Hello!
I’ve been converting four Lionel Ready to Play F7 engines over to LocoFi. I’m a life long RC guy but spent a lot of time as a kid with my dads old ‘50s vintage Lionel O gauge trains and I love the concept of the LocoFi product! Obviously the Lionel Ready to play line is not the most scale stuff out there but I somehow ended up with tons of track and 5 train sets of it! After having lots of fun trying to juggle a consist of 4 Locomotives using 4 different handheld transmitters for awhile my research led me to LocoFi And I promptly ordered 4 DDLLHA units! My approach to this project is keep It lighthearted and have fun with this cool product from LocoFi!
So I figured if anyone is interested in this process I’d start a thread for it!
Starting with this guy! Outside:
Inside:
more Pics and notes to follow:)
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After a lot of research and trial and error I’ve determined that the original motor in the Lionel RTP F7 is a 3 pole RS-360 type. This motor does not work well with the DDLLHA unit. In this discovery process I tested a couple of 5-pole motors, an HO Walthers 5-Pole Skew-Wound and an O gauge MTH RS-385PH and both of course run beautifully with the DDLLHA unit! So I ordered a few Mabuchi RS-365 motors. The 365 motors are a direct physical replacement for the old 360’s and have similar performance specs to the MTH 385 and of course are a 5-pole motor.