Class 37 lighting and couplers

[nick]

Hi
I have just purchased a farish class 37 in EW&S livery, and want to add lighting to it, ... to run directionally and would like advice how to add it preferably using miniature led bulbs, my difficulty is how do i do it with the least disturbance to the chassis, also i would like to replace the couplings with microtrains couplers,it would be better if i had a diagram of the chassis to identify the attachment points for the bulbs, if any of you have converted it to microtrains couplers which set did you use as there is a range to choose from.
Many thanks in advance for your help.

Nick.

[Foghut]

Hi
I have just purchased a farish class 37 in EW&S livery, and want to add lighting to it, ... to run directionally and would like advice how to add it preferably using miniature led bulbs

....and are you using DCC (or not) ?

[nick]

Hi foghut,
I could fit a dcc chip i know as at the moment i am using a dc layout.

[Foghut]

Well I don't have a model railway but I do have an interest in electronics. I believe that some DCC decoders have outputs for lighting that will change over with direction. It does of course require a fair degree of cutting/soldering, unless your loco has a DCC socket already.

I expect that you would have to convert the whole layout to DCC rather than just having a chipped loco on a DC system in order to benefit - go on splash out, you know you want to ;)

[nick]

Hi Foghut,
DCC locos can be used on a dc layout but have a slight delay in moving off, i do have a dcc system its just setting it up as my ideal scenario would be to have a room just dedicated to my layout.
Nick.

[Foghut]

Yea I think you need to be using a DCC controller in order to benefit from the loco chip functions of swapping the head /tail lights, etc.