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Solenoids now working on test rig

I bought several CANSOLs from MERG for powering the solenoids but unfortunately the first one I built had problem with one of PICs. I suspect I have a probably put in something else wrong but it ran hot and probably melted something, Voltage regulator was also very hot. Built a second CANSOL yesterday afternoon and today I tested it. This one ran cold but for quite a while it refused to go into FLIM. I eventually found the problem that one of the PICs wasn't quite seated in its slot, this done t
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We have made contact...

Spent Sunday afternoon working on test rig with the aim to get the CBUS electronic modules talking to the computer.    I wired everything up and the power was working but for some reason none of the modules were going into the correct mode on the data bus. After quite a bit of pondering I decided that the cause could be one of three things. The software, the hardware or the wiring. Luckily I had made a gizmo to test the modules and this found nothing wrong with them. The computer was f
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Carrying on with track bus and LCB

Well I had a problem with my CANAC8C and CANACC8 test rig which after some help from the MERG forum I managed to get fixed, dodgy wire at fault and me probably programming it wrong.    6 stock trays are now built and all my rolling stock has being unpacked. Some needs quite a lot of cleaning after being in storage but since nothing is running yet its not the priority.   Have built a couple of other MERG CBus Kits and now constructing the first CANSOL. The plan after that is t
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LCB continued and starting Stock Storage

On Bank Holiday Monday I made my first dividers for the stock drawers. Used 9mm ply for the ends and 3mm ply for the dividers. Measured the width between the slots as 45mm which enables enough room for me to get my fingers into the slot to pick up the stock. Haven't glued dividers in as they are tightly wedged (sprung) into the slots. Unpacked some Hornby stock some of which hasn't seen the light of day for a couple of years. Usefully I found that two Hornby coaches (the grouping sort) will fit
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Where are those bolts?

Its taken nearly 12 months since my last post, but finding out that the roof of our new house had been left structurally unsupported by the previous owners extension has taken a lot of time and worry to sort out. (according to professionals this is a really rare case and very unlucky) So for 12 months I was very stressed out while getting this fixed and couldn't even work easily on my favorite hobby to take my mind off things. The only projects I worked on over the winter was a 16mm kit bash and
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