Description

This control board replaces the shaded pole relay found in post war Lionel tenders with the AC motor and the original control board found in modern era tenders with a DC motor. This is a new manufactured item. This board is an improved version of my original whistle controller. I have added a bridge rectifier to provide full wave rectified DC instead of the half-wave as produced by the original Lionel DC board. It produces a much louder whistle sound from the DC whistles especially at low speeds and can drive up to 3 amps making it suitable for K-line, MTH, Williams and other whistle tenders that use DC can motors to drive whistle units. It operates with transformers with a whistle lever and with battery operated whistle buttons. It is polarity sensitive so you may have to reverse track wires for successful operation. Instructions included. If you have a tender with a bad or sticking relay, this board will fix that. It won't help if you have a bad motor. If you are repairing a tender with an AC whistle, look at my other auctions and consider using the Teledyne coupler relay as it will operate AC motors just fine and is smaller than this unit and may be easier to install in smaller tenders. If you are using an MTH controller/transformer setup please contact me before ordering. This board will not work with some MTH controllers. Please see my other auctions for: Lionel Diesel Horn relay - Replaces battery and relay in locomotives. Lionel Teledyne relay - Replaces whistle relay in Teledyne setups. Replacement for Lionel relay used for whistles, horns and couplers (activated by whistle/horn or bell button). If you are unsure of which board is appropriate to repair your train, please feel free to contact me for assistance. I can help you decide what is the best way to fix your train.