whrbert

Looking great mate, can't wait to come and have a running session in the future! 

18 hours ago, mallaig1983 said:

24 hours on and the clay has hardened nicely. I'll leave it a few day before painting it but Im pretty pleased with the results so far. 

 

37112 ticking over having just run round the stock before departing for Fort William.

 

I do like your platform, looks great! 

Spent a happy morning so far looking through all the threads for this layout.

I know Aberystwyth and the Cambrian lines well, your layout looks fantastic, look forward to future up dates.

Mark

Just bought a 4mm BR upper quadrent to evaluate. Worked for 5 min then expired with no movement and just the lamp lit so prpobably going back to Dapol.

Its not super detailed and has no balance weights etc so nice for toy trains or the rough and tumble of the exhibition circuit perhaps.

Why they used a blueish LED in the lamp ive no idea.

Mechanism is ingenious with a long thin motor and make to stop limit switches and 3 IC's.

Strange over-design of electronics where the sgnal toggles every time the 2 yellow wires are joined making it practically useless for working where you cant see what position its in or any sort of automation or DCC. A tortoise point motor system works fine with a motor and 2 limit switches which I think would have been cheaper an simpler.

I hear MERG are hope to make a new PCB to allow the signal to be worked by a simple ON-OFF switch or relay.

 

Overall nice signal but strange electronics a big disapointmet to me. Perhaps Bachman or Hornby will make there own versions which can be operated correctley.

Kev

I got 4 of them in 00 and 3 have stopped working, same problem, LED lights up but no movement, guess I'll just have to send em back, shame really.

Mark