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  1. I think I understand what your saying, but unless both Kadees are “open” the remote coupling function will not work. I use the “Kadee shuffle” on my locos but it isn’t that reliable TBH, I find a dozen or so micro magnets 3mm x8mm in the track do a good job.
  2. Unfortunately it doesn’t keep the real advantage of Kadees in that unless the truck has the same mechanism fitted you won’t get the remote uncoupled shunting feature.
  3. I didn’t say he had, I was talking about the controller which is Hornby’s cheap standard controller.
  4. STOP IT, STOP IT, STOP IT I promised I wouldn’t buy another Loco before Christmas, and your not helping 😄
  5. Seems dumb to not even use a Loco that is in the TT range, colour, name, smoke deflectors etc etc Then again ever since the launch there have been some very, very strange manipulated publicity graphics published.
  6. Sorry to mention “his” name but….Sam’s trains had a test of a trains set which came with that controller and it buzzed and was basically not good at all, he changed to his normal GM controller and the Loco performed well.
  7. They can’t, AS don’t make a Class 46 yet…….do you McC? 😉
  8. Possibly some drag or Stiction in the mechanism or a bogie gearing, it does seem drastically slower.
  9. I know, over 20 years ago I used to work in Japan a lot and brought back tons (well a bloomin’ lot) of Kato N stuff in my luggage and built and layout, all DCC with simple clip in decoders without taking the bodies off the EMU/DMUs remote points with built in motors, quad point crossovers as one piece and far, far better detail and completely different league of running qualities of our own home grown N gauge back then, Farish might have been clockwork compared to the Kato locos. I didn’t dare look in the model shops when working in Europe…….yes OK I did, but at least didn’t get tempted as well 😆
  10. Exactly, and that’s why I did, as AS seem to be able to include all this extra function and detail for less cost than the competition, regardless of “overheads” which always seem to be the excuse, just more likely a better profit margin required.
  11. Don’t forget though HO models have had controllable pantos for years, and in G scale for decades! It is just Accurascale are now bringing the kind of detail and model engineering enjoyed outside of the UK to our market now and amazingly for a lower cost than than we pay for the same old same old we have had for years, AS have really started shaking the UK model tree and great models have started falling from it, from other manufacturers as well.
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