded from 3 poles to 5 poles when converted. Smoother direction switch etc. However, there are a few heads-ups: (1) If you have the ”blue” or even older transformers, the power from a direction switch event could damage the decoder. (2) Analogue mode could have been disabled on the decoder. I do this myself on some locos to prevent them from running uncontrolled at short circuit events. Analogue mode can be enabled using a digital controller. So, I wouldn’t hesitate trying the digital loco on an analogue layout!
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hennabm		#3 Posted : 10 October 2024 18:51:40(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 22/09/2009(UTC) Posts: 2,073 Location: Edinburgh,		Hi I did it on an old 3322. The only real change needed was to remove the decoder and fit a standard reverser unit. I also took the opportunity to wire the lamps as directional. So I would say it depends on the loco and what has been done to modify it for digital. Mike
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BenP		#4 Posted : 11 October 2024 16:46:18(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 04/02/2021(UTC) Posts: 480 Location: USA		Originally Posted by: hennabm Hi I did it on an old 3322. The only real change needed was to remove the decoder and fit a standard reverser unit. I also took the opportunity to wire the lamps as directional. So I would say it depends on the loco and what has been done to modify it for digital. Mike Why analogize, I wondered. Then I read your signature 😄 Ben
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