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

Yes everything is fine.

 

The loco will run slower using the PowerCab.

If I swap from PowerCab to Hornby Select the loco runs faster with the Hornby Select as the controller gives more power to the track.

 

You can't just use a bigger power supply with the controllers, the internal short circuit protection is designed to work at the recommended input voltage/current so don't just put a bigger one on.

 

The wiring 16/0.2 is OK for short dropper lengths, may have been wise to use larger cable size for the bus, if looking to the future going to 5amps.

depends on the size of layout, if you are sticking with a 6x4 board you shouldn't need to go to 5amps, the PowerCab will run 4 locos including one sound.

If you do go to 5amps, you will need to split the layout into sections and you can probably say that each section won't be big enough to have enough stock on to be above 5amps.

 

It's easy to check with the PowerCab, Press the following buttons:-

 

PROG/ESC - 6 Screen will show "SET CAB PARAMS" press ENTER

 

Screen shows "SHOW TRK CURRENT? 1=Y" press 1

 

Press PROG/ESC to return to main display, you will now be able to see what the current is for all the locos you run.

 

If you do any CV programming or just go into the program mode, the screen will default again which is not the track current so you will need to follow the above procedure to show the track current again.

 

It should give a good indication of what each loco draws at standstill and running so you can work out total locos that can run, each one will be probably a little different with those with sound/lights drawing a bit more.

 

Cheers

 

Ian

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