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Athearn Blue Box Decoder Direct To Trucks Or Frame Install A Genesis

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Mel My Model Railroad Bakersfield, California Im beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.

I am looking at repowering some of them so that they will run better and have the option to add DCC later.

Im looking on Athearns website, and they have both the Genesis Motor and the High-Performance motor.

Will the new Genesis motor be compatible with the old worm gear and power trucks If I decide to get a HP motor, will I still have to solder the DCC decoder in or will the motor work with a PC board with a DCC plug Thanks.

I didnt have to change the power trucks or worm gears at all, all I did was clean and re-lube them.

Athearn Blue Box Decoder Direct To Trucks Or Frame Install A Genesis

I wouldnt think that youd have to do any major mechanical alterations to install a Genesis motor.

However, I did find this YouTube video on upgrading a Blue Box loco to a Genesis motor that might be helpful: Hope this helps.

Good luck.

When I tried to run them again after 40 years in storage, they ran hesitantly if at all.

I looked into both remotoring and replacing the old sintered wheels.

Then I looked at M.B.

Klein, and found the same engines for less than the cost of rehabbing the old ones.

Compare the costs, and think about you much of a job it would be to fix up an old engine.

The Athearn motor is a 12,000 RPM with 3mm shafts, the Mabuchi 280 is 14,000 RPM with 2mm shafts.

I have cleaned and lubed it several times but it cant hold a steady speed to save its life.

I have an NCE D13SRJ decoder with a TCS KA4 keep alive installed as I have done in most of my Athearn Blue Box locos.

All run quite nicely with the original Athearn motors except this one.

When pulling even a short train, this loco immediately slows as it enters a curve and you really have to give it the Willy to get it up any grade.

It seems to get weaker and weaker as you run it for a while, too.

The back EMF settings of the decoder dont seem to have any effect on this motor.

Would you recommend the work needed to adapt the Athearn flywheels and universals or just go with the NWSL universals and no flywheels This loco will be used to pull short trains up to 10 cars long up grades as steep as 2.6.

The Bachmann motor came with tiny brass (so small its difficult to describe them as) flywheels.

It makes me wonder whether large heavy flywheels do indeed help with a locos momentum.

If I couldnt get them to run without vibration (flywheels off balance) I would scrap the flywheels and go with the NWSL universals.

I really dont like momentum anyway, and if you rely on the momentum because of problems with power pickup Id fix the track.

Im the engineer on my layout and I control the locomotive speed not flywheels or momentum in the controller.