Hornby Adams 415

The latest arrival on Pix Valley a Hornby Adams 415 a smooth runner tested on DC on my rolling road. it seems that the bogie pickups have inadvertently been wired to the lighting output pins on the decoder socket a check with the multi-meter and resoldered the offending chips to the correct pins.  Reprogrammed the chip in my ESU 53900 popped in the loco socket test run on main track and tweaked CV’s. Body won’t fit now chip to big! Also these two bits were loose in the packaging when I first opened it got to find where they go. There is no space for a chip other than in the bunker.

There is not a lot of useful information on chipping the loco. After surveying the loco I removed the coal load and proceeded to trim away the bunker floor to gain space for the chip to fit, as it turned out it was more the a trim in any case removing all that plastic gave me the space I needed and allowing air to circulate around the chip. A final tweak was to trim the coal load flush. When it was reassembled I was pleased to say it looks just as it was out of the box!  Shame I had to hack so much away from a brand new model.