Calimero
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After my dissapointment with the Cobalts I've been fitting Seep motors instead. Impressed with my work so far! :-)
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After my dissapointment with the Cobalts I've been fitting Seep motors instead. Impressed with my work so far! :-)
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Not overly impressed with the Cobalt Point Motors, just played up ever since fitting and why have they stopped working properly!!! Time to think about going back to Peco!
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Well quite impressed as I managed to fit a DCC decoder into an older Roco BB7200 thanks to online help at http://www.lolkebijlsma.com/el16_dcc.html. Works as well although not as my newer Roco BB! Now need to look at my baseboard joins as the track alignment isn't that great :-(
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Ok, NCE Powercab wired up and tested that power is going through the bus. TSC decoder arrived this morning and plugged into a BB7200, it works!! :-) . Also wired up one of the cobalt motors and that works!! :-) Next steps, do the rest of the points once the toggle switches arrive, lay the remaining track once ordered from Hattons, get four more decoders although they'll need wiring in :-s. Oh yes start a thread on here.
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Apologies for posting so many stupid questions on here. Anyway thanks for all the answers, happy chap now as just connected my NCE Powercab and bingo my BUS is working. Little blip which was a connector not properly attatched but I'm up and running. Points are fitted with cobalts and nearly all wired up and just some more track needed.
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Apologies for posting so many stupid questions on here. Anyway thanks for all the answers, happy chap now as just connected my NCE Powercab and bingo my BUS is working. Little blip which was a connector not properly attatched but I'm up and running. Points are fitted with cobalts and nearly all wired up and just some more track needed.
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so after yesterdays disaster, i've purchased some new thinner tips for my solder iron as well as a helping hand :-) Done three points for the DCC conversion, no melted plastic :-) New points should arrive tomorrow so when I get home from work i'll solder those and crack on with the track laying :-)
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Turns out I am s*** at soldering, that's three peco points into the bin!! Back to the drawing board and do I really need to do all this just to run my trains!! Thinking about giving it all up :-(
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Clean the workpeice first, bit of liquid flux, small blob of solder on the tip of the iron, bring to fluxed area and sizzle, its tinned, strip end of wire, dip the stripped end in same said flux, another small blob on the tip and zap the wires tinned, snip the tinned bit down to the size required, bend to shape as required, bit more flux on the area to be joined, hold in place with one hand introduce cleaned tip of iron with other hand, wait for solder to liquify, removed iron, swear whilst f...
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