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Problem with hairspray is that it doesn't hold the grass for very long - after a few months the grass will be gone

Hornby have been saying this for at least 10 years, actually probably ever since they introduced Railmaster and nothing has ever appeared.

Locos respond instantly to a change of the rotary position and I suggest that is an encoder, not a potentiometer, because you re-zero the centre position from within the menu structure. The centre position also has a physical click so you know when it is at zero.

Good question because they show a cord with the hand controller and sell the cord as a separate replacement item

Having played with the Kinesis last year they will need to have made a huge number of changes to make into a useable system - it felt like a 1980 remote controller for a video recorder in my hand and the buttons were just as confusing. Unfortunately I was not alone in my view of the product which was not seen to be the in slightest 'ground breaking', or revolutionary.

The YD9401 is actually an ESP32 at its core which when assembled with other components onto a custom board it fits into the DR5000 as an enhancement to the original Digikeijs product, providing some of the benefits to the DR5000 that will be available in the YAMORC command station.

That's the problem 😉

Just one knob and that is with a cord which means it doesn't really meet the original requirement for two knobs or mobility either 🤣

Not exactly portable either 😉

YAMORC are not 'taking over' anything from Digikeijs which is what you stated and implied. YAMORC is a completely different company that has no liability or interest in the Digikeijs products. The designs for all of the YAMORC product lines are all completely new with no dependence or reliance on the Digikeijs products.

Just punch in the loco number you want to control rather than bothering with the names - much easier, and you can use the left/right keys to go up/down the numbering, though if the numbers are far apart it is quicker to type the number in again.

And Bluetooth isn't? I have often found my earphones crackling and losing connectivity to my phone when sat trying to have lunch at shows - not really surprising given it is the same frequency as 2.4GHz WiFi - and more phones have Bluetooth switched on than WiFi, with the only real difference being the signal strength which is a lot weaker with Bluetooth than WiFi.

May I suggest that you give James a call at DCC Train Automation, he has the DT602 in stock, as the link shows, and he will be able to create a package that will work for you?

I don't think that the DT602 can be easily interfaced to a Gaugemaster command station because it uses Loconet which Gaugemaster doesn't support (AFAIK). you would need to buy a Loconet gateway that works with your command station, then connect a UR92 and finally the DT602 into the UR92. A UR92 is around £130 and a DT602 around £170 or £300 for the Loconet parts, and you still have to find a gateway - possibly another £50-£100. Your aversion to technical solutions may also preclude this option. I suggest that you would be better spending the money on a command station that has a Loconet connection of which there are many around. You should get one for around £200-£250 however you still need to add on £300 for the DT602+UR92 - how much do you want to spend?

Did I see you using a DT602 on Saturday also?

Personally I would cut a slot in the chassis to allow the decoder to sit inside it , that way it would be clear of the body shell. I would also insulate the end of the blue, white and yellow wires properly. Also Sellotape isn't a good way to hold things on

Body shell is pressing on the decoder or wiring that you have done and breaking a contact somewhere.

I have a DT400 that works flawlessly with a Z21 when plugged into Loconet N.B. this solution will not work with z21.

You missed out the word 'very' before expensive 😉

Page 69 of the manual here - Z21 WLANMAUS Manual (DE, EN) Look at the numbers at the bottom of the screen and then you will know you are in the correct place irrespective of whatever language you are looking at now. This is the German equivalent of the above (page 26 in the link).

Faster is generally quicker in terms of the time taken for something tripping, not a lower current value - what is CB?

Bob, I have found over the many years of operating using a Z21 and their boosters that using the defaults is perfectly adequate and other than running the track from the boosters and the accessories from the Z21 I haven’t needed to change a single setting. Using the defaults proved extremely useful at one exhibition when a power cut at an exhibition caused other layouts to loose custom settings in various devices because I was using the defaults everything came back up and ran perfectly as soon as the power was restored 😀

That is totally incorrect statement. The "stay-alive" you have fitted will have masked the effects of a track voltage which may be too low and possible poor track. Quarry Hunslets have extremely short chassis which together with a low mass require that track laying is extremely good. "Stay-alives" only ever mask problems, they never cure problems. It is also the case that many people run the track at too low a voltage, forgetting (or possibly unaware) that the mythical 12v of DC which they like to run the track at, is reduced by around 2v by the decoder. DCC should be using a track voltage of 14-15v DCC to overcome that limitation.

Please explain why you need different, or better, pickups for DCC compared to DC and what the benefits are. It would also help the OP if you detailed exactly how you improved the pickups on your quarry Hunsletts which made them run better.

Sorry, but I still don't understand what this directional/bi-directional reference means 😒