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Interesting video but is this a layout you are building? The red sections in the plan are gradients over 3%. Your trains will struggle to get up slopes over 3%. Some of the grades are over 7%. Yellow sections are curves with less than 11" radius (28.2cm). One tight curve is 4.38cm The clearance...

Ah well, I don't know what camera apps are available for Microsoft. Is there a setting in the camera app you're using to stabilize video? Good lighting would help the quality too.

C1 is a capacitor
L1 and L2 are inductors

All of these components may adversely affect the PWM output of a decoder. I'd be inclined to remove the board entirely and hard-wire the decoder if it was mine.

Lachute wrote:Sorry for the poor quality. I really need to find a solution to stabilize my videos. Any ideas ?

I've seen worse. How are you filming it?

I thought you ran the point motors from the 16v ac supply . . Surely the 12v power is variable depending on how much “ throttle “ you apply from the controller .. ? Hi Neil, I didn't show the point motor control circuit in my drawing, only the track power circuit. I was trying to keep it simple :wi...

Can you see this? Does it make sense? Every frog V rail has an insulated rail joiner <IRJ>, two for each point, so on a crossover there are four IRJs. The frog is wired to the F contact on the SEEP point motor (F is for Frog). The D and E contact is wired to either Rail A or Rail B, being the output...

doesnt matter

here is a plan. Tried marking it up myself but my computer is being crap at me. Its a pity xtrkcad doesn't have any "wiring" tools.

are the points all identical (ie peco small streamline)?

well.. nothing ventured... I think you would have had to replace it eventually anyway.

Looks interesting so far. We have a few deliveries waiting on Australia Post. I think they're all stuck in the same place.

The suspense is killing me

These here are the brushes that rub on the commutator.
For a start I'd try putting the multimeter into "ohms" and testing across the brushes. The resistance should be fairly low. These brushes are fairly easy to remove and inspect.

Dad-1 wrote:a 5 planker is quite small volume

maybe that's why they would add a few coke rails?

Since you can't find anything about it no one can prove it didn't exist. I stumbled across this while Googling for "coke rails" http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/~adrian/steam/RCHWagons/index.html ... among other things :? It didn't specifically mention a 5 plank wagon with coke rails, but does off...