Various bits and other items
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I've managed to get one or two useful little model railway-related jobs sorted today.
First of all, I received a new hand-held controller from Stapleton Electronics, in Canada, in the post this morning. It works off 12 - 18v AC and has very good slow-speed control, with optional 'intertia' settings:
I've tried it out on various locos on Callow Lane and I'm very happy with it.
The reason I ordered the Stapleton controller, though, was due to my trusty AMR hand-held unit developing a fault, which I couldn't initially find...
The AMR unit is one of their slow-speed units, and is sadly no longer available, like all AMR products. Today, however, I had time to take the thing completely apart, only to find that I still couldn't see anything obviously wrong. I had previously tested the four electrical feeds contained within the white cable flex you can see in the photo, but the way it suddenly kept cutting out, depending on which position I was holding it, led me to unsolder the wires from the electronic gubbins inside and strip a section of the white covering away. Sure enough, I found that the red and black wires had frayed where the cable tie holds the white cable in place inside the plastic box. The damaged sections of wire were cut away and the whole thing re-soldered together, and it now works fine again:
Whilst all this has been going on, I've been running a Bachmann 4F in on my circle of Lima set track taped to the floor tiles, and fortunately our cats have kept their distance too:
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