DCC - Electrical
DCC Conversion - Small N-Scale 0-6-0 Saddle Tank
My younger brother, who is in the early stages of building a new, large N-scale layout, recently asked me (as the family's DCC and electronics expert) to convert one of his older locomotives to DCC operation.
Converting loco from DCC to DC
I have a Bachmann On30 Forney that I want to convert from the OEM DCC Soundtraxx decoder to straight DC. This is what I think I need to do and would like input as to whether this is correct:
Power Districts Design Questions
I am in the process of determining the breaker protected district locations on my layout in preparation for DCC power bus wiring. Currently I have the layout divided into these individual blocks:
Need some DCC help
Am new to DCC, and need some help. It has been a frustrating couple of nights.
I have a NCE ProCab and a three foot piece of flex track that I am using for my programming track. I am using DecoderPro3 with the NCE USB interface
I have three loco's, and all have problems that I can not figure out.
1) Bachmann 70T with Bachmann DCC installed. Works fine, except that the headlights only come on when the headlight button is pushed on the ProCab. They do not come on based on direction. I have it set up as the Bachman 4 function decoder (36-550).
Electro or Custom?
Construction of the Second Spline Helix - Part 3 - DCC Testing
I finally finished the second of two spline helices for my N-scale layout that is under construction. I have included a video, this time with sound, since it is a sound equipped engine, that shows the results of the first DCC test of the second helix.
Procrastinating or what?
OK. I'm in a funk. I've got all these tortoise switch machines that, I assume, can do power routing to my frogs but want to plan for DCC controls of the mainline switches (future JMRI) but really don't feel confident about getting started.
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GOOD MORNING TO ALL...this is a short video of what i purchased in the past 2 weeks. this is the first of 3 videos i will be posting. the next one will be a layout update & the final one, a review of a new product to me & a "how to" from start to the finished product.
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thanks for watching...comments & subs are welcome
vinny...aka...bnsf6951
Sound Test Board
This video is great, the test board and miniature speakers make me think it would be worth building something like this for testing before installing.
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=N3B__iNYyNU
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