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Thank you for the speedy replies. I obviously missed these threads. I ended up hard wiring the decoder to the loco and it’s working. It’s a lovely loco. Great detail and I quite like the new tender connector Hornby are using. Just a shame my assumption that the set up of this loco was going to be a quick plug and play process was wrong. A bit of a bad mark for a £250 loco where major elements of the kit a promoted incorrectly. I’ve already pre-ordered the lner p2 Lord President 21 pin and already bought a 21 pin sound decoder for it. The website still says it’s a 21pin decoder for the P2. I’m hoping Hornby have learnt from their mistake, and that I can be confident in assuming their future products reflect the key specs as documented and advertised. Thanks again for the replies. Cheers, Dan

Hello, I’ve been excited on the arrival of my new 21 pin A3 Harvester from Hornby. It has arrived and I also duly ordered a D&H 21 pin sound decoder because I wanted some features the hm 7000 21 pin decoders don’t offer; namely adjusting chuff sounds. Ive just removed the tender from the loco and am about to install my D&H 21pin sound decoder and to my surprise the pin socket in the loco is an 8 pin socket, despite the box clearly saying the loco is dcc ready for 21 pin decoder. Am I missing something obvious? Or is this an advertising blunder by Hornby? Or am I missing something entirely? Ive also preordered other 21 pin locos coming and hoping they won’t surprise me and be 8 pin as well. Can anyone assist? I’ve added photos in case I’ve missed something obvious. Thanks in advanced.