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  1. JST

    Hi Iain,

    Just a message by way of a personal thank you for all the work you and Bob Fuller have done on the iTrain videos. I have downloaded the trial version of iTrains and am now busy constructing my Switchboard. All is going well thanks to the video tutorials - it would have been a much longer job without! I just need to get my head around including my Heljan turntable into the track plan and how to import loco pictures. Hopefully my Z21 gear will arrive from Hattons soon!

     

    Again, many thanks.

    John

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  2. pheaton

    What happened to the Hornby elite upgrade thread?

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      WIMorrison

      Ah, I thought I’d was something related to my logon as I am being told that I don’t have permission to view it :(

       

       

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  3. Phil S

    re 'runaway' - I used to have ab ZtC511 ( as i was changing from zero-1 to dcc), and they advocated adding a separate switch to isolate the track when powering up ... I did have some of those early decoders do a 'quick spurt' as power arrived ... I assume it was not a nice clean start ( with apprppriate preamble or perhaps rising  voltage rail initially ???  Also the early Hornby decoder  could 'forget' its address following a short ... then the decoder might be 'running away' because a [loco 3] was not left at zero -speed previously ...

    Nowadays its only 'non zero speed' left from some earlier operating session that might make unwanted loco movements.  I always keep dc running enabled because it allows a9V battery to be used as a quick test of any loco (fitted or not)   ... and alliows the stock to be in analogue mode on our society's demo layout .. if other analogue members have brought theirs.

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      WIMorrison

      As I said on the thread, neither myself or any of my modelling friends have ever seen a runaway and we all leave DC enabled - between us there must some where near 750 locos. It is also interesting that one who attends the local club said this was under discussion because the have 'rules' that DC and Railcom must be disabled on any loco using the club layout, he told me that when he asked why he was told it was because of the problems they cause . though nobody could actually state when they had ever seen a problem that was cured by switching either DC or Railcom off.

       

      It is though the #1 cure offered up by everyone when some reports with anything on their layout. 

       

      I will leave it switched on as I find it useful for simiar reasons to you, and I leave Railcom on because I use it (with zero ill effects :) )

       

      Iain

       

       

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