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Coming to this late, I am a lapsed modeller, life doesn’t allow me time. below is a link to a video I made which is how far I got with TC. It’s a demo that shows the “basic” capability of TC. For me it is simply is the best. I have the Railroad and Co Gold v7 usb dongle but I don’t think I can sell it secondhand perhaps I need to ask Herr Freiwald.

Fantastic tutorial Andy thank you for posting.

i think you will find the NCE Switch 8 a good option. it can drive eight tortoi from a nice compact pcb. Only drawback is it takes the power from track supply so can reduce power capacityfrom ypur control unit for running lococs. That said i have run 21 points and the power usage was minimal. my layout had 21 motors, 12 lsound locos , and other addotions all running off the power of the dcc controller and the ammeter has never passed 2 amps yet! in the real electrical world we call it diversity i.e. not every thing will operate at the same time.

Jeff to power the table via DCC you simply supply a 12v dc motor via a loco decoder big enough to take the current. That way you can control the speed, direction and get some steady alignment. Just a thought

Always a fascinating thread to dip in and out of, thanks John. The info on lamp construction was particulary on time to answer a question I had, however I have another what do you use for the spectacle lens... Acetate? Where do you get it from? Regards Pete

Thanks for the update Simon, i saw Millport at Preston and it left a lasting impression so much so i bought a back copy Of RM with Millport featured. Nice to see work being done to re-furb the layout and will look forward to when it hits the circuit again Regards

Update, when i came to prog the second board exactly the same problems, had to put in 1-8 to boot the thing up first before i could put any other addresses in. Perhaps they left the factory without default settings. Happy New Year Andy.

Hi Andy, yes i woke up in a cold sweat when i said 32 it should be 33 as you stated. I redone the settings this morning and it works a treat, you are correct concurrent blocks of eight. Still miffed about jumper 2 though and LDT's lack of clarity in their destructions. All is correct now works from TC a treat just got to setup the triggers etc. but that is for another day. Thanks and regards Pete

Yep jumper off for DCC! i will report back on addresses i shall try 32 as the first one. Regards Pete

Hi Andy i have been on it for the last couple of hours and have it working to a fashion. First things first there are 3 jumper links on the board LK1 is if you are using positive or neg as the common for the leds no probs there, :LK3 is the jumper for programming thats straight forward however LK2 is set for the type of system you are connecting to, for the ECoS this link must be removed despite what the instructions say! That was hurdle no 1 i now i can program and use it. However i still cannot get it to accept #30 but it works a treat on default addrreses of 1-4 and 5-8. Andy it works great from the ECoS touch panel and manually from Traincontrollerl i will try and find what addresses it will accept and will try your suggestion of multiples of eight. Currently its working parallel with my point motors which isn't that bad i suppose they should do in the prototypical world but i don't have enough knowledge to go interlocking yet! Regards Pete

Pete i am not using switchpilots i using LDT components for track occupancy etc. Hi Andy, basically i am following the LDT destructions to the letter see below, which i guess is like the LS150 set the first address and the remainder follow on concurrently (although you have to do both sides independantly? http://www.ldt-infocenter.com/english/downl_e.htm#LS-DEC-NS I have connected the LS DEC directlly to the ECoS track bus and linked over to the power input. Everything performs as per the destructions up to point when i operate the accessory to send the address, on a successful receipt the signal LEDS should flash faster unfortunaetly they don't. If i try to operate the signal nowt happens. I need an address of #30 so i have set a point output addressed that as 30 and switch that at the point the LS DEC is ready to receive the address. I have even tried Traincontroller to program but no joy there either, i have tried two units both have the same problem. Everything is as per the instructions the LEDS just don't flash faster to say programming was successful? the work around is to reverse polaritly of the track feed but that has no effect. Regards Pete

I am trying to get my ECoS 2 to operate with LDT light signal decoder for NS signals. All appears to be correct but i can't get LDT to accept its decoder address. I have set up one 3 way Aspect NS signal and one two way aspect. As with many decoders i am assuming (the instructions are poor)get the decoder in programming mode then switch the accessory on the ECoS the decoder the auto programs itself based on the decoder address you sent it. The decoder gets into programming mode but it appears not receive the address from the ECoS???? Anybody any experience i have tried the work arounds but to avail. Regards Pete