jaym481

It looks like there's room for a chamber heater, in fact Elegoo plan to bring one out specifically for the Saturn 4 soon. Which heater did you get @ianmaccormac? I may just go that route if I end up with the Saturn 4 as the replacement for my aging Saturn 8k (well, not that old, but I could do with a few of the ergonomic improvements of the 4.)

I saw that video, and he mentions that the Thermal Vat Band which is a strip of heating elements inside a thin (less than 1mm I think) case that adheres to the tank might fit. The "band" is 1" wide, so if the tank has 1" of the side that doesn't decend into the chassis with the tilt, it just might work. My basement printer room has the same issue as you - in winter the temperature gets down to 17C and sometimes lower. I also have a portable heater for the room, but I don't think it's adequate to get the resin in the vat up to 25C or more. I have a Thermal Vat Band on order for my Saturn 8K, so I'll have a better idea of size etc.

How much does the vat move on the Saturn 4 Ultra? I'm putting a heater band on my Saturn 8k, and wonder if I were to try the same on the 4 Ultra would it foul the mechanism.

Are they shipping immediately? The Elegoo Canada "store" says "shipping June/July."

Should offer the loco and van as a boxed set.

I have a similar layout and chose the reverse loops on either end. Works well.

Glad I saw this. I am in the process of gradually buying sound decoders for my non-fitted locomotives. Now I know to wait.

Mine had the speaker in the housing, but the wires weren't soldered to the PCB.

They seemed to be close to the longest bar, but they are a necessity at this point, so I'll live with it. I don't understand why UK outline can't do close coupling like Continental HO. I have a rake of Roco coaches that negotiate 20" curves with ease and are so close on the straight you need to look very hard to see daylight between them. That's out of the box.

Thanks. I may have been biased by how locomotive bogies are often sprung in order to keep them on the track.

My short rake of four arrived today. Lovely things in crimson. I'm using Roco close couplers instead of the NEM bars provided as I need to be able to remove them from the layout easily. I had the same upside-down tension-lock couplers described earlier. Annoying, but not in any way a deal breaker. I do have an issue on one bit of code 100 track work where a curve goes into a point. The join is elevated slightly, and three of the four coaches' trailing bogie derails on the leading wheel set. I noticed then that the bogies are attached by a substantial screw, and have a spring which pushes the bogie towards the body of the coach. That seems backward to me - shouldn't it be pushing the bogies towards the track?

ESU does that. https://www.esu.eu/en/products/digital-control/mobile-control-ii/

If it runs OK on DC with the blanking plug in it should run on DCC even if the other functions are not working correctly. Did you get the 36-571 new? If not, the address may be changed and it will need a reset as @WIMorrison mentions above. Not sure if the EZ Command system can even do that though. As for installing it correctly, there should be some indication of what Pin 1 is on both the socket and the decoder.

An update: With the help pf DCC Train Automation and their effort to fix an international postage glitch, I've replaced the Digikeijs module with the LoDi KSM. The first thing I noticed when I powered up the track is that the current draw had gone from about 17mA down to 7mA, so clearly the DR5013 was drawing a fair amount of current. In any case, tests so far the KSM has performed flawlessly, and I've had no issues with the locomotives which caused grief to the 5013 before. Next is to get it set up for detection in the reverse loop. Thanks to all for the suggestions.

My last order was split as well. I especially thought it odd that the one locomotive I ordered was shipped separately, yet there was more than enough room in the box containing the rest of the order. As for the charges, I suspect they decided that absorbing the postage for the final push was a loss they could take.