danners430

As the supplier of said supplies, I can confirm that that is most definitely NOT a Glasgow lunch... it might qualify as a Helensburgh snack supply though! Chairman's perks - ensuring the troops are adequately supplied with waistline-enhancement drugs like Bru, Penguins and Caramel Wafers! What's not shown in the photo is the communal lunch supplied later... we never will reveal where we got the deep-fried pizza from...

Aye, that's the plan.... Only question is whether it's a difficult procedure - hoping it's not a case of cutting traces on the circuit board I'm guessing then that the head & tail lights are simply paired at each end, wired at opposing polarities? Would complicate the wiring a little more, but not overly...

Morning folks, Was wondering if anyone knew how the lighting on the Bachmann 350s operated? I know they are all controlled by the decoder in the "motor coach" through the conductive couplings, but does anyone know the specifics of how this is achieved? Reason I ask is I've fitted a LokSound v4, and am wanting to reprogram it to allow slightly different lighting configurations - namely persistent tail lighting when F0 is off, ideal for when the unit is stabled or at a terminus platform, with the headlights being turned on with F0 dependent on direction. In theory this should be possible, even if it necessitates extra wiring (easy done). Cheers in advance!

Evening all, I had a bit of a brainwave today when designing the wiring for my multiple units. I rather would like to add quite a few (OK, a lot...) of lighting functions to my units - everything from cab lighting, interior lighting, warning / door lights, and of course multi-function headlights. I'm planning on using four wires to simulate the air brake & reservoir pipes, and the two electrical connections that most units have - with the convenient side effect that they can be used for function control. I would, however, like to use two of the wires to make use of the pickups on other vehicles - always useful for pointwork!! I'm using ESU LokSound v4s in most of my units (with more being converted), which offer 4 lighting outputs and 2 logic outputs (negligible power output). My question is, using the auto-off feature (function switches off after units of 0.4 seconds), do you folks think it reasonable to use this to simulate multiple different function outputs? The length of time the function is on can be easily read by a microcontroller, and this then translated into different lighting functions. I would simply assign different functions to different keys, eg. F0 = 0.4 seconds on, F1 = 0.8 seconds on, F2 = 1.2 seconds on etc. Obviously, you could easily fool the microcontroller by rapidly switching on multiple functions linked to this logic output, but I can live with that :-) Also, is this available with the four lighting outputs too? It means I could have umpteen functions, but not have the auto-off function get to a ridiculous length :-) I await your replies :-)