While my friend and fellow club member, Peter was tuning engines, I
spent part of Saturday and Sunday re-routing Loco-Net cables. Many
months ago I moved my Digitrax system to a different part of my layout
with the idea of simplifying wiring and my life. The wiring thing
helped by the simplifying but something didn't work. Right now, I'm
unable to "boot-up" my system in a dependable fashion. I've verbally
consulted a local electronics and a Digitrax consultant for some help.
So far all the tests I've run have determined I've done things
correctly, but the problem is not solved. So I may require a home
visit, but I'm also the guy who refuses to ask for directions! This
system has worked for more than a few years and the changes I've made
have been minor. Now it's a bit like hand-cranking a car to get it
running--easy to do, but just frustrating!
Of course, one can only spend so much time fooling with wires, so mid
afternoon on Saturday a narrow-minded neighbor and I journeyed to
College Station, Texas to visit the last run of an On3 logging
railroad. The owner has now retired and decided to move to a nearby
city to start fresh. He had built a neat logging railroad with lots of
backwoods flavor including many "best of show" contest models. So some
slowing running, great conversation and some local BBQ made the evening
go well.
Sunday evening I decided to start a project that I put off last
year--pulling out my window AC unit for some needed cleaning and
what-not. Hopefully tonite I'll be able to reinstall the unit. It
needs to happen fairly quickly because I now have an open window to the
world and I don't need birds and squirrels moving in!
Bob Werre
PhotoTraxx
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.
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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