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    Can't control loco speed

    in Hornby RailMaster & TrackMaster

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    I've recently encountered this problem. I had a friend who is pretty clued up on electronic stuff fix an issue with the motor and it went ok after that but now it's gone a bit loopy. My Silver King goes at full speed regardless of setting. The Loco DCC ID has a pale blue background while all other locos are grey. There is a small #2 above the speed control slider. I think this may be due to DC running which seems to be set on the default 6.

    Changing screen size of track schematic

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    Thanks for your responses but cyberspace only made them available to me for the first time today. I thought that very odd since you guys are usually on the ball very quickly (RAF 7 minutes), the last time I looked I'd had 22 views but no responses. Since I thought no one on the forum was going to respond I sent a help request to railmaster support. They responded in lightning quick time with the same advice that you have given me and which I already knew but was not able to make happen.

     

    Here's what happened next -  

     

    I went back into railmaster but no matter how hard I looked I couldn't see any window to set the screen size on the main screen. I was going to send a screen shot of my screen and just by chance the cursor touched the floating touch screen button and low and behold a bit of the screen size window appeared. I previously had shut down and restarted railmaster several times because I was pretty sure that there was a window there even though I had not had any reason to use it for a number of years. The only thing I can take from this experience was that the floating button was constantly re-docking on top of the screen size window instead of in what I see is it's default position just below it. Perhaps you could file this away in the memory bank in case anyone else gets caught with this strange quirk.

     

     

    Thanks again    

    Motor ID

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Thanks a lot for your quick and considered responses.

    Now that I know the part number I have found that it may be available at an almost local hobby shop for AU$37.45 (£21) which seems a ridiculous amount to me.

    I'm not too worried about the replacement being genuine or not since the genuine version has lasted the shortest time of all my locos.

    I've checked e-bay but have been unable to find the Chinese versions mentioned.

    Can you, RAF or Atom or anyone else point me to a URL or other web address or link?

    Next question - can the worm be removed from the original and re-used or does it have to be replaced?

    A little bit of guidance on dealing with this last matter would be helpful.

    Motor ID

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Could someone please identify the motor in the photo.  I have also added the box end details./media/tinymce_upload/6564ecd7bd05ec562d2674a15d1bf1bf.jpg/media/tinymce_upload/438f5bb4ebc966b64ba24a0a216d5137.jpg

    Very weird happening

    in Hornby RailMaster & TrackMaster

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    @RAF96

    My usual regime is to turn everything off before leaving the room.

    This is the first time I've left anything switched on.

    It looks to me that the e-link has some residual memory, although the last memory it would have had is of the loco being in a stopped position not cruising.

     

    Note to self - turn off everything before leaving the room.

    Very weird happening

    in Hornby RailMaster & TrackMaster

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    @atom3624

    It would need to be a super duper capacitor because the loco was running for about 20 metres before I stopped it by turning on railmaster.

     

    @St1ngr4y

    The loco was definitely stopped before I left the room and when it started it went at cruising speed which is what it had been doing during the previous day.

    Track extension packs not what expected

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I don't see what there is to get confused about.

    As I read your post, you have your trains currently performing a certain manoeuvre and you want them to perform the opposite manoeuvre on the other side of the layout.

    If you want the trains to do the opposite manoeuvre then you simply use two points of the opposite hand to the ones you currently have in use.

    If you have two right hand points (as I read your post) then you will now need two left hand points

    Is it possible to use a model train to haul useful loads?

    in General Discussion

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    @New lad on block

     

    I had a look at that site and those details.

    What strikes me as being odd, is that the Guinness version mentions 200  BR143 model locos pulling a 47 tonne carriage, whereas the video that I posted shows 198 BR182 model locos pulling a full size 87 tonne loco over the same 10M distance.

    You would think that there would be a video record of the Guinness effort but I can't find any.

    I couldn't even find a photo which Marklin may have used in promotion material.

     

    Curiouser and curiouser.

    Class 66 DCC Running Issues

    in Hornby DCC

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    @RAF96

    Hatton’s decoders are junk in my opinion . . . They  even put a caveat on their product page saying these may not work with Hornby controllers, which are NMRA warranted.

    I wasn't aware of the Hatton's caveat, but I have to say that I have not had any problems with the seven that I have installed.

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