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The DH165Q1 fits many Atlas, Intermountain, Life-Like & Other factory sound equipped HO locomotives. Installation Instructions - Intermountain F7 example: Removing Locomotive Shell and Disconnecting Lightboard 1. Carefully remove the front coupler and then the locomotive's shell from the frame. Note the orientation for proper reinstallation. 2. Unplug and mark the two track power pickup 2-pin plugs, the motor 2-pin plug and the 6-pin headlight plug(Figure 1) Observe and carefully note the original wire locations! One of the track power plugs and the 2 pin motor plug can be inadvertently swapped when hooking up the new decoder PCB. 3. Unscrew ...
I bought 2 DN163I1A and 2 DN163I1B decoders which have brass . My 4 Inter Mountain FT units do not have brass motor contacts (as I found too late on your DN163I1C documentation for F3 units) but rather 2 wires soldered to the original board. Also, the DN163I1A or B can't be fitted in the space provided on the engine not only because the brass contacts on the decoder get in the way but because on the size of the decoder board is a little too big. Will all above render the decoders useless or what should I do? Because ...