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Marcus-Jay

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  1. Is this without circuit board mods/tape? I didn't bother to see if I could separate out the 4 lights (front red/white rear red/white) using the decoder as I assumed they were hard wired to work for DC.
  2. I'd like to know what this connector is? A new PCB would sort out all the issues, but I can't identify this specific connector.
  3. Assuming it is a full 14 coach rake did anyone notice how it is coupled together? Are the magnetics holding their own now?
  4. 70001 on in the first few days of opertation: I'd say that was clagging a bit :-)
  5. @Code3Displays- Can I join the queue for these kits, please? Happy to guinea pig as well. Plenty of electronics experience to assist :-)
  6. Not having a lot of success with the magnetic couplers on a full 16 coach set. My initial expectations were the wheel sets were just new and needed running in. However, after an hour of looping round the MRC test track (being pushed) the coaches thrn failed to remain joined together when pulled. Will try some lubrication on the bearings to see if that frees things up, but at this point the magnetic couplers don't seem up to connecting a full set of coaches.🙁
  7. Had my first run of my set last night and they are quite spectacular. We have a day and night set of videos on our club page: Stevenage and District MRC Out of the box the full rake of 16 coaches proved a little heavy for the magnetic couplers. I suspect the wheel sets will free up with a bit of running. The rake felt very heavy even as a manual movement. The really funny thing is packing your stock away and the lights still being on as you put the lid on the box 🤣
  8. A slightly tenuous link to the MkV coaches but since they are in them might as well as here as anywhere else.... What is the correct term for the cling film esq material these coaches, and lots of other things are shipped wrapped in. This is the wrap that goes around each individual coach. Would like to order a roll for other packaging solutions. Thanks
  9. All the better for little meets large 😃 This might also be the first Caledonian 92 to travel across Ranoch Moor.
  10. Mine have arrived. I'm away working so won't see them for days. Ces't la vie. Might take them on the real thing next week 🤣
  11. Have you looked at the Dingo Servo Mounts? I've used a great many of these units, across several layouts. They are servo driven but provide a linear motion for the point motion so distance between the mount and the servo is relatively irrelevant.
  12. Ahh, I think I had a moment! The in stock button only appears if there is stock available, as opposed to In Stock (0) for nothing available (which might be a helpfuly addition for those like me that didn't get it. But the 'in stock now' page is great. Well it was till I spotted a few things I wanted 🤣
  13. Probably the wrong place to make this comment, but the sold out button is a bit of a backwards offering on the accurascale.com site. Perhaps, the alternate showing what is *In stock* would be more useful for people with money to spend :-)
  14. Hello. Having not trawled the 24 pages of this thread... I'm curious could one supply there own artwork for printing, and if so what formats would be required? .ai/.psd/.pgn or something else? For example I am thinking on renumbering a batch of HAA wagons and it would be easy enough to whip up a sheet or two and send it on. Thanks in advance. Marcus
  15. Just to illustrate what I will be doing here are a couple of CAD ideas for the layout extension. All are rough renders The platform and buffers are in the edge of one board. The River board has a small extnesion of land (probably an in filledf brick built wall about 3 meters (1:1) from the end of the track. the wall will likely extend up a bit as well. The river will be having a weir, or somesuch under the bridge as it will be a new set of banks constructed when the bridge was re-built. Thanks all for the help and pointers.
  16. Thank you all for the pointers and replies. I followed up on Mr Ratty's direction to New Holland Pier. As you can see from the snip from the Disused Stations website the former station seems to do what I was after. After reading the replies, perhaps the question could have been could a passenger line terminate close to the edge of the water where an over run would end up with the train in the drink. Further searching led me to this. Which is the kind of buffer stops.... then drop situation. Again, thank you all for the pointers, now I can say it's occurs in real life, so modelling it is fine.
  17. Could be, but not quite as "close to the edge" as I'm looking for.
  18. All, I'm looking to extend an existing layout. The station does the job required and I don't want to make any major modifications to it. However, I'd like to add a freight terminal by extending some existing sidings. These sidings I'd like to separate, from the station, by a river. So my question is; Is there a real-world example of a railway station/platform terminating very close to a river, or at a higher level to a drop. Lymington Pier is close, but the water is to the side rather than head-on. My envisaged geography would be more like the end of Cricklewood yard. My quick sketch modification of a google map view shows the idea I have. Yes, I know what happened with the escaping 31s here! The platform road end is indicated. The buffers need to be very close to the end and the track will end roughly where the overhead mast is on the siding end. In terms of physical layout size, the end of the platform ramp to the end of the track is approximately 100-120mm. The freight lines will continue on a separate bridge, a little further back than the MML is in the pic. The river will be where the north circular would be, so a short distance away and well below track level. Naturally, rule #1 can apply if need be. However, it would be nice to know an example existed in the real world somewhere! It need not necessarily be a river. It could be a high-level station with a bay ending next to a sheer drop sort of thing. Thoughts, please?
  19. Another day getting on with layout snagging yesterday. We decided not to set up the entire layout and concentrate on making sure that boards were operating correctly. Without having the layout set up we can easily tip boards on their sides for diagnostics or repairs. Our first problem to solve was a number of points not throwing. Either at all or in just one direction. Whitedown is currently based around a Lenz DCC system and we use LS150 modules to control the points on each board. We were finding that a few points were not programmed correctly, quickly fixed. A few were thrown the wrong way, which was sorted by swapping of wires on the LS150. But we had a problem with a single point only throwing in one direction. Initially, we could throw one way then back, but after the initial throw, we would lose one direction. Swapping of wires did not stop the problem, reprogramming didn't help, so eventually, we replaced the Peco solenoid motor and everything worked. Another problem was the loco sidings by the station were not getting power. A broken jumper wire was traced to be the cause of the complete siding problem, but we were still getting no power to the point. Eventually, we discovered the point was being back-fed by the siding track. A bizarre problem that fixed another problem. However, once we fixed the siding the point lost power so we added a new set of droppers to the point and everything works as it should. With this all done we put the station and throat boards together, quick and dirty joining on a tabletop, just to make sure all of the electricals worked after the siding rewire. It did. Then finally we checked one of the juction boards, pictured below , and a couple of the points had to be reversed so they threw the right way. We are having a month off for Xmas, but we should be getting together again in January for another session of maintenance and checking. But we hope that in February we will be good for a full running session.
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