AlanVSparks

Sorry but my D6313 NBL has failed!

one of the inner wheelsets has moved out of guage and lost its drive. On closer inspection the wheels are free to turn and not connected to the drive at all.

When is ran to start with all was well but then it developed a flat tyre noise and a knocking sound.

The other strange thing was an occasional overload on my NCE Power Cab, that was strange as well.

I was also suprised to see the decoder is fitted the other way up compared to Bachmann 21 pin sockets. its not just the arrangement of pins, the decoder sits on the Dapol circuit board components if you try to fit it the other way up.

All very sad, after a short run it was back in the box and return to the supplier.

Dear SRman

Your video clips of DCC Sound are great.

I am interested to fit a 2nd speaker to a class 20 as you have done. What should I watch for? Are they wired in series and do I need two 50ohm speakers or 100ohm types.

Any advice appreciated

Thanks

Alan

OK, so to start off, here, at long last, is the vid of my Hornby class 73 with Howes' beta version of the diesel sounds. Bryan of Howes has not yet released this for general consumption as he wants feedback before finalising it.

 

I have put two versions here one of 5.8MB and one of 18.5MB - both are the same movie just that one is higher quality but may tax some people's download bandwidth.

 

Other modifications include fitting a bass-reflex speaker and reversing one of the driving axles so that the unobstructed electrical pickups are on three wheels on each side while there is now only one traction tyre per side, as opposed to having two on one side and none on the other as it comes from Hornby's factory.

 

Video was courtesy of Neil S Wood and his skills, camera and tripod - thanks again, Neil. (thumbs up smiley goes here when available) All editing and effects were done by me using Pinnacle Studio 12.

 

The smaller one:

 

 

The larger one: