roy h

Thanks will have a play in the next few days after downloading to the pc. 

On 15/10/2019 at 16:40, RAF96 said:

 

Complete and utter tosh these days .... if a decoder or controller is NMRA compliant (not necessarily warranted as not every maker has theirs tested due to cost for the privilege) then they should play happy together. You do get the odd clash of wills, but in general most all work reasonably well together.

 

To program a T-T smart screen at home you need a controller that will allow easy control of F0 to F9 as these are the keys repeatedly used to program in messages and send how you want to control those messages to the smart screen. It is fairly time consuming when writing up to ten messages and defining how they will be displayed.

 

Fortunately a friend of mine has developed an interface to write messages and send controls to the screen more easily via a PC, but this only works with Hornby Elite or eLink controllers at present as they can connect by USB to a PC. In essence you type in your message, press go and the ‘app’ does all the F-key presses for you, much faster than you could do it by hand and saving wear and tear on the controller key pad. At some stage this will be linked to from the smart screen product page for download.

Can I ask did the link for the software for fast programming get added to the homepage or is it available elsewhere thanks 

Was a welcome surprise and not to bad on price 👍

There back in stock at £34 ish each. 👍

On 30/12/2022 at 14:40, roy h said:

Yes they are just had a chat with them on the phone to double check what’s going on and the will check with there Hornby rep as been going there for years so at this moment I’ll take it as a genuine mistake. Thanks for the help gents 

I have Got it all sorted. It was due to the wagons coming in over Xmas and new year. 

21 minutes ago, TomScrut said:

 

And what are they charging? If it's £50 then that's out of order in my opinion.

Yes they are just had a chat with them on the phone to double check what’s going on and the will check with there Hornby rep as been going there for years so at this moment I’ll take it as a genuine mistake. Thanks for the help gents 

Thanks Tom.

It’s the new ones R60177. the shop I got them is is splitting them into singles did wonder why it said pack of 2 on the box when I got home and the looked here for info on the other wagon numbers available 
 

Can anybody confirm that the Drax wagons is two wagons per pack. As have picked up some today and they are single ?

Not impressed to say the least.
Looks good out of the box.  start the running in ready for doc to be fitted and it wobbles clunks over point work then throws its bogie out as clip is snapped back.  
Why use such a old way of mouting the boiges and on a model close to £200 

Only arrived today and did 1 1/2 laps at least they allow a 21 pin decoder now 

cravensdmufan reset did not work checked cv setting first all was ok so tried a reset but still no joy. looks like its going for a trip back.  thanks for the help.

On 13/04/2020 at 14:41, cravensdmufan said:

Yes it does - I thought I had blown the chip, so I did a CV8 to 8.

 

The pantograph servo still didn't operate.  So I checked the CVs against the default settings on the small card that's supplied with the decoder.

 

I had to change CV181 back to 6.  All was OK after that.  It had reset itself to 0, hence pantograph didn't work.  Phew!  

cheers was thinking the same tonight just stoped working. then thinkinh whats gone pop but everything else ok so off to try this fix first.

here is my  little French thing. Had this one for 13 years now and have had many happy hours flying round/ working on it. its still a 1.4 but has had a lot of work to the engine brakes ect. biggest upgrade was fitting EFI using a adaptronic ecu to control it all. last time it was mapped was a safe 215BHP @25 psi.  Always had a Renault of some sort and have a 2000 plate clio and a megane sport but these cars from the 80/90's just love them

loving the progress

the servo looks like a Normal linier servo is used. have had a play with a few of these in the past on other projects and found them to be a bit noisy then but great for small spaces and good distance of travel.

https://hobbyking.com/en_us/hobbyking-ultra-micro-servo-1-7g-for-3d-flight-left.html

i have found out why mine sounded rough on running at speed. Found two very small bits of plastic stuck to the wheel in the same place on each side of a axle. now all is ok and running fine

20 hours ago, rembrow said:

Hi

Received my 90 today, BR Inter city Financial Times and have the same problem with one bogie. My problem is with the bogie at the pantograph end. Have arranged to return mine to retailer.

Point of interest, the fault seems to be with the mounting of the bogie gear tower, however the drive shaft is still located and drives both sets of wheels of the affected bogie, so a test run won't necessarily identify if you have an affected model, unless you check the bogies for sideways and forward backward movement that shouldn't  be there if the bogie was properly in a central pivot point. 

i have finally got round to running mine in today but after i increased the speed from running in it sounds as though it has wheel flats runs well but dose not sound 100% right. 

Just tried and got a hosting Company page. 

looking at my preorder i can not see a special decoder i can add to it. so are retailers aware of this or will they find out when the boxes arrive. 

next time it dose this check the connections on the network cable between both boards. also just unplug them to see if they boot up on there own so to speak. had a similar issue where the some times all was well and other times not. i  traced it to faulty terminal crimp on the cable in the end.

drop dave a email. thing about this product is the support from dave. im running quite a lot of megapoint boards and if i have had one of them moments when setting things up dave has helped me out.

What a waste of a shed....

my thoughts as well. when i was younger my uncle used to take us round here in 87 or 88 all trains were long gone but all the track and gantry's were still there was fascinated as a 8/9 year old boy  just a shame its now all gone

andy

 thanks for all your hard working getting things sorted. but just to let you know i still get a message from norton it has blocked a attack every time i click on a page.

have been working at the new road site in stockport and was able to take a quick pick showing a small section of what is left of the tunnel under the viaduct. shame i have not been on site sooner. from what i could see this was close to the bottom level of the tunnel.

i noticed in the video of the test run you can see the light for the monitoring/recording equipment on the roof. sometimes see a 390 going over the viaduct in Stockport with the light shining on the roof and wondered what the light was for first time i saw it. would love to see some of the footage

Try SPDT Sub-miniature Microswitch SPDT ON-ON. Actuatorlength 14mm. Rated at 125V 3A...

 

 Has anyone got around to using a MegaPoint controller for double slips and 3 way points and not using a route controller how has it been achieved?

search you tube for Dave Fenton (megapoints) he has some good videos on there including one for the double slip. also just had all my boards upgraded. Top service from Dave as usual