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Phil Bullock

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  1. Cheers haven’t done that! Where 2 or more wires go in to the same terminal there’s plenty for the screw to clamp on to … with a single small diameter wire I strip the end then wind the stripped core back up around the end of the insulation to give the screw more to bite on.
  2. Can I ask what issues you have had … in the interests of avoiding them ! 😉
  3. I have shared your aversion for chock blocks! But have overcome it…. Handy for keeping wiring in place too! It’s all colour coded and am now installing colour coded LEDs on each board so if any bus goes down I will know … and have an idea where to start fault finding. Red… accessory bus Green …. Scenic area track power Blue …. Fiddle yard north end track power Yellow…. Fiddle yard south end track power Also following @WIMorrisons advice and powering frogs using the accessory switch on the Cobalt point motors powered off the relevant track power bus.
  4. We have a 7 amp power supply for ECoS - so far it’s only been the IP-CBs that have been tripping. That might come later though as if we split the fiddle yard roads we could have up to 48 locos on the layout. But prefer to work incrementally whilst on a learning curve. Here are the IP-CBs installed and their above board control panel … I have run the indicator LEDs and reset switches up on to the panel. There’s also a disconnect switch on the panel for each IP-CB. Just got to run the additional buses around the rest of the layout now…. Definitely not an installation for @Clive Mortimore Clive “two wires” Mortimore 😉
  5. If the horn sounds like this … 2 mins in to This video then it’s a Howes sound file.
  6. If you work out what the functions are and post them on here am sure someone will recognise the file structure….
  7. A few observations.. Prior to the Newport stop the SW - NW Warship hauled trains ran via Maindee East and North Junctions … crew change at Pontypool Road or Hereford perhaps? D855 was at Crewe when I visited in 1969 and D862 made it to Crewe in 1971 on the NA - NLW motorail but via Brum I think. The NBLs seemed to wander further than the Swindon built locos appearing in the West Midlands, on Padd - BNS trains and also on Cotswold line trains to Worcester and Hereford in addition to West of England duties whereas the Swindon built locos wandered rather less probably due to their commitment to Waterloo - Exeter jobs until October 71. There’s also the rumour of the LM not liking the Swindon locos under their OHLE due to the exhausts being on the centre of the body line rather than offset as on the NBLs. It’s amazing how much. Interest these locos still generate….
  8. Noooooooooooooooooo!!!! I’d be surprised if even 1 sneaks in!!!! Cash lined up for 25s 31s and 37s…. Although our Western fleet does keep growing …. But nowhere near that full fleet yet. Oil sloshers rule!!! Although we do have to run some other stuff occasionally…. My next loco purchase from our friends at Accurascale will be 57xx ….
  9. Was it the doors themselves John? Or the fact that if you had a rake of wagons it would be difficult to load them with evenly distributed loads … doors on each side only giving access to one end of the wagon?
  10. Gen is here… Tam Valley frog juicers
  11. Pretty central in Brum then. Have you spoken to Redditch they are a friendly bunch . As Phil says a good plan to go and talk to them. It’s a shame their show was 2 weeks ago, that’s always a good opportunity
  12. Yes they worked up to Warwick on oil tanks
  13. And Birmingham covers a large geographical area… a more specific location might help
  14. That’s one expensive loco! Don’t go giving them ideas…
  15. So all the points on the previous incarnation of Abbotswood had Tam Valley frog juicers. On the current layout they are only used on diamonds and reversing loops. They are solid state not relays. We are totally DCC sound … and there are zero issues with them, they do their work without any indication they are there … polarity switching instantaneous. Take a look at layout videos in signature to see them in action … but you won’t notice them! No connection with firm just a very satisfied customer
  16. 34 NBLs might be too many! Luckily we dont have that many…
  17. Only half of them!!! 😉 Yes probably more than in the Black Sea fleet…
  18. So have decided to do as suggested to eliminate another issue going forwards … thanks @WIMorrison
  19. Have been playing with IP-CB and stay alive sound fitted locos this morning. This has revealed that 0.33 amps should be allowed to give a safety margin for IP-CB to be able to reset after a short. 16 sound and stay alive Warships would not allow restart on 4 amps but they were ok with 4.5 amps. Definitely a job for when SWMBO is out!!! IP-CB will support more than that once they are running but it’s the power rush in to the stay alives that pushes up the current draw. As more locos are coming with stay alives installed this is something for folks to think about with their Dcc system perhaps ….
  20. Great progress Neil. Hope we can run them at Winchcombe in July….
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