dave55uk

I have just acquired a Marklin AC Digital starter set.

Are there any other AC modellers on RMWeb? I cannot seem to find any reference if there are.

2 hours ago, PaulRhB said:

Both have been showing out of stock since last week as they withdrew them waiting to reblow to sort the flange squeal issue out. Fran explained this a page or two back. 
 

Thanks Paul, I'd missed that.

I thought the sound chips were in stock?. I had ordered, and paid for, a sound chip and speaker. Had notification this morning that the speaker was on it's way to me, but no mention of the chip.

On 22/02/2023 at 16:12, brylonscamel said:

 

On 22/02/2023 at 16:12, brylonscamel said:

Nice, but sadly wrong placing of signals.

17 hours ago, kevinlms said:

You get a similar type of response if you ring up to say the internet cable has been damaged - perhaps someone cut it while working in the garden or something.

 

Now there's the thing. Where I live I have no mobile signal (it's a dead spot in the city).

I have the internet and home phone line from the same provider.

So when the cable gets cut (and it has been - twice), I lose the internet AND phone, so I have to go and find a neighbour on the same network

and ask if I can borrow their phone to ring the fault centre.

Not saying there's something fishy going on, but my rent [housing association flat] for the last two years has gone up by the same amount [within a £ or two] as the amount of increase in my state pension.

21 hours ago, Krieghoff said:

Just bagged a sound fitted model WWooooooo Hoooooooo

Same here - 37140.

23 minutes ago, Accurascale Fran said:

We would always recommend the additional Accurathrash speaker with our sound decoders for full experience and it just plugs into the PCB too (no need to solder!)

 

We have just sold out but more are due in stock in a couple of weeks.

 

Cheers!

 

Fran 

I will certainly let him know - thanks Fran.

9 minutes ago, sulzer71 said:

I take it he didn't buy the Accurathrash speaker then 

No, he didn't (silly man).

A friend of mine (not on RMWeb) had his Loch Eil delivered, along with the AS sound chip but not the extra speaker.

He says he's not impressed with the sound from the built-in speaker.

As my 37 is not due until the end of August, when my sound chip AND speaker arrive, I'll let him fit them into his 37.

On 16/05/2023 at 08:10, Halton Boy said:

Now that Dapol have announced production of O gauge electrically operated ground signals I have produced a layout diagram based on a disused station being used as a goods yard.

If I use  DCC Concepts Cobolt signal levers and analogue point motors combined with Dapol motorised signals can I operate the layout by combining the ground signals and the point operation using one signal lever for the operation of the point and the ground signal.

 

Lever two in normal position sets the top disc on and the bottom disc to stop with the points to normal running.

Lever two reversed sets the bottom disc on and the top disc to stop and moves the points to the yard.

I am not sure if this is correct.

 

 

'on' and 'stop' mean the same thing. If a signal is 'on' then the train has to stop.

4 hours ago, DY444 said:

The second answer, and more relevant to your Paddington example, is that in many countries it doesn't matter which line you're going onto because reading your next signal is not that important until you are quite close to it.  This is because train protection systems like KVB in France and PZB in Germany supervise the train speed and braking curves when approaching a red.  Now this supervision can be relatively crude (especially PZB) compared with systems like ETRMS (or even the German LZB system used on higher speed lines) but nevertheless they make it pretty difficult to approach a red at high speed because you read the wrong signal so there's time for you to get your bearings.  Plus in Germany certainly, there is a tendency to be very generous with the provision of repeaters on the approach to stop signals which can also help.

Also, in Germany at least, generally the signalling goes - distant, starter, distant, starter * - so if a driver was to be routed onto some other line than he/she was expecting, then there would always be a distant signal 1km before the next stop signal. And, again generally, signals are always * placed above or immediately to the right of the line the train is on.

* - 99% of the time

On 08/05/2023 at 20:31, Daniel Beardsmore said:

 

https://openinframap.org/#15.66/52.825456/-1.070075

 

 

Terrific map - thanks for the link.

As an added bonus for the Roco Route Controller, you can set-up a whole sequence to operate points & signals, which makes life a lot easier.

Each can handle up to 32 different routes and you can a second controller (like I have) if you wish to.

The hardest part is finding the things! LOL

10 minutes ago, russ p said:

I find a switch is far quicker to change than messing about in DCC menus 

True, but I use Roco Route Controllers so it's simply a matter of typing in the signal number and pressing a button.

3 hours ago, 6990WitherslackHall said:

Is it operated via DCC or with a switch?

DCC.

Wired mine to a DCC Concepts Alpha Mimic board - works fine.

44 minutes ago, Grovenor said:

See http://www.norgrove.me.uk/signalling/plans/Euston-a.gif

Thats hardly a minority type layout though :-)

10 hours ago, bécasse said:

... they might well have Y/G/Y/R four aspect heads...

Terminus platform starters would be 3 aspect (R/Y/G) as the double yellow is used to give an increased braking distance, something not necessary from a terminus.

4 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you. They're the ones I had in mind - 211 & 212.

I like the look of that loco - a Hunslet? Looks like a German 112 class loco to me.

6 hours ago, Steven B said:

... I can now turn on/off red lights at either end at will (including when the directional head-lights are on!)...
 

But I'm not on about RED tail lights (and yes, some decoders do allow turning off the tail lights when vehicles are attached to the loco),

I'm on about the HEADLIGHTS.

2 minutes ago, Wickham Green too said:

Better - or at least more realistic - would be a function that can be used to designate the 'front' of the loco before starting from wherever, rather than an override to an automatic system. 

Indeed. i did think of that but plumped for the over-ride function in my post.

Despite all the advancements in DCC and electronics, there's still one thing (at least) wrong with lights on locos.

Imagine, as a simple example, a freight arriving at an intermediate place to drop off a wagon into a siding.

As soon as the (model) loco and wagon(s) reverse to go into the siding, the headlights on the loco switch ends - this is NOT SO in real life.

So I think there should be an over-ride function for such a scenario. To me, this would be much more useful and realistic

than the multitude of 'extra' sounds provided that I (and probably others too) never use.

1 minute ago, McC said:

 

We've simplified the page and removed the non working cart buttons.https://www.accurascale.com/products/br-21t-mdv-mineral-wagon-tops-bauxite-exclusive

So you have! Well done.