Tomix ND552 shunter

[Anvalo]

Recently i bought this lovely little ND522 shunter (Tomix 8612).

I am building a small Inglenook puzzle layout and this engine will do all the hard work for me.

 

After running in for a while on a small oval track it's time for some tests.

For this i used an adjustable dc power supply.

The little engine begins to move slowly on 2,3v and the lights are not on.

On 4v it runs quite fast and with the leds on.

Made a video of the slow running shunter.

In part one and two it runs on 2,3v and part three is on 4v.

An old 30 to 100hz PWM controller is used in part 4.

With this controller the engine can crawl very slowly and we get a free lightshow as a bonus😀.

The pickups on this loco are also very good, it can run slowly over de turnouts without stalling.

 

I already fitted a dcc-decoder in this tiny shunter.

For this i had to find a suitable place so i took the whole thing apart and made some pictures during this proces.

In the next post i shall show how the decoder was installed.

 

André