Chipping the Lima Class 117 DMU

I talked about the Lima Class 117 DMU a few days ago and said that I wanted to fit a DCC chip to it and amazingly this is a project that has now been completed rather than sat on a bench for days/weeks/months/years/decades!

With the body off the motor was once again revealed and a suitable DCC chip by Lais brought out of the WMD Stores..

The actual fitting of the chip went quickly with no complications.

Once the wiring had been soldered it was time to wrap the wire up and locate the chip in a discrete place within the body. It was at this point that I could very easily been drawn into a rabbit hole of a project as I could add additional electrical pickups, lighting both external and internal and detail the interior with a repaint and driver and passengers. However, I have resisted leaving that for another day/week/month/year/decade!

With the body back on it was time to test on the layout and given that I had cleaned the wheels a few days ago there were no issues. It will never run as well as the current Bachmann models but it runs fine for what I want and given that the motor growls there is no need to add a sound DCC chip!