CotBob

This is a bit of a request for aid from anyone who has fitted a Digitrax DZ126 to their small England. I am having great difficulty in setting the CV's to give smooth running at low speed it judders a lot when run slowly, without a rather annoying ticking sound from the motor. This noise which doesn't change in frequency as speed changes I can get rid of but only at the expense of the slow speed juddering coming back. Any advice on the CV's around back EMF would be really helpful :-)

Once the weather is warm enough, and it's summer, I will have to drag the old (brand new) GSX1000GT up there. Looking back at that previous sentence I realise that there is one of the reasons modelling is so slow hereabouts, why did I spend so much on a fair weather machine?

My main struggle is stopping the cats try to catch them when running, they loose interest once the locos stop. Sorry not too helpful I know.

A collection of quarry Hunslet locos small and less small

Good luck with the new arrival. Nesta now runs pretty well both ways after a slight tight spot going backwards has been run in, or out as it were. Dorothea, who is still DC only has also a slight tight spot in reverse but she is being run in now so fingers crossed.

I am not sure that works, I didn't try Nesta on DC until after I had put the chip in and run it for a while. It was definitely not as smooth on DC as DCC and it has improved more as it has run. It had an issue going backwards at first but it has eased a lot as it has run,

Interestingly the only thing I changed was 57 to limit the top speed I set it to 50 which seems reasonable. I gather it allows full resolution while limiting the top speed.

I don't want to trigger the inner rivet counter, but Nesta should have a free standing handbrake column. I am fine with it though.

While we are on the subject of baseboards, has anybody used Model Railway Solutions boards? I could build them myself, but know the limit of my skill in cutting and assembling bits of wood, and want the single board I need to be flat and level.

They sent Charles by DPD, so maybe there is a chance that will happen again. I guess there are potentially three times as many orders to fulfil just in 009 compared to when he was sent so it may take a bit longer to process.

Fingers crossed, I am still waiting on Rails shipping my pair Dorothea and Nesta in spite of them taking the money yesterday. Those two do look marvellous together.

My two, Nesta and Dorothea, are on their way too, hopefully. If Rails use the same method with them as Charles it will be DPD next day. Now to work out which one to chip and which will have to wait more money and more stock in places.

To the immense relief of nobody but myself, and whoever it was that had a reasonably cheap Piko Smartcontrol light in stock, the new control unit runs all my problematic loco's, both of them, perfectly with the added bonus that I can assign sometimes helpful symbols to function buttons so I don't forget which does what.

I am most sorry for having done that to you ,no inner pain was intended with my post ;-)

It would be marvellous to see a section of the Penhryn system. Peco include a possible layout for Port Penhryn in the 009 track plans book. I don't have space, and really want a roundy roundy layout rather than an endy endy one so will have to try inspire someone else to do it.

I have been heavily influenced by a series of images and posts on Facebook like this: This is the type layout I will be building, once I have finished paying for all the locos I have on order this Christmas.

Just to keep momentum on this thread here are Charleses large and small.

Could this lead to new Chronicles?

One would think so, but maybe there are some differences in the projects that are not obvious to casual, and mostly incompetent, observers like myself.

I have now come across another theory to explain the behaviour. It could be to do with the fact that the DCS51 uses a potentiometer to control speed rather than a digital device. If this is the case it would explain the erratic nature of the fluctuations in speed, at some settings it drops only one or two steps in others it is clearly way more, it also varies with time. So if a setting is left alone it can go from reasonably acceptable to not without any changes of control.

My video is not so well produced, in fact it could be said to be a bit raw. It is, as it says of Charles not working well on a Digitrax DCS51 as with my Livingston Thompson it does not maintain speed consistently. This clip actually doesn't show the issue at it's worst I may upload another of it trying to crawl later. The speed fluctuations that are shown are a result of some problem with the Bachmann programmed chip and the control. It is flawless on a Lenz system and only effects Bachmann locos with their projects the two Baldwins I have with Digitrains projects are fine, so go figure. Er enjoy?

You are correct, though some of those will be hard to notice. For many name and works plates would be enough, not accurate, I grant you, but good enough for many people.

I was talking tonight to someone who had ordered Alice with the intention of converting it to Rough Pup, as he works in Tywyn he has access to the original to build from. Within reason most of the domeless locos could be made from it. Though there were frame differences with later ones like Alice as modelled there and Rough Pup to a casual observer they are not too different.

I spoke to them after the website update, but from what Sawyer Models said later that may have changed, or been hedging so as not to disappoint. My bank is looking shaky just now!

I spoke to them earlier to confirm the existence of my sound fitted Charles and they said early in the new year for Nesta and Dorothea, my two quarry locos.