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All set up and ready, no hassles with an hour to go today show start 😁

Stage 1, big box is out of the loft and ready to load tomorrow 😁🚂🚂🚂

4 minutes ago, Ramrig said:

According to Royal Mail, mine should be with me by 3pm tomorrow.  The waiting is nearly over. Might even get the chance to “run it in” at Mickleover Model Railway Exhibition this weekend 👍

Ah! this weekend? that clashes horribly with the Elizabethan ☹️

37 is now live to download 😁

1 hour ago, NBL said:

It's worse than full volume class 20's on the next layout at an exhibition, but not as bad as the US layout on the other side with the bells dinging all day at full volume!!!!

or the video trader running his US railroad videos all weekend - ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding ......

4 hours ago, Pete the Elaner said:

 

I have been to shows where the last hour is ridiculous. These are usually ones which stay open later.
The CMRA one at St Albans stayed open until 6pm in January. I was there a few times as an exhibitor & it was often totally dead from 5pm, with nobody other than exhibitors wandering around waiting for the show to close.
I also exhibited at the Bristol (Thornbury) show once & that stayed open until 6.30pm. Like St Albans, after 5, it was only exhibitors walking around.

Some organisers need to realise that most exhibitors are volunteers & exhibiting can be tiresome but socialising is an important part of the weekend. Staying open late when they are not getting any more visitors can put people off from exhibiting (I have refused for this reason before now).

It works differently for different shows though. I have exhibited at Warley, GETS & Modelrail Scotland, all of which do stay busy until 6.00, but most do not.

We used to finish at 4pm on Sunday at the Mansfield Show and as you say, the last hour was basically just exhibitors and traders walking round. We have now changed to 3pm which works well for all concerned. We remain open until 5pm on the Saturday mind.

My O gauge Pug is now HM7000 sound equipped and can be seen in action on Fourgig East this weekend. I will also be testing a pre-production Legacy Dongle connected to a Select controller to see how this performs in a live environment too.

Question is can I control my locos with a smartphone 🤣

Powercab will be on hand if not ......

33 minutes ago, Bob83a said:

According to the schedule (25/9/23) the sound profiles for the class 37 and Turbomotive in OO were due in Q3 so are now overdue. So should be available shortly.

 

Turbomotive is live, available to download.

26 minutes ago, OnTheBranchline said:

 

I assume that the application wasn’t serious enough for the FIA to consider, given the female driver isn’t even close to a super licence.

Now that is a closed cartel

15 minutes ago, Pete the Elaner said:

 

I would publicly give Verstappen team orders to help Perez. Let's see what balls the Red Bull management really have?

Pointless, Max has demonstrated already that he will just ignore team orders that don't favour him

Latest list of sounds available etc, note all that have been changed to rev 2 and the notes at the bottom explaining the changes. I'd recommend all update their locos to get the benefits 😉

18 minutes ago, digger62 said:

Hi does anyone know if the dongle will be compatible with the Signatrak Ace? 

Many thanks 

Mark 

No ExpressNet socket, so sorry, doesn't look like it

If he were to move anywhere it would be to replace Leclerc at Ferrari - back with his bestie Carlos

How much to Pirates pay for their earrings?

a Buck an ear!

arr!

I can do some nice vac pipes, my own 3d design, originally intended for G scale , but scale down quite well, these are actually OO gauge….

here’s a grab of the 3d design

15 hours ago, zr2498 said:

or change to DCC ready (and wait for ANO).

 

A good approach if you want to hear the sounds before committing - it will be easy to get a TXS decoder later and load the sounds yourself. If you don't like them, use the decoder in another loco and load a different profile via the app 😉

1 hour ago, zr2498 said:

I asked Hornby if there was a demo of their soon to be delivered Turbo'.

This was the reply:

 

Thank you for your email, we do not currently have a sound demo available for the Turbomotive. We are very pleased with the Turbomotive profile and what we have been able to achieve with is, asking development, they have asked me not to pass on specifics until we are able to market the model properly as and when it arrives. I am sorry I cannot be more helpful than this at the moment. 

 

Incredible! Basically if you have a pre-order, then pay for it now and wait and see what you get. At the price being asked .... no chance.

I will be cancelling my pre-order and wait to see what turns up.

I see Wheeltappers have the Turbomotive under development.

 

 

The Turbomotive sound scheme is not completed yet, so how could they in all seriousness release a sound demo - there would be inevitable complaints that it was not complete etc etc etc. It is close though - patience is a virtue so they say

Back in the early days of Summat Colliery I set it up on the Friday evening at a local show only to find that my DCC controller - a Bachmann Dynamis would not connect. The handset flat refused to see the base station no matter what I tried. There was something in the room that was swamping the IR. Luckily my operator for the weekend brought his Powercab in on the Saturday morning. I bought one myself the following week and sold the Dynamis.

Thankfully it was a local show and I'd decided to set up Friday evening to have a bit more of a lie-in on Saturday morning. If I'd turned up on Saturday morning to set up I would have been stuffed.

I'm back there next month with my O gauge layout Fourgig East - still with the Powercab 😉

9 hours ago, john new said:

What customer, by any given scale of normality, spends the price of a small house on a watch? Not a normal customer, just one of the obscenely rich.

not a small house in Mansfield, it’s all a matter of scale/income etc 😉

I seem to have caught my son’s passion for watches, especially since I inherited my dad’s 1973 Longines. I find myself lusting after £2500 new versions….

This might be the problem - from the specifications for the phone - "MIUI 12.5 based on Android 11" 

There's no way of telling from this how the Chinese have implemented their "copy" of Android. Pot luck I'm afraid on if it works or not.

6 minutes ago, digger62 said:

Thanks for that. Do you know if any Elite or Select would be compatible or do they need to be a newer version? 

I've certainly tested the Dongle with a very old Select, probably one of the earliest versions of the firmware. 

12 hours ago, digger62 said:

Thanks for that. Shame as I had thought about converting quite a few of my locos, but if it's not compatible. I'll have to think again. 

It is, but in reality the Powercab is an old design, using an "in-house" communication protocol rather than something more widely adopted like XpressNet. In the end I'll probably migrate to a Z21 unless I can pick up an Elite cheap. It all depends on if I can control locos ok with a smartphone at an exhibition. I will hopefully test this with my Select and prototype Dongle at the Elizabethan show in October.

1 minute ago, digger62 said:

Does anyone know if the dongle will work with the NCE Powercab?

Many thanks

Sorry (for me too) no ☹️

I'm trying to get folks in MERG interested in producing either a converter or an NCE specific dongle, but that needs a production version released first to test etc.

The Dongle is still in testing at the moment, we are awaiting an updated version of the firmware to address issues already found (I can't say what they are)