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It depends on which QSI Magnum decoder you are talking about. They built two different versions.. QSI was a key partner in the development of the sandard for the socket and they sold a version where all the pins were connected per the standard they helped develop. QSI was also at the time very involved with Lewis Polk at Aristocraft and tested out a large number of their locomotives. QSI found that several Aristocraft locomotives had unpredicted connections to socket pin #s J1:5, J1:7, J2:4, J2:5, J2:6, J2:7, J2:8, and J2:9, Even Louis did not know that this was the case and indicated that no locomotive in the future would have these strage connections.

To protect their decoder designed for Aristocraft Locomotives, QSI built a special decoder for Aristocraft locomotives where the smoke, chuff input and functions outputs were not connected.

You can use these decoders in the Dash-9 and neither the locomotive or the decoder will be damaged. However you will not be able to control these extra functions without extra work.

Hope this helps.

Stan

Greg

Why do you continue to be so hostile. This is a time of great joy that Bachmann had started reworking some of the previous Aristocraft product.

I try my best to provide accurate information but I do not profess to be an expert. And like others I can make mistakes, when I do I admit them.

I am clearly not an expert on the various version of QSI decoders.

Perhaos it is best we talk off line and clear up some misconceptions each of us might have. I would welcome that conversation.

Note: Per the standard, the smoke pin used on ALL Bachmann locomotives that have the socket is a normal function pin that is no different from any other function pins.

Bob

Following is a link to an early version of the QSI decoder installed in a Bachmann K27 written in 2007. If you have this QSI version,It will work in the Bachmann Dash-9, However, please note the caveat in the writeup. This QSI version designed for the Aristo locomotives did not have any connectios to the function pins on J2.
https://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/k-27/installdocuments/QSI_Solutions.pdf

QSI was a Key contributor to the development of the socket Bachmann is using in its locomoitives. It was they who discovered the various somewhat random use of J2 in several Aristocraft locomotives, In later years they had two versions of decoders one for Aristo locomotives with no function conections to J2 and one for Bachmann locomotives with all the functions on J2 active,

I am a 1:20 modeler and we had several QSI decoders in various Bachmann locomotives for a number of years. Alas our operators did not like some of their features and we eventually sold them all off.

Just trying to be helpful

Stan