How to Install a DCC Decoder in a DCC Ready Locomotive

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🔴How to install DCC Decoder DiGitrax DN163K1a in a KATO SD40
Installing a DiGitrax DN163K1a Decoder into a KATO N-Scale Santa Fe EMD SD40. Also includes a quick tip with a 9 volt battery and how to see if your KATO SD40 is DCC ready.
This product (DN163K1A) has been replaced by the (1 Amp N Scale Mobile Decoder for Kato N scale SD40-2, SD70MAC and others (DN163K1B)) and is no longer available.
This product (DN163K1B) has been replaced by the (1 Amp N Scale Mobile Decoder for Kato N scale SD40-2 locos made from year 2006 onward (DN163K1C)) and is no longer available.

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27 янв 2010

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@prtdrums 8 месяцев назад

Awesome!! I learned more from you in 10 minutes than of the other videos I've watched so far about n scale, decoders etc. 🏁👍

@IMRROcom 8 месяцев назад

Awesome! Thank you!

@toodabutt70 3 года назад

Thank you! I have around 20 Kato locos. They are years old and have never been out of the box. I'm glad they all have the green labels. My next layout will be DCC!

@IMRROcom 3 года назад

It sound like you have a great collection to start with.

@GlenVerdugoGMRRS 14 лет назад

Nicely explained - illustrated. Simple enough for us HO guys to understand. Good job.

@ScottishNSRailFan 10 лет назад

Video very helpful to me. About to start the installation of decoders on my vast Kato collection, consisting of 68 American locos, with 11 NS Heritage on order.

@nitrofumes2012 4 года назад

Thank you for the excellent video. I too was led to believe that the green box Kato locomotives were DCC friendly until I bought a “revised” F3 unit which has the same unfriendly chassis as the blue box but comes with an upgraded pickup system with newly designed trucks. So not ALL green boxes are DCC friendly. Thanks for the battery trick! Neat!

@IMRROcom 4 года назад

It has been know that some people will swap out a Blue Box mech with a green not mech. But you have a good point. I do not know every thing.

@Silverstatetrains 5 месяцев назад

I just learned this lesson too.

@jeffmorgan1229 5 лет назад

Great information in this video. Thanks for the tips.

@IMRROcom 5 лет назад

Thanks

@adriengadson3544 Год назад

Good video , also Kato I believe made a older chassis that does not have the screws that hold the chassis together. The one I have just used pressure and the factory board tabs to keep it together. I am just posting so people be careful because it is a pain to install a sound decoder in.

@IMRROcom Год назад

Thanks, Missed the comment. Make sure to Subscribe so I can see your comments.

@littleevan99 11 лет назад

TopHobbyTRains has a Atlas GP38-2 and a lot of other units that they have installed Loksound Micro's, Digitrax, MRC, and Soundtraxx Micro Tsunami's in to. They were pretty loud in the videos they had.

@NscalersClub 11 лет назад

I have that SAME loco!!

@rottiuree 13 лет назад

Hi Eric, Good explanation. Have you thought about doing a HO hardwire installation on RU-vid as well?

@jad742 12 лет назад

Great video, I have read somewhere about the use of Kapton tape and I know it is included with the Digitrax decoders. Any thoughts. Thanks John

@Sinistar24 12 лет назад

Do you use Kapton tape? Never done decoder yet, wondering if necessity or not.

@michaelmorgan7893 5 месяцев назад

More like $200 for those on eBay. Those second issue of those from 2010 are hard to come by, for the 5001 and the 5010. I'd like to know how to go back from DCC back to original DC. I bought one used recently that has DCC, but since I don't use DCC, I have no way to program the decoder to go back to DC running, so I want to remove it.

@peterandben 12 лет назад

Do you know where I could get newer Kato couplers? I bought a UP SD40 and it has the old rapidos. (It was cheap though, and it runs great.)

@uprailman Год назад

just install a micro trains coupler. Do not throw away the rapidos

@ANACRUZZO Год назад

Hi there, new in the hobby I´m wondering what DCC is for? i have read that it will only add sound but can´t control 2 trains in the same track... from analog to DCC what is the up grade or difference? please let me know cheers...

@IMRROcom Год назад

DCC is basically remote control for trains. It has nothing to do with sounds. DCC can have sound, but DCC is used to control individual trains.

@sohchx 6 лет назад

I noticed that before you swapped the decoder your engine had light, after the decoder install the engine no longer had a light. Why is that??

@IMRROcom 6 лет назад

sohchx it is now DCC. You turn the light on with your throttle. I'm just running it with a battery and have no way to turn the light on with out putting the engine on to a DCC powered track.

@resmith49 10 лет назад

It appears as if you did not use any kapton tape. Am I right?

@IMRROcom 10 лет назад

Most of the time it is not needed.

@si12volt1 3 года назад

Can you add sound decoder or speaker to that board dcc

@IMRROcom 3 года назад

That I would not know, I would say just get a sound decoder board for it.

@lindadortzbach-hudlin8910 5 лет назад

I put the decoder in and It will only go in reverse, no forward at all, but the light does come on.Any suggestions???

@IMRROcom 5 лет назад

Did you get it to work?

@mikeswyers9951 3 года назад

@@IMRROcom Why didnt you apply the Kepton tape to ground the decoder?

@frustrating123 10 лет назад

you said that you would normally disable the DCC mode in this video. I watched it 3 times. Why would you disable the DCC when you are installing a decoder. Frazzled

@IMRROcom 10 лет назад

Word slip it is DC not DCC