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4 hours ago, 97406 said:

Pressing the box lid down into place also makes a satisfying farting noise if you get it right!

ModelU are getting really good, must have been when they scanned McC

12 hours ago, e30ftw said:

Is it true Rail/model rail will be doing the unique infrastructure livery and named after rail magazine?

 

 

Got a bit carried away with the small warning panel there.

10 hours ago, The Johnster said:

In days of old 

when knights were bold 

and women weren’t invented, 

they greased a hole

in a telegraph pole

and thus they were contented. 
 

Went to a different school, Hroth.

 

Obviously not a public school, no need for ladies there…….

15 hours ago, The Johnster said:

Sorry, tried to make it as inoffensive as I could, but one had to attempt to encapsulate the problem.  It was awful stuff, and proof that not everything was better in the good (allegedly) old days!

Don’t worry your post was funny, unlike trying to use grease proof paper for said purposes.

10 hours ago, Jeremy Davison said:

Yes, it does:

"Stable temperature conditions: more power when driving and charging

The thermal management system aims to get the battery up to the ideal temperature range of around 30 degrees Celsius quickly after it is started and to keep it there until the end of the journey. This ensures that its full power – and therefore the power of the entire drive system – is available after a short time even in extremely cold conditions. Thanks to the stable thermal conditions, the driver can also call on it repeatedly or charge the battery at an HPC charging terminal with high output. The sophisticated thermal management system also gives the battery a long life cycle – Audi guarantees that it will still have at least 70 percent capacity after eight years of operation or after 160,000 kilometers."

From https://www.audi-mediacenter.com/en/electric-suvs-in-the-premium-compact-segment-the-audi-q4-e-tron-and-the-q4-sportback-e-tron-13887/battery-thermal-management-and-charging-13902

 

What I can't tell, is whether the system will warm the battery whilst it is still plugged into the house whilst the cabin warms up.

If it’s like the BMW you have to tell it your planning on going on a journey so the car can start to warm the traction battery up before you leave, it takes a few hours to get a large cold battery up to 25/30°……the cabin climatisation takes just 15-20 minutes.

EVs are very clever but they cannot predict when your going to use them…….maybe in a year or so 😆

4 minutes ago, PeterStiles said:

 

Whomever it was, I bow to them.

And because of them you can bow lower.

41 minutes ago, The Johnster said:

I miss Izal about as much as I miss endemic pneumonia, especially since we used it at home so I had no respite from the school supply!  Medicated or not, it didn't work, simply moving the 'load' along rather than absorbing and retaining it; unmedicated newspaper worked much better!  And I suspect it would clog most modern u-bends.  A wonderful combination of pointless, useless, and unpleasant!

Much like your post 🤢

🤣

2 hours ago, Legend said:

That’s  all very well , but the reality is that he  has probably missed the important Christmas market for the bulk of his deliveries . Meanwhile he is sitting on inventory which ties up cash . Much better converting that to profit and cash in bank than holding it as inventory at cost .  

Fine but, the plans had been in place for the Christmas launch of the trains sets (both) for probably months and the logistics all planned, changing those plans and delivery/ordering just four weeks before Christmas just won’t happen.

53 minutes ago, Patriot87003 said:

 

 

 

 

I started my career back in 1994 and joined an engineering consultancy that was working on the Class 92 safety case. One of my earlier roles was to receive and print the many test traces from the Velim test track near Prague in Czech Republic; time flies! I first saw 92022 at the Crewe Basford Hall open day back in 1995 (below), then bought the Lima version when released.

 

 

Consultant to the British Coal board for coal fired Locos?

Did you design the chimneys? 😇
 

Amazing layout you have there 👍

21 minutes ago, AY Mod said:

 

When my parcel (via Royal Mail) ceases to be MIA. It's not Accurascale's fault; it's the post between the office and here.

Are you sure your 92 is not hiding in a tunnel on the `island of Sodor after hearing about your testing regime?

24 minutes ago, Bernard Lamb said:

But HS2 is also about training people for the future. We have yet to see the benefit of that.

Young folk from your area and all points further north are welcome to apply for jobs.

Some of these jobs are not what people would think are directly rail related.

We do Airbnb and it is surprising to find just what jobs people actually do when subcontracting to HS2 and other railway schems. They come from all over the country and presumably take most of their salary home to spend in the local economy.

Bernard 

That’s one hell’ava YTS scheme 😁

1 hour ago, irishmail said:

 

 

Hornby have obviously got thier reasons for not releasing the track yet, but would have thougt it better to sell some track now so people could start building layouts ready for when the stock arrives.??

Hopefully in the new year we will see some more promotion of TT:120 whne stock becomes available.

From most of what I have seen SK chatting about the TT range, he wants the “train set” nostalgia to be a major USP, so releasing the boxed sets first makes perfect sense.

17 hours ago, woodenhead said:

 

 

They will provide the service deemed suitable by the Government.

Or……attempt to 😉

1 hour ago, Dunsignalling said:

Fixed! 😉

No way, really? 🤣

👍

1 hour ago, Dunsignalling said:

 

Only Rudolph!

I didn’t know Rudolph passed his drivers exam. 😄

10 minutes ago, Ron Ron Ron said:

The EQB is also 300-400kg heavier than a Model 3 and is based on an ICE platform and body shell.

There must be some efficiency penalty resulting from that?

 

 

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Exactly, I was more concerned about the previous Teslas economy rather than the “brick” 😄

14 hours ago, black and decker boy said:

So just under 2 weeks in and today passed the 1000 mile mark in the EQB.

