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really? doesn't look anything like the Lima one to me

I stich the smd to the axle and the following day I 'paint' on the conductive paint with a cocktail stick and within 24hrs the paint has dried and the wheelset is working correctly - I am working in H0e which means N-Gauge wheelsets and it is fairly easy, would be a doddle in 00 wheelsets

I find that the paint needs 24hrs to become conductive.

I had a neighbour a few years ago beside my last house who played with old bangers and they ruined the digital TV signal when he was running them. It was very difficult getting him to understand or accept the problem as he claimed not to have a television

the switch you refer to is for setting the address of the motor, it has nothing to do with voltage

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Look at MTB MP1 or MP5 motors, easy to switch, very easy to adjust and virtually silent.

Does it fire ‘on the bench’ i.e. with a power source connected directly to the motor? it could simply be a fault motor and the way to fault find is to remove all components and simplify to prove that the end point works. The gradually add bits back into the circuit until it stops working, that then identifies the fault.

Long Wave, Medium Wave and FM radio are all still analogue and don't like the electrical whine of model railway (or any other) unsuppressed motors

Look at using something cheaper then :), BD20 are not the cheapest of solutions out there (unless you already have them )

One more thing - if you have an actual lamp at the end of the train, or perhaps coach lighting then the wagon/coach with the light fitted will not need a resistive axle because the lights should draw enough current to trigger the detection. If you have decoders fitted in coaches or wagons to operate couplings, doors, lights, etc then the same applies - resistive axles are only needed for 'dead' stock which is becoming increasingly rare these days

No problem, it was a pleasure

That is the Toe to me - if you look a foot sideways and a turnout sideways then you will see the similarity and why the sharp end is the toe and the divergent end is the heel You would appear to have cut the power that would feed the offending rails as they are not getting the power from the blades now and you haven't (yet) connected them to the frog - that would be my view

You absolutely certain on which links you cut on the bottom of the turnouts? It seems to me that the power is not going from the frog to the rails that you point to.

Yesterday I was unable to change any turnouts using the Maus, it took ages to switch the screen from Loco to Turnouts and when it got to the Turnout screen it was blank - I notice that the battery was flat ergo I changed the batteries, unfortunately to have the same result I thought I would reflash the firmware but the upgrade routine refused to see the Maus at all and in desperation I entered the recovery mode (R1-04) and this works!!. I therefore reinstalled the Maus update (v1.08) and then installed the Radio software (v1.05) and then it failed again, exactly the same issue. I have been using these software versions for a long time (I can't recall when it came out, probably a couple of years ago) and I haven't had an issue at all. Just to prove that I hadn't made a cockup I repeated the exercise only to have the same result, which I know is the definition of stupidity but then again it was work the try. I have emailed Roco but their form is very limited on what you can say (500 characters) therefore I need them to pick up the ticket before I can give them all the detail, however has anyone else seen this problem where the Maus will only work in the Recovery Mode (It does appear to work correctly). Any Ideas?

It depends on what the trigger current is for your detectors. As an example a DR4088 will trigger at 1mA which is a resistor of ~15k at 15v track voltage. a 10k would trip a DR4088 nicely. A DR5088RC needs around 10mA to trip and show occupancy which therefore means a resistor of 1k5 at the same track voltage. If you have several resistors of the same value then simply put them in parallel until the occupancy triggers and that will show you what the trip current is 10k+10k=5k 10k+10k+10k=3.3k 10k+10k+10k+10k=2.5k etc... EDIT - once you have worked out the value then buy resistors of the right value like these https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SMD-SMT-0603-Chip-Resistor-0R-1M-Ohm-Range/131760464157?hash=item1ead89211d:g:ipwAAOSwQjNW8qkm which you superglue to the axle at the insulated end and use conductive paint https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Electric-Glue-Wire-Silver-Conductive-Needle-0-3ML-1-0ML-Paste-Paint-PCB-Repair/333582960676?hash=item4dab180824:g:YZIAAOSwMLNeoqa~ to paint onto the axle and wheel flange from the conductive pads at the end of the resistor works a treat for me

Now that provided a word that I had to google and find its meaning!

How do you keep the levers synchronised with TC?

As you are going down the route of S88 feedbacks and already have an ECoS why not build an electronic switch panel using software such as iTrain to achieve what you want? I suggest it will be cheaper than using DCC Concepts components (and easy to alter at a later date)

I still fail to see the point you are trying to make - this will light orange on a DCC track and red or green (depending on track polarity) on a DC layout. cant get much simpler than that.

Don't see you point, it is actually quite a useful little tool.

I cant help you with the first issue - seems bizarre however if you have cleared the S88 feedbacks in the DR5000 mapping just to ensure you aren't try to use S88 address from Loconet? IIRC the default DR5000 setup uses the first 32 feedbacks for S88 - simply set the number of S88 modules to zero to get rid of this (or start you feedback numbering after the DR5000 S88 block. The DR4088 will show occupancy at 1mA (sometimes less and there are 2 ways to cure this a) make sure you haven't used thin wire as this acts like an aerial and will 'collect' current from anything nearby. b) make sure that the isolation gaps to the other blacks are still gaps c) put a shunt resistor of 1k between the C terminal and the offending feedback, if that doesn't work then try 2 x 1k in parallel or 1 x 0.5k ( 2 x 1k in parallel is same value)

All’s well that end well then :)

Nigel - this is working BUT you need to disable DC running in CV29 before you try it and set CV144=0 as it falls over if you don't as unlike the standard update procedure it doesn't appear to check CV144. I have to reprogramme a couple of times to recover it as CV29=14, changed it to 10 and then all OK and changed it back to 14

This would suggest to me that you have a current draw in each of the sections that you are switching on and that the command station isn't able to provide the power being drawn by the additional sections or this might also be caused by using to small a CSA wire for the bus - might even be a mixture of both.