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I saw an New Aristo Craft GP40 up close and personal at the BTS in the St Aubin's booth and thought that this might be a nice addition to the PCSRR stable. So I chose a UP yellow #622 and decided to try something new. There's been some noise about the plug and play into Aristo-Craft locomotives with QSI/G-Wire match up that will link with the Airwire 1300 and 9000 throttles.
Bottom line..... Yup, they work like a charm after I read the instructions and found that one of the cables wasn't quite right. If at first somethings not working. It's best to read the instructions, right????
Plugged a full 26.5 volts into the battery connection on the GP40 and polarity don't make no difference no how. If'n you got the polarity backwards, the thing will run in reverse as the throttle defaults to the green light. Just reverse the polarity and it runs the right direction with absolutely no release of magic smoke.
I was able to very easily program all the necessary CV's with my 1300 throttle and the unit is running on the layout as I type under full control.... We'll be doing some run time tests for comparison to our other locomotives.
The single GP40 is pulling a 9 pound battery car, 9 Bachmann box cars, 5 Great Trains metal road railers and a caboose without breaking into a sweat.
I'm pleased.... Thanks, Mark.
Bottom line..... Yup, they work like a charm after I read the instructions and found that one of the cables wasn't quite right. If at first somethings not working. It's best to read the instructions, right????
Plugged a full 26.5 volts into the battery connection on the GP40 and polarity don't make no difference no how. If'n you got the polarity backwards, the thing will run in reverse as the throttle defaults to the green light. Just reverse the polarity and it runs the right direction with absolutely no release of magic smoke.
I was able to very easily program all the necessary CV's with my 1300 throttle and the unit is running on the layout as I type under full control.... We'll be doing some run time tests for comparison to our other locomotives.
The single GP40 is pulling a 9 pound battery car, 9 Bachmann box cars, 5 Great Trains metal road railers and a caboose without breaking into a sweat.
I'm pleased.... Thanks, Mark.