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On 07/04/2024 at 10:40, Stubby47 said:

Considering this as a possible outfit for the day. 

 

Thats that then , I won't be wearing mine.

I have experienced the same problems as already listed.  The fishtails broke trying to insert them from several of the "packs" I bought.  Hunts replaced them them upon being advised of the breakages but the replacements also broke.  The Hornby couplings are more robust and thus my first choice.

Good evening RBC,

Apologies for the delay in replying.  The sound chip is an 8 pin ESU V3.5.  Speaker is a base reflex.

Thank you for asking.

Bachmann Class 37 32-379 renumbered to 37 673 used on my china clay trains.

Lightly weathered.  Buffer beam detail both ends.  EE roof grill and fan.  Sound fitted with speaker in fuel tank.

For sale at £83 including p&p ONO.

Bought my peak D163 around 1995 ish.  It has always been a good runner and was endowed with "upgrades" such as roof grill and fan, wire hand rails, roof access panel handrails fitted.  Tail lights and sound fitted.  Still works a treat.

I have pre ordered a Class 37 and now wondering whether I have done the right thing.  There appears to be many running problems with the Accurascale 37 compared to the Bachmann.  Without trolling this op I wonder if Accurascale are aware of the alleged problems and resolved them.

I think you will find Dapol fit Zimo MS or MX sound decoder to their (21 pin) locos.  The steam locos are supplied Next 18 ready.  The volume is adjusted through CV266.

Mike

Why not try the auto tune.  Full details here https://dccwiki.com/LokSound_Auto_Tune

Do you have a frog polarity switch or juicer fitted.

I would suggest that Bachmann standardise on their kit.  I have a Dynamis and the power jack has a 2.5mm pin.  The barrel is 5.5mm.

1 hour ago, woodenhead said:

I've had a response from Digitrains, the projects are set up for OO locos so that would be a Dapol Western in OO and a Heljan Hymek.

 

 

Digitrains being the vendor should you be asking them to re-blow the decoders to suit the N gauge locos you want to install the decoders.

What's the difference between a standard decoder and a budget decoder.

As a matter of interest the original advertised price was £310 and is now reduced to £310.

On 03/04/2023 at 11:16, bourneagain said:

I`ve just booked my ticket to the York Model Railway Show, who are now using the same company Eventbrite, as Warners are using for their 3 shows, but the one big difference is that with the YMRS, there is no need to specify a particular visiting day. Tickets are valid for any one of the 3 days: Sat, Sun or Mon.

It would save a lot of hassle if Warners would adopt the same arrangement for their shows.    

I believe that as long as one advises COP 24hrs before one can attend any day.

48 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

What's normal people Mike?

Is normality not like beauty, its in the eye of the beholder.

On 08/06/2022 at 00:26, jools1959 said:

One of Bachmann’s earliest model’s with the split chassis.  Difficult to DCC and even harder to add sound, hence the newer chassis 

I fitted sound to my old Bachmann "Orion" in addition to improve the running qualities, i.e. stalling, I fitted a Hornby drawbar and tender chassis under the Bachmann tender body.  The attached photo might help you.

Mike

Which model are you attempting to upgrade?

13 hours ago, AyJay said:

Worth considering tariff, I’ll give it a look. Clan line has a 2 wire connection, a central pin and conductive base. But think I eliminated that as a possibility by running loco without tender. I am wondering if I could have disturbed the driving wheel pickups when I cleaned and lubed it. Well I’ll look tomorrow.

True but the negative pick-up is through the chassis.

Your problem appears to be similar to one I experienced with 2 Hornby locos, a Black Five and an 8F from the early 2000's.  Both have the tender pick-up and DCC ready.  The negative pickup is through the chassis.  Initially the fault pointed to the sound decoder having upgraded from the V3.5 to a D&H.  However the stopping did not cause stopping or shorting with other locos running.  I modified both loco's eliminating the pick-up through chassis.  The 8F was further modified to produce a wired pick up from the tender and it now runs without stalling.  The Black 5 on the other hand still has the original tender loco arrangement and tends still to stall randomly on curves and particularly on points.

I visited the show on Saturday with a friend, we were both amazed at the quality of the layout and the running of the trains.  There was never a non run time throughout.   I'm equally amazed at the criticism shown here.  We spent at least 3 hours at the layout and observed one derailment, strange things happen on models but with this one it was akin to being lineside.

Yes this decoder can be programmed using the Lokprogrammer.  The decoder is manufactured by ESU.

Hello 1056WesternSultan,

You may find this installation of use.  It uses the speaker as supplied fitted in the fuel tank.

Mike.

From you pictures it appears there is a mix of straight and stepped couplings  You can check which is correct for your layout by offering them to the loco.