Hi All,
I spent a pleasant few hours this afternoon tinkering with my S Helper
NW2 switcher engine and DecoderPro. I wanted to see if I could get the
engine to crawl, and I did. I managed to get it to go a measured 0.12
scale mph at speed step "1". I also recently figured out how to get the
engine to be quiet when the layout is turned on, and how to use the Stop
button on the throttle to trigger the primer mover shut-down sound. I've
captured this on a new page on my web site:
http://pmrr.org/Equipment/NW2/Decoder.htm
Yesterday I spent some time making two new brass wipers for one of my
American Models FA-2 engines. I ran it for a few hours on our club
layout last weekend, until it started stammering too much. It turns out
that one of the brass wipers on the model was fried, and the other had
some burn marks on it. Both were melted into the plastic part that keeps
the brass wiper in place and away from the metal frame of the truck/gear
tower. Ouch! That must have been some current that went through them.
The engine has a Digitrax DZ-series motor-control-only decoder in it
(left over from my N-scale days), which is rated for 2 amps max. The
decoder is fine. I formed a new set of brass wipers from some 0.019"
brass wire and all appears to be fine now.
I uploaded a brief 15 second video of the FA-2 A/B/A set running on our
club layout last October. I'm starting to move my videos from YouTube to
Vimeo (I don't like Google's privacy policy), so I'll be adding more
over time.
http://vimeo.com/37384160
Enjoy,
- Peter.
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Peter Vanvliet ([email protected])
Houston, Texas
http://pmrr.org/ (my model railroad - RSS feed <http://pmrr.org/rss.xml>)
http://fourthray.com/ (my company)
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http://nasg.org/
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