BLI N Stealth board?

[peteski]

So I did try and replace a P3 with a stealth board to see if it would work. Yea let’s just say it doesn’t, to me this is just a big miss on their side. I have not gotten back to it after frying some LEDs.  The DC board worked ok, the LEDs were on and the loco ran. When I put in the ESU decoder and tested the LEDs started flickering and we’re gone before I could get the track power off (this was performed with the esu programmer)

Interesting.  So you took a Paragon-equipped P3 and a Stealth equipped P3, and swapped the boards between them?  LEDs fried, but did the decoder survive, or also got damaged?

I would like to get to the bottom of this, but I don't have many BLI locos and not planning on buying any Stealth models.

[reinhardtjh]

Interesting.  So you took a Paragon-equipped P3 and a Stealth equipped P3, and swapped the boards between them?  LEDs fried, but did the decoder survive, or also got damaged?

I would like to get to the bottom of this, but I don't have many BLI locos and not planning on buying any Stealth models.

Stealth didn't start until after the P4 was out so I doubt there are any P3 Stealth boards.  I'm guessing some of the outputs of the decoder which weren't internally current limited were hooked to LEDs that didn't have any current limiting on the stealth board either and cause the burnout.  The connectors might be similar between P3 and P4 but maybe the outputs are not the same.  I have a feeling the same might happen if you put a P4 decoder into the wiring for a P3.

[peteski]

Good point John.

[Wolf N Works]

That is my thinking also John, I was still hoping though.