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Okay, you have a locomotive with an 8-pin socket and a de-
coder with the 9-pin JST wiring harness. How do you install the
decoder easily?
The easiest answer is use a conversion harness of the minimum
length needed to make your installation. Several manufacturers
make these harnesses in a variety of lenghs from fractions of
an inch to several inches.
That’s fine, but what if your decoder, such as the SoundTraxx
Tsunami TSU-1000, has shrink-wrap over the JST socket? Care-
fully remove the shrink-wrap (10) and unplug the JST harness.
Plug in the JST to NEM-652 harness of the appropriate length.
Figure 10 details the steps to remove the heat-shrink tubing.
Working from the connector side of the decoder, not the flat
From Mr. DCC’s workbench
– Adding an 8-pin Harness to a JST-style Decoder
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9: JST to NEM-652 conversion harness (9-pin to 8-pin).
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10: JST to NEM-652 harness (9-pin to 8-pin).
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side, carefully cut into the shrink in the middle of the JST con-
nector. Then peel the heatshrink back, being careful not to dis-
lodge the heat sink (if there is one).
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