[OgdenNY@aol.com]

First of all, I highly recommend that you purchase the stock Parma controllers. They have a stock resistance of 45 ohms. Those controllers will MOST definitely will allow you to run most any stock ho car on the market. If you decide you want to start modifying your cars, you would most likely have to change the resistor that is in the controller.

[HORacePro@aol.com]

Converting a Parma controller to Tomy style plugs, well there isn't really a good way to do it. You have your choice of bad ways. You can cut the modular plug off a defunct Tomy controller (lots of those!), and splice the wires together. Or you can solder the wires of the Parma controller directly to pieces of brass tubing of the right size. You may have to cut the tubing down its length to give it some spring action.

But if you are going to this much trouble, it may be more productive to wire your layout for some honest-to-god electrical plugs and jacks. You can buy them at Radio Shack. I use 1/4" stereo phone plugs and jacks. On the phone plug (the male connector) I connect the red wire to the tip of the plug, the black wire to the ring and the white wire to the sleeve (body) of the plug. The jack (the female connector) gets wired so the white wire goes to the negative side of the power supply, the red wire goes to the positive side, and the black wire goes to the right-hand conductor on one lane of the track. The left-hand conductors on all of the lanes get wired to the positive side of the power supply.