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Yes, totally agree with that. We know too much about aerodynamics now too, with wind tunnel testing and CFD and all sorts of advanced modelling. To say to people "forget what you know" would be virtually impossible. Unless you standardise the car, but that would be rubbish. How long did A1 GP last!? I think Brawn is right about trying to design in the ability for cars to follow better, rather than an all out "no more aero".

Yes, that's exactly what Brawn's saying. It's obvious really, but that was an interesting and very visible manifestation of it. I'm certainly intrigued to see how the two RB drivers are in Spain. Obviously knuckles have been rapped, but they're still a team without a clear leader, and on any one day either one of them can be the team leader, which makes team orders harder to issue, and it seems Horner isn't rushing to do that anyway. I'm not sure MV will get to a place where drivers are just letting him through, at the end of the day if he keeps hitting other drivers (well aware he didn't do the hitting in Baku) then I think it's more likely he'll just further his reputation for being a bit of a loose cannon and being a great talent who never quite made it. Senna and Schumacher had better palmarès by the time they got that reputation I'd say, and gained notoriety for some incidents that had a decisive impact on specific races and championships, more a calculated risk of crashing - rather than just a foolhardy move which didn't stick, which seems more what Max is up to presently!

Yes, interesting insight. I thought it was interesting how quickly (ie instantly) Ricciardo locked the fronts when he did brake prior to the collision. I'm sure partly because it was a slightly panicked stab at the pedal, but even so, there was essentially no slowing before they locked.

Mmm, yes. I’m sort of interested, I think. Maybe.

Had exactly the same thought about the pans, they look spot on. Best British N gauge pan I've seen, and I'm also tempted to butcher a couple onto 350s!

Agreed, that is a useless contribution, I don't envy Bottas's position, and it feels doubly cruel that he's lost two races through no fault of his own, particularly when he seems to have some pretty vocal critics. Classy of Hamilton to console him before taking to the podium.

Alonso. Fernando = Fred. Bit tenuous. Great race I thought. Gutted for Bottas. Both drivers need to take responsibility for the Red Bull incident - Verstappen made two decisive moves in the braking zone, but Daniel was all in and reliant on Verstappen doing something for his move to come off, which is a very dangerous gamble, particularly given MV's own gung ho attitude to cannoning into other drivers overtaking. Amused by Grosjean spearing it into the wall under SC. I find him irritating, he's very moany. Even DC commented that he's a very emotional chap, and doesn't come across cool and composed on the radio. Great drive by Leclerc, weird how Baku seems to throw up odd results - Perez, Leclerc, Stroll last year. Hopefully Spain will be a good race particularly if some of the cars get new bits!

I really like what you've done around the pantograph well, that enhances it greatly. Must confess I'm not seeing the green deposits from that video, but I'm sure you're right! I think I'll give mine a fine dusting with the powders on the roof and under frame but little else!

We're getting there now - you're looking for people to help you make it a more viable solution? I'm still really struggling with how you'd operate it. I still don't understand what you mean about buttons on a webpage. I have an iPhone in my hand. I can't just add buttons into a browser window. Do I need to create a web page with a schematic of my layout? Where's that hosted? Megapoints boards have 12 outputs, but you can easily run more - crossovers etc run off one output. I assume the same is true here. Any reason you're not naming them? You're telling people your system is "much cheaper", but not than what. If it's not a commercial venture there shouldn't be any issues. Or do you mean Peco Smart Switch (which is hideously overpriced)? Sorry for being a bit blunt, but I don't understand why you're being so cagey. Your first post implied you had a fully functioning solution, now you're saying you need people to help get it working - that's fine, but call the thread "help with homemade servo point control", no need for the clickbait. Using an Arduino would allow JMRI integration (as CMRI), with established libraries, so may be better than RPi? Must admit I've never used the latter, so can't comment specifically. I realise they're not the same, so changing hardware is not trivial.

