That’s it for the prep steps. Now it is time to install the decoder,
headlight LED, and speaker.
Final assembly and wiring
Cut the LokSound wires to the right length. The exact length
will depend a bit on the exact placement of the decoder on the
frame, but the orange wire is about 20 mm; the gray about 22
mm; the red and black about 32 mm. Then I strip the ends of
the wires and tin them with solder.
Before installing the decoder, I install the surface-mount LED
for the front headlight. I use a sunny white SMT LED from
Richmond Controls that comes with 6” fine magnet wire
attached. You want just enough wire to loop at the end of the
“channel” in the top part of the frame and hook to the white
and blue wires.
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19. The milled frame showing the locations of the
Kapton tape.
Place Kapton tape
around these openings
