Dear Alan, You need to look at drawings or images of the prototype item. They are oversized for S. Although the items may look good, and correct, the question is are they S Scale. On the other hand, if they look good to you, buy them... Re: LocoMatic at shows. You need to do what we do (did?). On your LM 10 button controller, you need to attach a length of paired speaker wires to the "track" posts. On the other end you will put two alligator clips. The ones with the vinyl protectors would be best. As long as you can plug in the 9 volt power source, you can connect the alligator clips anywhere along the bottom of the layout to the two track power leads. Put the voltage up and you can run mode III LM. I have brought this to peoples houses to show them how to run LM. You do not need the track voltage going through the LM 10 button controller. I wish I had known that when we started.... Don
On Jan 20, 2013, at 10:37 PM, Alan Lambert wrote: > > From: Alan Lambert > Fort Worth, Texas > > Don, > > My question now is why do they list the DZ-1010 crossing gate and signal pair > as where rhey say to sink the base for "S" scale. While the DZ-1050 > measures 33 S scale feet from bottom of base. They list a DZ-1050S on their > website.. I picked up both at my local Fort Worth Train show. I realize the > DZ-1050 at 33S scale feet is too tall but with a little work I can shorten > it. Just got back from our Plano, Texas train show. No body had any S-Helper > leftovers. I did set up my NW-2 up for AC forward only on my clubs AC layout. > they have not got it set up for me to Run in LocoMatic mode, but I did run it > for 2 hours straight and did not have any problems. Now I will reset it for > full LocoMatc sound operation for my layout at home. > Alan Lambert > > > From: Don Thompson <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 4:51 AM > Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Recommending FUNCTIONING signals > > > Dear Alan, We know the two guys from Z-Stuff as their booth is across the > isle from us at York. There stuff works just fine, and is very simple to set > up. The problem is that it is not S Scale. But their "O" signal heads > mounted on shorter masts... > Don > > On Jan 20, 2013, at 12:20 AM, Alan Lambert wrote: > >> >> >> From: Alan Lambert >> Fort Worth, Texas >> >> Another source is Z-Stuff for Trains at www.z-suff.net >> Alan Lamber > > > > > >