Using which app on your phone? You can't just stick some buttons on an iPhone and go. Does it interface with existing software like JMRI/iTrain/TrainController? I don't have questions to ask really, I don't know what I'm asking about. You either have something you can post about, or you don't. Personally for me, £60 for 16 points isn't sufficiently cheaper than Megapoints, which is a known quantity. Is this a commercial endeavour, or are you just showing people how to DIY?

Hard to tell. You’re not really talking about what you’re actually doing... it’s all spectacularly vague. What are those prices for? One pair of points? 50 pairs? What is it better and cheaper than?

Dinner ladies yes, for sure. "Lunch ladies" sounds very American. But I'd never particularly considered the fact that dinner ladies served lunch, not dinner. You also had school dinners, at lunch time. I'm starting to fear the northerners are right.

Always used to confuse me when I was in our Manchester office that. "Are you going out for your dinner?" *checks watch* "err, no, it's 12:30" *adopts confused look*. Crazy northerners!

Fair enough, I have two older boards and two newer ones. The old ones (with no such functionality) ‘chatter’ quite a lot, the servos don’t move to any perceptible degree, so it’s just annoying, but the new ones don’t at all, they’re silent. I don’t profess to be an expert; remove power, disabling pulses whatever, they’re far quieter in use (or rather not in use) than the older boards.

The fine from the FCA on this is going to be monumental. RBS got £42 million for a shorter outage with none of the massive data breaches that have accompanied the TSB one. Hope it's resolved soon for all impacted.

Doesn't have to. There are other threads, this one could just stay dormant until there is news... Or at least talk about class 50 preservation. I wouldn't know a Hunslet Austerity if I walked into one.

Correct, due to plug and play it should know that you have specific monitors, you’re not making it a primary port, it’s the actual monitor.

Have you defined one as the primary monitor? You should have a setting to "make this my main display" or something like that within the display settings.

Have dabbled in running at various times over the last 10 years. I wish I liked it, but I hate it. I’m no good at it, which means I don’t want to train to get quicker (I’d rather ride a bike), so I never get better, so I hate it, repeat ad infinitum! It’s just so uncomfortable! I never seem to get into a rhythm where I think “I could just do this all day”!

The newest MegaPoints boards remove power to the servos 1 second (IIRC) after they move, so no twitching. Seems to work well. The DCC modules are £30, and the multi panel board (which interfaces with the DCC module) is £84, ergo if you're more than 3 boards, and want DCC, then you should get the multi panel processor. 3 or fewer boards and you may as well buy a DCC module for each board. I run multiple servos off a single output for things like crossovers which works well. Again the newest boards have a higher output to cope with such activities. You can reach a point with the older ones where they get overloaded and shut down. No comment on the Tam Valley ones though I'm afraid.

Yes, that's always existed. If you read the post though, it appears there may be a new option whereby you have an auction with an option for best offers. Not a buy now. Although I do wonder if it was simply an auction with a buy now (or best offer), where the buy now option disappears when there are bids IIRC. As said, would be interesting to see the item adb968008

Great race I thought! Real 'hero to zero' for Gasly, poor qualifying and then stuffing it into his team mate at the hairpin! Max is trying far too hard to prove himself still. He needs to calm down and stop trying for insane manoeuvres in desperation. It feels a bit like he spent a couple of years making "incredible" overtaking moves, he's still trying it but they're no longer working! Hamilton a bit off the boil, strong driving by Bottas. Great stuff.

I'm confused, Hayfield you seem to be talking about "buy now or best offer", but are talking as if you mean the feature adb968008 has mentioned? This seems to be a formalisation of the "how much to end the auction early?", where it becomes "what's your offer?", which is not the same as the formal "buy now or best offer".

No buffers = HST for Dapol, they’ve not modelled any of the other differences The end doors seem to be a random colour depending on who painted the coach from what I can tell, no homogeny at all.

That always bemused me too! An enormous layout of a slightly esoteric prototype in a different country. Still... who of us wouldn’t want to build our dream layout as a full time job paid for by someone else?! I wonder if his funders knew of his attitudes. Biting the hand that feeds...