paulco

Hello All, Have collected my 05 today, very impressed with slow running, but quite noisey at half throttle when in reverse, - on DC at moment and running in, will it get better? or should I take it back. There are six lights, three on front and back, one lights up in foreward and one lights up in reverse, none of the centre lights seem to come on, is this normal. Many thanks for help. Paul

Many thanks for replies all. Thanks for info Ian - just took a look at your "build a train set" link, it is superb and so well meant, you have a knack of putting things across whilst also gathering info yourself, - a skill. All the best Paul

Many thanks Ian, Very good of you. Looking for a quick reply if possible - Bachmann recommend running the earl on second radius, which I am doing at moment, would it run on first radius with points between the two. Thanks again. Paul

Hello All, I have recently bought a NCE power cab and are very pleased with it. Only have a Bachmann earl as yet and just running it on a 6 x 4 board at the moment, the earl runs superbly, both on DC and DCC other than it runs slower on my DCC setup, I have checked cv29 and cv5 to make sure they are at max current voltage which I think they are, my Bachmann dc controller was run by a 16v ac adapter but the NCE has come with a 13.8v dc adapter as supplied by Diggitrains, my bus and dropper wiring has been done with 16/0.2 3amp peco wire as recommended by my local model shop, is the adapter or wire too smaller than should be, also if I upgrade at some time to a 5 amp setup will the 3 amp peco wire be too thin. Sorry to be asking what is probably a naive question, thanks for your help. Paul