What is this daughter board on the Dapol Class 52 Western?

[Esmedune]

Good Morning campers!

I've just picked up a non-working Dapol Class 52, that claims to not be functioning in the motor department. I have taken the top off to grab a peek and there is a card on the pins, but having not seen the blanking plate for a Dapol, I just want to double check. If it is a blanking plate, it is a posh one, as it has two slide switched to illuminate either or both cabs on DC.

Can anyone just confirm that is what it is?

A second question concerning a base board... Are the two unmarked contacts in the lower right corner a placement for an additional capacitor?

[WIMorrison]

Looks like a blanking card that is designed to facilitate switching of LEDS when used on DC

[jpendle]

Dapol don't have a "standard" Next 18 blanking plate. They have added switches for lights to most of the others that I have seen. The newer CL66's have a similar arrangement.

The model would have come with instructions to describe what the switches are for, these might be available on the Dapol website.

 

Regards,

 

John P

[Kaput]

Its just one of the standard new Dapol blanking plugs that have switches to control the lights on DC.

 

No idea about the contacts but if they were actually for something I'd assume they'd be labelled.

[Darius43]

13 hours ago, jpendle said:

Dapol don't have a "standard" Next 18 blanking plate. They have added switches for lights to most of the others that I have seen. The newer CL66's have a similar arrangement.

The model would have come with instructions to describe what the switches are for, these might be available on the Dapol website.

 

Regards,

 

John P

Looks like a 21 pin blanking plate rather than a Next 18.

 

Shouldn't the “TRK-L” contact on the main board have a track feed wire soldered on - presumably the same for the “TRK-R” contact on the other side?

 

Cheers

 

Darius

[Kaput]

The track and motor wires on those PCB's are usually soldered underneath so hard to tell from the angle of the image if anything is missing.

[Phil Bullock]

17 hours ago, jpendle said:

Dapol don't have a "standard" Next 18 blanking plate. They have added switches for lights to most of the others that I have seen. The newer CL66's have a similar arrangement.

The model would have come with instructions to describe what the switches are for, these might be available on the Dapol website.

 

Regards,

 

John P

Merry Christmas all
 

Printing on the blanking plate describes what the switches are for… FCAB and RCAB …. Front and rear cabs. 
 

Cheers

[Esmedune]

1 hour ago, Phil Bullock said:

Merry Christmas all
 

Printing on the blanking plate describes what the switches are for… FCAB and RCAB …. Front and rear cabs. 
 

Cheers

Merry Christmas Phil!

[Esmedune]

Well, this turned out to be a bargain. I picked it up for £70 on ebay as not working, and you can see from the image that C10 had been soldered incorrectly. So it has never works, and after a 30 minute run-in, it is purring like a kitten!