LokSound and LL Erie-Built

[RBrodzinsky]

A Daisy Chain is a garland of daisies, with their stems woven together.  First appears in language in 1841 (according to OED)

[keeper]

For English (or at least American English) wiring,
"in a row" is called "in series", "in parallel" is called "in parallel"

So I wasn't far off then....

[peteski]

A Daisy Chain is a garland of daisies, with their stems woven together.  First appears in language in 1841 (according to OED)

TRW is such a useful resource.  I learned about "passel", and now about daisies. 
Of course it would have been easy to just Duck-Duck-Go search for "origins of daisy chain", but it is more fun to ask here. 

[nickelplate759]

TRW is such a useful resource.  I learned about "passel", and now about daisies. 
Of course it would have been easy to just Duck-Duck-Go search for "origins of daisy chain", but it is more fun to ask here. 

I take it you never tried to make a real Daisy  Chain.  Doing it with roses would be painful and difficult, because rose stems are both thorny and much woodier than daisy stems.

You can make a chain of dandelions quiet easily if you have no daisies handy, but your fingers will get sticky from the sap.

[peteski]

I take it you never tried to make a real Daisy  Chain.  Doing it with roses would be painful and difficult, because rose stems are both thorny and much woodier than daisy stems.

You can make a chain of dandelions quiet easily if you have no daisies handy, but your fingers will get sticky from the sap.

No, I have not. I've been always too manly for that!   

[keeper]

Sooooo...
I ordered a LokSound 5 micro with the afore mentioned sound file and an additional speaker for the E6, which is now a dummy.

@RBrodzinsky which way did you go with the wires from the B unit to the dummy?
Through the windows in the doors?

Thomas

[RBrodzinsky]

@RBrodzinsky which way did you go with the wires from the B unit to the dummy?
Through the windows in the doors?

Thomas

Precisely.  I made the wires extra long, and they can be pushed into the window on the other unit to take up the slack.

[Cajonpassfan]

Well, yes, Rick provided two long wires coming out of the B unit back door window. But the wires enter the trailing A dummy through two notches in the dummy unit flour,  between the floor and the shell. This way, I can remove the dummy shell without interfering with the wires. It also accommodates a two pin connector in the dummy (which is too big to fit through the little window).
Otto K.

[keeper]

Ah, I see. I'm thinking of going with the wires on both units through the floor because I have four wires. Two for the speaker and two for the light.
Four wires are too thick for the window opening.

Thomas

[Cajonpassfan]

Right. Let us know how it goes/went.
Good luck,
Otto

[keeper]

The LL E 6 now has a speaker and an old Kato board - a part of it - for the light.
The speaker is a Zimo 13 x 18 mm sugar cube.



I added the second light to the Erie Built shell.



Am I right in thinking that the lower light is the 'normal' light and the upper one the Mars Light?
Next step will be milling the frame.

Thomas 

[RBrodzinsky]

Yes, lower is headlight, upper is Mars

[keeper]

The frame after the milling.





Thomas

[keeper]

Are these metal thingies really needed?
Right now she runs just fine without these. They are quite flimsy and I doubt that they work like eg. the Kato ones...



Thomas

[peteski]

Nice clean and neat install - I like it!

Those thingies are to keep the worm aligned properly in the chassis. They are supposed to put constant pressure on the worm's bearing blocks.  It is a good design. I suppose you can run without them, but then the worms will be able to shift left and right in the chassis.  I highly recommend keeping them.  I actually bend the little finger that contact the bearing blocks slightly out to put more pressure on those blocks.