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    OO gauge, Southern, Sound chips, DCC,1950's and 60's steam and early green diesels

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  1. You may find that it is an automatic file. You will find it in the random files section. I assume you have your own file to cover the demand. ESU used to have a time delay on theirs which would play if the loco was stationary for more than 10 seconds. I have to advise you that my knowledge stops with V3.5 but I think the feature was much admired and has probably survived as a result. You will need a Lokprogrammer to adapt any files.
  2. Safety is paramount. A short crossover would almost certainly be operated by one lever to prevent a train being directed via a properly set point onto an incorrectly set one. I am also fairly sure that facing point locks were used where there was the slightest chance of a train taking a point when the blades were facing the oncoming train. I think there was a speed limit on points not fitted with operational locks so slow shunting moves on such unfitted points were Ok. I think there was also a prohibition if any passenger servies were involved. The best bit is that all modelling of point rodding is purely cosmetic anyway and is small enough to be purely an addition in any event.
  3. Gaugemaster do a wallwart that will do the job.
  4. I think the problem is related to the power source you are using. CD units need a lot of power to recharge in an acceptable time and indeed to charge the capacitors at all. There should be an output power rating on the Hornby controller's label.
  5. I am looking at the main power source on the right, the one with the knob on top. What voltage is that? I was under the impression that a CDU needs 16volts AC but I don't use them myself.
  6. I will be unable to make it this year. I have a heavy date with a certain Joe Satriani in Portsmouth on that evening.
  7. You cannot really have too much in respect of Ohm rating. Extra Ohms REDUCES the load on the sound output. It is too few Ohms that blows decoders. Extra Ohms reduces volume. Wiring in series makes a total Ohm rating of the addition of individual Ohm rating. Wiring in parallel gives half the sum of Ohm ratings. This last only works if both speakers are identical otherwise the equation is complex. Either way wiring in series is OK but reduces volume whereas wiring in parallel could damage the output transformer.
  8. Although ESU will repair/ replace sound decoders and are generous, they cannot guarantee the fate of any sounds on the decoder you send them.
  9. To get coasting on any sound decoder requires access to the sound project file. I imagine it COULD be done by changing CV values but delving that deep into a decoder without a sound project file to look at on screen giving a comprehensive GUI...........I wouldn't risk it. If it is a V3.5 then any sound projects out there are now more or less unused at compiler level and very few had coasting in them anyway. I did manage to load a 3.5 Micro with a self written sound project which had a lot of coasting built into it. It needed developing. It was a diesel hydraulic template and it was in a Bachmann Class 3 diesel shunter so of little value to a steam loco but the principle is the same by adjusting threshholds between each sound file. The modern V4s are very much better at these sound flows and there are many different sound projects out there now. To be honest I would hesitate to plunge into a sound decoder these days and the 3.5 Micro failed some time ago and has been replaced with a silent decoder.
  10. Disconnected ones because parts are difficult to get?
  11. Not too bad! Main baseboard made, most of the track laid including six points. Currently cutting out a bit of sea on a dockside plus a drainage trench. Measuring 64 times and cutting once; I am determined not to make any unsalvageable mistakes which will destroy my reason to carry on and waste all that has been done. Only one lesson so far learned to pass on. Don't use Gorilla glue; it seems to foam and cause unsightly glue mess which is then difficult to remove/disguise. I must admit that progress can sometimes be glacial. This is mainly due to my health than loss of mojo.
  12. I seem to remember a large and mainly vitriolic thread about DCC sound at exhibitions. The conclusions reached ( if any ) were largely the same as on this one. We are modelling a transport method which involves a lot of noise much of it intrusive. Ask any preserved railway the major complaints source(s) and they will be noise and soot. In some ways this is from houses that were built long after the railway. I think all complaints about 'noisy' railways even model ones, might fall under the same heading for rebuttal Whoever heard of a totally silent steam engine or indeed diesel although great strides have been made with modern traction. Some of the more modern sound decoders are capable of a more realistic 'performance' than older ones were. The biggest argument with exhibitions is the space above the layout being so large, the temptation to wick up the volume is there. I would challenge you to stand next to an idling heritage diesel with a clapped silencer for more than a few seconds without wanting to absent yourself from the source. The same applies to sound decoders. One wonders whether the complainants on this thread and any others like it, also abhor 'real' railways as much. I believe one post is about lighting interfering with DCC signals and that was an old chestnut with the early Bachmann Dynamis which had an IR link between throttle and command station. Apparently it was reported that neon lighting was capable of interfering with that link. Long time ago. It is impossible to run only two wires to a DCC layout that involves points with the potential of dead rails between two insulated rail joiners but it is a fact that all track wiring is capable of being joined together and led into the command station by only two wires that are not joined together anywhere on the layout. As to the layout being out for days at an exhibition, I follow the viewpoint that the operators were equally disappointed but were unable to fix the problem with resources to hand. Poor planning rather than a generic fault methinks. The biggest problem that DCC seems to breed is that large layouts ( particularly with multiple sound locos ) requires a lot of power and that can only be brought to the layout by an expensive command station or use of multiple slave command stations wired to separate power districts. There are advantages to DCC like being able to run two locos on the same track and more realistic driving to a more responsive throttle but it is accepted that there are fewer disadvantages and I for one was attracted to DCC sound right from the get go. I still have most of my layout motive power with sound and the one that isn't has a good quality standard chip in it.
  13. Just to add my congratulations to the stack. A well deserved pat on the back for Andy. I have been on here for around..............well stap me vitals I cannot recall when I actually started with RMWeb! I have never been one for looking back, that was then this is now and I live for the now these days and RMWeb is and always will be a part of that.
  14. Can I complain that the links for page 2 don't work?
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