Orange Alco

Anything missing? This must now be a list of almost everything that does not yet have a model made of it

Every River - Runrig

A quality piece for the discerning Portuguese modeller! I have one of these 2600s - it is possibly the second worst model of a Portuguese loco? The worst was that Lima Aussie Class 44 masquerading as a 1960

Well, they are being VERY generous as the Hornby warranty for locomotives is 6 months for moving parts and 1 year for electrical parts. (Okay, so is a motor electrical or moving...) Presumably that means no warranty for a block of metal

Recently i have had a sweep of my stock & fitted decoders to most of the fleet that is for Austwick. The Trainsave & Gaugemaster decoders are faultless & work like a dream but the Bachmann decoders are a different story.

I have about 5 Bachmann decoders fitted to a selection of steam locos. I've just fitted a crab & a 3f with a 8 & a 21 pin Bachmann decoder & both locos are running exceptionally erratic . The 21 pin decoder has just come out of a class 150 dmu & that ran fin but as soon as i fit it in the 3f it judders badly & will go very slow then as soon as you touch the speed control to slow it down it jerks but with speed. The crab has been doing the exact same thing can anyone tell me what i'm doing wrong to them??

 

 

Cheers

 

Simon

You need to set Back emf CVs 54 and 55 to be something appropriate to the motor you are controlling, the defaults are fine for larger motors but not smaller lighter ones which is why it would have been okay in the Class 150. The Bachmann DCC Onboard steamers usually come with with CV54 at 12 and CV55 at 60 so try that for the 3F. IIRC the decoder paperwork says thase have to be altered otherwise there may be poor slow speed running..