Blue Day

Hi all. It's been a while ..... Ive more or less got my track laid and wired via a bus set up. I'm wanting a bit of advice on testing for dead track I.e. track which isn't receiving power for some reason. Best way of testing? 12v bulb with 2 wires?

Thanks fellas. Yeh will see how it goes I guess before spending money I might not have to.

Hi chaps. Getting to fixing track / drop wires and points. Just wondering if my 1amp eLink will be sufficient? I probably won't be running more than 4 trains at once maximum. The layout is not massive and will have a maximum 20 points operating via Railmaster also - although as you don't use all the points at once I'm guessing that doesn't matter much? Am I right in thinking if I do need to up the amps to 4 I just need a suitable power Supply for the eLink? Also, the point decoder (Hornby), can this be connected directly to the bus wire where required?

Thanks Chris. I kind of thought that but wanted it confirming before I continued

Quick question - thought I'd add to this thread than start a new one. so I've started (veeerrry slooowly) to solder drop wires to my track. Finding a tad tedious and fiddly but slowly getting the hang of it. so, I've read various stuff in points and fixing drop wires but in a bit lost. Do I keep the power clips in the points and / or attach drop wires?

Thanks again.

Thanks Chris. Altering the values in the .ini file did the trick!

Thanks Chris. I determined I’m actually running windows 8 (doh) so would that be the same? If so it looks like the correct driver is installed? Any ideas why I get the greyed out controller A? Everything else seems to have loaded ok but still not working.

I have used the help site, I’ve even checked the .ini file and one of the 2 commands it tells you needs to be there, wasn’t. So I added it

Ok. RM is installed. Elink is connected at port 3 which RM seems to locate, but the controller A remains inactive (which is the elink). When I check the driver installed i see USB serial port (COM3) - should I see Elink there instead? Ive tried updating driver but it says latest driver installed.

Hi AC, everything doesn't work, that's the problem.

Just to clarify, I uninstalled the driver and tried again. When I plug in the elink, the driver shows as the Emulation Demo one, then after about 10 seconds that changes to USB Serial Port (COM3) I assume it SHOULD be showing Hornby Elink?

Ignore that. 1.71 installed, but still it looks like the wrong driver for the elink is also

OK so i click the link, a small box shows its downloading then it dissapears?

Sorry, but where do I load v1.71 from?