DCC - Electrical
Tortoise Motor Tester
One issue that I encountered building the layout is that occasionally the switch motor installation needed a bit of tweaking before it worked correctly. The tortoise motor always worked, but sometimes the motor position, alignment or extended actuator wire shape was, shall we say, suboptimal. I had been hooking things up, then wandering around with the throttle and triggering the motors with switch commands. But I found this was a pain, particularly when the turnout was in an inaccessible part of the layout.
Puzzling performance of Atlas GP-15 with Digitrax replacement board
Hi everyone. I have two N-Scale Atlas GP-15 locos that have Digitrax DN163A4 installed.
One of them performs perfectly but the other has a severely limited top speed. A crawl is about all it will do. I have made no adjustments to either decoder other than changing the address of each. I have checked CV 5 and 6 and both are set to 0 on each loco.
Any bright ideas?
David
UR91 PROBLEM
I got 2 UR91s that I got hooked up to the layout. I started having this problem with them both hooked up in the line together, they would stop working on radio. I would unhook one and the other would work, same with the other one also. Both ID's are the same. I took them both off the layout and hooked them straight into the DCS100 and it would work perfect, same for the other. I hook them back into the layout where they are on the same line around the layout and they quiet working if both are hooked up. I don't know what the problem is, someone know?
Bachmann DD40AX decoder ?
Could anyone tell me what decoder is that's used in the h0 Bachmann DD40AX ( non-sound version) ?
The decoder has the following code on the heat shrink tube: [012CB] which doesn't ring a bell,
the exploded view shows it as H4915#DCC06 .
Could it be a 44915 ? I wonder because the loco has a 'strobe light' which is driven by the decoder and the 44915 doesn't have that option ?
TIA
cheers, Leo
Garage layout plan needs a bridge.
I have one side of the garage bench work complete. I need ideas on what to use as a "mainline run" spanning the width of my garage door (11') to the other half of the layout.
HO Scale
NS Frankfort Division (Frankfort Yd. - Tipton Yd.)
Mid 1990's
DCC install help? MRC 1907 in Atlas S4
I'm having a wee problem with this install and hope somebody can give me some advice.
This decoder is designed as a drop in replacement specifically for this loco - however, it seems that my particular model might be an older version or something as there appears to be one less screw hole than expected by the decoder.
the red arrow shows the screw which is installed, but there's no hole in the chassis to accept a screw at the purple arrow.
>> Posts index
Navigation
Journals/Blogs
Recent Blog posts: