MÁV V63 005

 I purchased this engine for my Avala and Drava formations. It came in DC and found a DCC Sound decoder from the Hungarian brand DigiTools that I ordered from Vasútmodell.

 

I found that the "extra" piece needed to be glued again by the buffer on the left side.

 

It wasn't easy to remove the body. I did follow the instructions; there are no screws or pieces to remove; it was just stuck and I had to force a little, but no damage was done!

 It took me a while, a long while, to figure out that the decoder was going underneath the main board. It was my mistake since it was actually written in the manual, but looking at the black plug from above, it seemed logical to put on the top rather than removing screws to put it underneath. Anyway ...

 

 

Everything works perfectly on this one (different from my PKP EU07). However, I cannot find out how to change the address from 3 to something else ...

 

PKP EU07-433 - part 1

I purchased this PKP model for several formations for the Ost West Express. It's a brand I didn't know about and from what I could read, they might have some issues during the manufacturing regarding lighting.

In any case, I got the model and only realized later on that the same store - modelcenter.pl - has the related decoder. But it was too late. Later on, as I was looking for a sound decoder for my MÁV Class V63, I found this vendor: digitools.hu. I bought two sound decoders, one for the PKP EU07 and one for the MÁV V63 from this store: vasutmodell.com.

 

 

As it turns out, the speaker is already installed. You can see the 2 black wires right above the decoder going underneath the main board. Under the black wires, it is written SP- and SP+.

I tried to change the DCC address with JMRI, but DigiTools does not have profiles in JMRI, even though it is a recognized manufacturer by the DCC standards - CV8 = 75. I tried to use a NMRA generic profile, but it didn't work.

I then tried to use the engine with the default address #3 and the engine did response to DCC commands. And the sound did work which confirmed that the speaker was indeed installed at the factory. That said, there must be a short somewhere because the DCC-EX would reboot and restart after a couple of seconds. Thankfully, everything is protected with DCC Concept modules.

More investigation required ...