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A major factor in whether you will feel anything is the skin on your hands and the condition of said skin at the time. If you are a manual worker then you are liable to have thicker skin on your hands than an office worker and this will affect the resistance of the skin. It is also true that some people have something we used to call 'rusty hands' because they had a natural tendency to be damp from sweat and the effect of them touching any clean, untreated metal surface was a rusty fingerprint on the workpiece after a period where they had touched the item. These people had to wear gloves to stop this effect. if it was warm and/or your hands were just slightly damp (perhaps you had washed them just before the shock) then you will almost certainly feel something, but if it was DC then you would not feel it constantly, only when the initial contact was made. If you felt it constantly, which is what you seem to suggest) then it was not a DC supply from a battery that you were feeling, but an AC supply which would suggest that something was connected that you thought was switched off.
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All systems require you to specify the address to undertake PoM and if you are able to read the CVs then you have decoders that have Railcom. By default Railcom operating is enabled on the z/Z21 and it also also enabled by default on decoders which have Railcom as part of the instruction set.
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Change CV29 by reading the value and if it is even add one to the value, if it is odd then subtract one.
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Does the dummy car have any load on the motor pins of the dummy car decoder?
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Choosing a decoder (small, hard wired, split chassis)
WIMorrison replied to Tomathee's topic in DCC Help & Questions
Some excellent decoders at very affordable prices from Tramfabreik. You will get what you want for ⅔ the price of the one that you quote. Decoders (tramfabriek.co.uk) I have used these for a while now, absolutely no complaints about them. They are widely used in Europe, just not known in the UK. -
This isn't a totally correct statement. All you need to do to get a programming track for a z21 (and other systems that don't have a separate programming output) is to place a DPDT switch inline with the command station output connected to the common terminals. The main track is then one position of the switch and the programming track is the other position.
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Roco Z21 app and Digikeijs base station
WIMorrison replied to Dan71D's topic in DCC Help & Questions
Roco z/Z21 app and other systems - DCC Discussion Topics (not questions) - RMweb- 1 reply
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Roco z/Z21 app and other systems
WIMorrison replied to WIMorrison's topic in DCC Discussion Topics (not questions)
The charge only applies to ‘foreign systems’. If you are using the app with a z/Z21 command station then it will have no effect and it will continue to operate fully and without restriction. -
Roco have decided to start monetising the z/Z21 app which you have previously downloaded for free from the Apple App or Google Play store. The latest version will now allow you control ONE loco with the free version or your entire current and future fleet if you pay a one off fee for the app which varies by country but would appear to be £17.99 in the UK. I also understand that feedbacks will not work when you are using a foreign system, however they will continue to operate as normal with a Roco Z/Z21. What surprises me is not that Roco has done this, it is how long it has taken them to do the same as all the other app developers who charge for their products.
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The HM7000 is cost effective for 3 or less locos, above that it is more expensive than using the Lenz digital starter set mentioned above and cheap decoders, though it will provide you with a form of sound that the alternate solution - and this is assuming that the scale being operated can be fitted with the HM7000 decoders.
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Ron do you have a link to this set? I can only find a Lenz starter set at around £350 but would have a use for this simple set - if I could find it 😀
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iTrain- how to automate fiddle yard.
WIMorrison replied to ukmodelrailway's topic in Computer Control
iTrain has a very good forum at https://berros.eu/itrain/forum where you will be able to get answers to this sort of question. When you post the question please ensure that you include your layout file. -
@Pete the Elaner Fully agree with you, plus if you buy an OEM decoder from Zimo or ESU then they have large libraries of sound files that can be downloaded, some free but mostly paid for the good projects. Plus with the right command station you are able to load the sound projects on your blank decoders yourself ;)
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ASTRAC by GE - The DCCWiki
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Not sure that the NMRA DCC ‘standard’ existed when Zero 1 was conceived 😀 just checked and NMRA published their DCC ‘standard’ in October 1993 - which was 14 years after Hornby started selling Zero 1 😏
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IIRC it was actually the advertising for Hornby Zero One that used the 'only two wires' statement 😁
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Power districts can be, and often are, areas provided with power from a different source that the command station e.g. a booster. They can also be used to bring power up sequentially when there are large capacitive loads. To say that they are mostly used in the scenario you describe is incorrect and misleading.
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It is an area that is, or can be, powered separately from the rest of the layout. It will be separated by a switch, (electronic or manual) or it could be supplied power by a totally separate feed, e.g. a booster.
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Narrow Gauge South 2024 - Eastleigh, Saturday 27th April
WIMorrison replied to PatC's topic in Exhibitions
The 009 Society Sales team has been beavering away pulling together hundreds of unique offerings at bargain prices to tempt your wallet. Amongst the 'normal' items there are many unique locos by some very well known scratch builders, huge stocks of almost all the chassis used by people to build kits and many, many kits for these chassis to fit under. From the commercial suppliers there are locos, rolling stock and kits from Fourdees, Bachmann, Heljan, Roco, Liliput, Peco - all the usual suspects in large quantities and if it is scenery and buildings you are looking for then there will be a large selection of boxed Skaledale or Scenecraft at unbeatable prices! Make sure you drop by to take advantage of many unrepeatable offers for your layouts. -
Firstly, why are you using 28 Speed Steps? You should be using 126 these days. Secondly, if you use a Zimo decoder then you can set the voltage provided to the motor independently of the setting in CV5 which allows you to tame excessively fast locos but still get a decent range of speed steps - especially using 126 speed steps ;)