Stay Alive for Bachmann Baldwin

[Tony Robinson]

Has anyone attempted to add stay alive to the Bachmann Baldwin with sound chip? The chip doesn't appear to have a ground solder pad and I cannot determine whether Bachmann have put one anywhere to solder to on their pcb. I have found someone posting on rmweb that they have soldered to pin 5 of the NEXT 18 socket where they have a 658N18 chip. Tricky but possible.
Obviously I may need to mount any capacitor arrangement externally (in a wagon perhaps) but I'm happy to do that.

Anyone have any comments?

[Greg Millis]

I too would be interested in any answers or experience of fitting a stay-alive to the Bachmann Baldwin - mine is a terrific runner, until it finds a dull patch when it hesitates but, by then, the sound has dropped off.

[JulienW]

have a look at the Tramfabriek website, specifically:

https://tramfabriek.co.uk/bachmann-baldwin-invisible-sound.html