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Many new locos still have these fitted and in the same way that you show in your picture. I have just fitted a decoder into one of these and it has them fitted. These locos come DCC ready and with all wiring for sound included, all you need is a decoder and a speaker. If you loco was DCC Ready or even DCC Fitted then I suggest that you leave them where they are as the OEM clearly designed the loco to work with them

Andy Bit like the Traincontroller v anything else debate Iain

I hope you mean a councillor

https://www.dcctrainautomation.co.uk/zimo-mx635p22-high-power-decoder-plux-22.html

Many decoders - including Zimo - by default support the use of F4 for direct control I.e switches off any acceleration and deceleration set in the decoder and F3 for shunting mode which reduces the top speed to enable finer control for shunting. these functions are often remapped by people for lighting and sounds though

Ordered from DigiTrains - they seem to have the UK stock of them! Here tomorrow (I hope :))

Have some posts been deleted? That above comments don't make sense as the post referred to cannot be found - at least not by me

perhaps bad connections - but if your length of track is 1m then 3m is too long anyway, but if the length of track is 150mm then 450mm should work.

Ron i don’t think that the original premise of the post has been asked before, but even if it had that would have made no difference because the search function doesn’t work from a mobile phone

Dare I suggest that the lack of another stock number is as simple as purchasing thinking that one 21 pin is the same as the next 21 pin and because they could get one a few cents cheaper they changed the supply line and simply kept the number as they are 'functionally' the same and it made stock keeping simpler (and cheaper)?. It does result in a modicum of disdain for the customer but Bachmann are not the first to change a supplier without telling the end customer - and they wont be the last

Thanks - I will call them in the morning, hopefully they will do 1st class postage as I need it for Saturday

I wonder if anyone knows whether the 21 pin Bachmann 36-557 is actually a rebadged Zimo MX638D? I know a lot of Bachmann decoders are simply re-badged (you can see the tiny Zimo badge on the Bachmann box ) and as I cant get hold of a MX638D at the moment I was looking to see if this will work for me TIA

Perhaps it is just a larger market where they sell more items therefore recoup the tooling costs more easily and can therefore have a lower price?

yep, a way that sellers often use to offload items (and problems) to someone else.

There is a moral here - be careful when fitting decoders as they are fairly easy to break

This sounds like a mechanical issue and somewhere an electrical contact is moving going around the curve and allowing both polarities to come together - only you can solve this by carefully looking at the loco and seeing what can possible be allowed to touch this causing short

but he also says; For us, it is currently completely unclear under which (tax) conditions sales to UK are processed after Brexit. This also applies to sales that are carried out before the Brexit deadline. In the event of a possible reversal of the purchase, it can happen that the purchase is carried out before and the reversal after Brexit - the latter under conditions that are currently completely unclear to us. In a warranty case, the period between purchase and reversal can be far more than a year. For this reason, at the beginning of 2019 we decided to outsource our sales to an external partner with a clear safety margin before and after the possible Brexit appointment. That partner would then have to solve this problem for us. (At that time the Brexit deadline was at the end of March 2019). The shift in sales to an external partner has also had an impact on the prices for the delivery to UK (see section Effects on prices in the article above). According to the information published here, the different prices in case of delivery to different countries (see also cross-border delivery) do not constitute a violation of EU directives. Customers from different EU countries don't have to be able to buy at the same price if the place of delivery is not in the same country. and elsewhere Due to the new tax regulations, the price in the affected country changes as follows: ..139.00 USD: Standard price for non-German-speaking countries outside the EU +..27.80 USD: 20% tax +..16.68 USD: 10% costs for tax processing and commissions of the external partner (may vary) ------------------- ..183.48 USD: total price

Especially when other companies are able to sell software globally at the same price to all customers yet their bases are with mainland Europe

Had a similar issue on a Liliput H0e D13 which would run badly until warm, moving a few inches, stopping, move a few inches more, stop until eventually it would run. Changed the decoder, didn't solve the issue - ran the motor on DC out of the loco - seemed to run perfectly, ran the motor out of the loco on DCC - seemed to run perfectly BUT when I put the motor under load the problems reappeared. Swapped the motor - cost €18 - and everything perfect

does it only do it on a curve, or only on a point, or ...

if this is a motor all you need to do is set the motor to learn (slide the switch), issue the address you want to use 2 or 3 times (straight, branched, straight, branched), change the motor switch back to run and your ready to go - the motor will now change whenever you issue the commend that that accessory address. simples

A tranny was a van in my parlance

To expand on what Keith says most (all?) European decoder manufactures have Railcom available in the decoders but not the American manufactures. If you have adeocded without Railcom then you can get a 'piggy back' chip that will provide the Railcom. There are several ways to read and use the Railcom ID using either an occupancy detector that will provide the ID over a bus to a computer or dedicated readers that display the ID on a LCD panel - or you can roll your own

Have you thought about using Railcom? That provides the unique ID for each loco and works extremely well

The JMRI suite, including DecoderPro, is Open Source, not Freeware (there are significant differences), and the ability to identify a shortcoming in a program isn't solely restricted to the development community. Nor does it mean the shortcoming is only acceptable if you rectify the said shortcoming yourself. Experience of open source software is, in fact, rather the opposite, as the development community has always been very appreciative of suggestions that have been made to improve the usability because they realise that they do not have all the use cases and that they are dependent upon the user community to provide these additional use cases.