CotBob

This is a bit of a request for aid from anyone who has fitted a Digitrax DZ126 to their small England. I am having great difficulty in setting the CV's to give smooth running at low speed it judders a lot when run slowly, without a rather annoying ticking sound from the motor. This noise which doesn't change in frequency as speed changes I can get rid of but only at the expense of the slow speed juddering coming back. Any advice on the CV's around back EMF would be really helpful :-)

Once the weather is warm enough, and it's summer, I will have to drag the old (brand new) GSX1000GT up there. Looking back at that previous sentence I realise that there is one of the reasons modelling is so slow hereabouts, why did I spend so much on a fair weather machine?

My main struggle is stopping the cats try to catch them when running, they loose interest once the locos stop. Sorry not too helpful I know.

A collection of quarry Hunslet locos small and less small

Good luck with the new arrival. Nesta now runs pretty well both ways after a slight tight spot going backwards has been run in, or out as it were. Dorothea, who is still DC only has also a slight tight spot in reverse but she is being run in now so fingers crossed.

I am not sure that works, I didn't try Nesta on DC until after I had put the chip in and run it for a while. It was definitely not as smooth on DC as DCC and it has improved more as it has run. It had an issue going backwards at first but it has eased a lot as it has run,

Interestingly the only thing I changed was 57 to limit the top speed I set it to 50 which seems reasonable. I gather it allows full resolution while limiting the top speed.

I don't want to trigger the inner rivet counter, but Nesta should have a free standing handbrake column. I am fine with it though.

While we are on the subject of baseboards, has anybody used Model Railway Solutions boards? I could build them myself, but know the limit of my skill in cutting and assembling bits of wood, and want the single board I need to be flat and level.

They sent Charles by DPD, so maybe there is a chance that will happen again. I guess there are potentially three times as many orders to fulfil just in 009 compared to when he was sent so it may take a bit longer to process.

Fingers crossed, I am still waiting on Rails shipping my pair Dorothea and Nesta in spite of them taking the money yesterday. Those two do look marvellous together.

My two, Nesta and Dorothea, are on their way too, hopefully. If Rails use the same method with them as Charles it will be DPD next day. Now to work out which one to chip and which will have to wait more money and more stock in places.

To the immense relief of nobody but myself, and whoever it was that had a reasonably cheap Piko Smartcontrol light in stock, the new control unit runs all my problematic loco's, both of them, perfectly with the added bonus that I can assign sometimes helpful symbols to function buttons so I don't forget which does what.

I am most sorry for having done that to you ,no inner pain was intended with my post ;-)

It would be marvellous to see a section of the Penhryn system. Peco include a possible layout for Port Penhryn in the 009 track plans book. I don't have space, and really want a roundy roundy layout rather than an endy endy one so will have to try inspire someone else to do it.