dcc

Hi all, for a while I have posted on RMWeb but thought it remiss of me not to be on here too. I’m at Railex at Stoke Mandeville over the weekend with Midland in Tewkesbury and was chatting to a friend today who was extolling the virtues of WT. As I haven’t posted here for a while, I thought I’d...

I had an idea a couple of years ago that the location of the old 60’ turntable at Lime Street station situated by the signal box could make an interesting fictional stabling point. It would also make a good layout as it’s self contained in the cutting with the signal box making a rather good...

Under a week to go until the Great Cornish Model Show! April 15 & 16 2023. This year we are expanding our show from just model railways to include modelmaking from other subjects including model boats, ships, aircraft both radio controlled and static, radio controlled trucks, military...

Good morning, it’s been a while since I posted and so much has happened, I moved up from EM gauge to 7mm which I loved but after making quite a bit of progress and accumulating quite a few locos I realised the reality that I’d probably never finish the project due to the size and lack of space I...

I’m sure the process to fit a decoder to a kit built 0 gauge loco is fairly standard. I tested the sound file and changed some CVs using the ESU decoder tester and Lokprogrammer. All was well. I then fitted a 4 ohm speaker and wired the pickups and Maxon motor (ABC). The chassis was then placed...

I've just started to convert a Heljan O-gauge Class 47 to DCC and wondered if somebody could advise me on the lighting. My loco is one of the first edition Class 47s (it must be 10+ years old) and, judging by the number of resistors on the Heljan analogue circuit board (which I'm discarding)...

Sorry, link does not work correctly, back soon when corrected. Best regards, Paul

Hello there, after designing and building many layout which have been subsequently dismantled, I thought I would give it another try and here I am with a fresh start. After returning to the hobby only about a month ago, I started drawing up plans on what would become a southern region terminus...

This is really to act as a guide if you wish to use your favourite 21 pin decoder in some of the later RTR releases. The Dapol O scale 08 being such an example. It is a slight variation of my reply in the Dapol 08 thread but may become relevant as further O scale RTR locos are released...

I wonder if any luminary out there can advise me on this - Looking at a chip I have just put into a modified Heljan 37 (Loksound XL v4.0), it occurred to me that I might be able to wire the red lights to spare aux ports (an extra one now the fan is disconnected for good) and programme them to...

When I was small my mum and dad took me to Dyffryn Ardudwy for our summer holidays, a village not far from Barmouth which we went to nearly every year when I was young. BR blue DMU's and double headed 37's on summer specials are what I remember, I had loads of photos but thinking I'll never use...

Just a simple one-liner, "you can get better speakers" - although "better" than what is not clear. A rare outing of a favourite diesel and the sound is burbling nicely. The host for the day offers the thought that maybe a different speaker might be worth considering - fair comment, just how do...

Hi all Following a conversation with a visitor at Telford 2015 regarding difficulties with the SPROG decoder programmer and Windows 10 I thought it was about time I tested it on my laptop which upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10. I have an early version of SPROG II and not SPROG II version...

Not sure if this should go here, but here goes, I've just acquired my first sound fitted DCC loco, I knew before I got it there might be some issues, the description was sound but no movement and on DC no movement at all.....but I kinda expected that last bit LOL, having said that, the box and...

So we have a single head, two aspect, colour light signal with red / green LEDs for illumination (design by @Pete Harvey and kit from C&L Finescale)... we are thinking that operating the signal from DCC ought to be possible. I have looked at the range of decoders on the DCC Supplies web site...

I run all my Heljan and now some of my JLTRT locos with one sound chip either a Loksound or the XL version some have 3.5s and others are version 4, it powers both motors wired in parallel. CV 56 was set to maximum on all the decoders I have on the version 4s this was based on their auto setup...