 

average since new is 2.6miles per kWh.

 

todays first day of winter & frost, managed a mere 2.3 mikes per kWh.

 

im experiencing far more charging points than I ever did in the Tesla but so far not really had to queue but still frustrated that none have been better than 50kw charge rate.

 

looking back at the model 3, I did 29,000 miles in 18months (it sat for nearly 12months through covid) at an average of 2.6miles per kWh (I’d expected a higher figure tbh). 

They both seem very low figures, maybe not so much the MB but the Tesla normally has a reputation for better economy.

Looking at your mileage would it be correct you do mostly motorway mileage, maybe “definitely” keeping up with traffic? 😉

20 minutes ago, Michael Hodgson said:

They probably didn't mean "Remove the Deltic bodyshell" on these pages 🤣

 

https://www.accurascale.com/products/copy-of-class-37-crew-driver-secondman-br?syclid=ce8cgmb7k04ebcnvqdig&utm_campaign=emailmarketing_141750927545&utm_medium=email&utm_source=shopify_email

 

https://www.accurascale.com/products/class-92-crew-driver-secondman?syclid=ce8ceoj7k044ocqdql5g&utm_campaign=emailmarketing_141750927545&utm_medium=email&utm_source=shopify_email

 

They did, but left off the “and return for a replacement Class 92 body” 😆

1 hour ago, Hroth said:

 

 

So that means you're legally prohibited from excessive outdoor christmas decorations?  You must be glad about that!

 

Do drivers normally stop at glittering reindeer with huge smiles?

4 hours ago, TomScrut said:

 

They'll probably work but I expect that you will need more than 6 functions to make the most of the lighting on these machines. I'd just buy an ESU one and be done with it.

 

59619 is the EU spec one which doesn't have 3 point speed curve, 59629 is the "DCC" one without the legacy protocols on but with 3 point speed curve. I tend to buy 59629 as they are slightly cheaper, but have some 59619s from a time when I couldn't get hold of 59629s and had stuff arriving!

 

 

@boxbrownie this is what I was on about the other day, but wasn't at a PC to do the screenshot in terms of NEM660 vs MKL, "DCC" vs non "DCC".

 

It is also worth noting to those who may want a few of these, it is usually cheaper to buy from German sites and pay for shipping rather than buying in the UK in my experience. I only fit ESU and so tend to go through a few of these!

Yes, that’s how I understood them, one is multi-protocol and lacks the three step speed set-up, still wondering why they even bothered making the difference, unless there was a chip/programming limitation.

1 hour ago, Accurascale Fran said:

Morning everyone!

 

Live scenes as our TPE sets get their glamour shots taken...

 

 

Once they're done and processed we will post them up.

 

Cheers!

 

Fran 

Now I know what the “broken screen” was down to….that crinkled foil reflector, and put the lens hood on properly 😂

3 hours ago, Peter749 said:

Thanks - might be fun getting hold of one of them.

 

I have seen other 21 Pin DCC decoders -

Gaugemaster DCC95 Ruby Series 6fn Pro DCC Decoder 21 Pin

Dapol Imperium1 21 Pin MTC 6-function DCC decoder

 

Would one of those work?

I don't wish to buy the wrong thing.

 

Peter

 

Don’t rule out the excellent Zimo range, amazing motor control.

1 hour ago, Peter749 said:

I will be interested to know the results - A LokPilot 5 DCC/MM/SX/M4, 21MTC seems to be unavailable in the UK.

 

Yes it’s not the “approved” V5 for the U.K. market, it’s US and RoW primarily, I think ESU shot themselves in the foot not releasing on our market IMO.

1 hour ago, KeithMacdonald said:

 

I concur.

 

Talking of confusing things in the mist reminds me of a time (about 25 years ago).  Are you all sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin. 🙂

 

We were on passage in a small craft off the coast of Devon, at night, in excellent weather, with a clear sky under stars and the sea was as calm as a millpond. It really was beautiful and good for the soul. But at dawn we ran into a thick sea mist as we approached Plymouth. Eyeball navigation became impossible, so no problem, we just cracked-on using GPS.

 

Now - and perhaps you have to have done it to appreciate it in full - but in fog, when the sea is dead flat, and there is literally nothing to give you any kind of visual reference at all, or even any sense of motion, plus the glimmer of light before dawn makes everything a uniformly dull grey, it all gets quite spooky. But being experienced mariners we had no problem. Using charts and GPS together, we'd proceeded in an orderly direction along the coast, avoiding the known rocks and cardinal marks, all the way into the Eastern Entrance to Plymouth Sound, and about a 1/2 mile in.

 

That's when we nearly shat ourselves and though we were about to die.

 

Out of the fog appeared one of HM Royal Navy's biggest frigates - it appeared to be heading at speed right towards us for a head-on collision - and we knew who would come off worst!!!

 

It took a significant few seconds to realise that in the spooky flat sea and fog, we simply couldn't tell that the frigate was moored and stationary. It was just us gliding across the flat sea straight towards it.

 

Full reverse, emergency stop! And relax, start breathing again. Then tiptoe off towards Drakes Island as though nothing had happened. How we laughed (afterwards) - cor lummy - such larks!

 

Right hand down a bit…….

12 hours ago, McC said:

it actually looks to be a reflection of the light box used to photograph the model. 

Yes could be, my window lights had smooth?plain front material.