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Michaelreedy71 wrote:need a set of smoke deflectors.

I think I'd try my hand at making some out of tinfoil or similar if it was mine.

I have put a feed at the bottom right but think I need one at the top left to feed the sidings on the top right. I'd put one top middle between the two points. My other question is for lighting in the cabs of the units (non DCC) would leds work on 12v DC would very in light as the front lights on m...

The trackbase gives off horrible acrid fumes if the soldering iron bit touches it, Simply slicing off the chairs sometimes isn't enough as you have to also accommodate the thickness of the rail joiner I have a temp controlled soldering iron so I turned it right down. I found the method quicker and ...

It really is very simple to slice off those rail chairs with a sharp knife. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/s4-OZql0EW3DfjvXdAslA-XGyBxnPm1smPFbnSPOvDFg4F5-2OtzheXD3jY2cUOcRF0GlKnKA79jZj1Xh7-Ro8PaBT2RFulslDbY6rFLkXR0h3v9j_gtQviaLFk_8DObvxhfkS_0hJyYIzhrDnmTQ30ZJaHx47PZVBb3bOTbxb_9nYF0giUSzaW-9N6GE...

You could encase them in clear heat-shrink tubing, perhaps?

LED Sales based in Australia. Dunno where you'd get them in the UK.

So anyway, My current layout is a 2.4mx1.0m table-top layout using Kato Unitrack. It's a little town called Picnic Creek, set somewhere in Kansas USA maybe. I don't spend as much time working on it as I ought to but here's some pics more or less charting the progress. I'm not sure how these links wo...

I imagine you could use an old fashioned AM transistor radio to detect EMI and probably an oscilloscope on the rails and the power supply would give you a visual indication. It would at least give you the ability to make a comparison. Proper EMC testing really requires a lab environment. Here is an ...

Hi George, a choke is another name for an inductor. Inductors pass DC but block high frequency noise (or choke it, I guess). Since the motor output of a DCC decoder is a high frequency PWM signal, the chokes are likely to interfere with it. The PCB is there to stop the motor noise feeding back to th...

heda wrote:Mmm that roof does look good, as the sheets are cheap enough I might try the tiles, do you just cut them into strips and stick them to card, doesn't seem like to much hard work.
Dave

Correct. Not too much if you can be bothered

Their roofing slate sheets are quite effective but it's a lots of work laying strips over each other.

No one has mentioned insulated rail joiners. You need to put them on the V rails of each point. Your wiring will then be ok for both DC, with just one loco, and DCC. If you don't fit them your points will short out the feeds coming through the V rails. Hi Thank you for this, excuse my ignorance but...

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Don't you hate it when manufacturers do not publish instructions online?

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