LGB Decoder Fitting Guides - UP 2-4-0

Step 3: Fitting the Tender Decoder

The tender has four screws to release the top, easily accessable from beneath.

A second decoder drops in the main circuit board here as it does in the loco. Line up the pegs with the sockets and push it home firmly. In the above picture the leads are still on the decoder, but they should be removed before re-assembly. Again, don't forget to set the DIP switches (just right of the decoder in this picture).

Now we have both a loco and a tender fitted with separate decoders. Just a reminder therefore, that you'll have to program them both together when changing the loco number etc.. Otherwise all sorts of funny things might happen. I imagine your "chuffing" will respond to a different loco, most un-prototypical!

You can now re-assemble both the loco and the tender. A word of warning, as with any plastic model, be careful not to strip the threads in the plastic. Just screwing the screws in is a sure fire was to make a big hole out of what should be a nice thread. To avoid this, place the screw in the hole, turn it anti-clockwise (as if you were unscrewing it), until you feel it drop down. This means it is now located at the start of the thread, so you can screw it in gently.