eurolizard

Hi all - thank you all for your replies and helpful suggestions. Charlie at RT was indeed very helpful and offered to set the direction on the decoder on one of the carriages if I mailed the unit to him. Having looked at the cost of postage there and back I've made the choice to bite the bullet and pick up a DCC controller second hand, and reverse the direction of one of the carriages on an isolated line. Who knows, this might encourage me to move the entire layout to DCC! In terms of the root cause, as was suggested above it does indeed seem that the outlet I purchased them from programmed the direction with both carriages on the line at the same time. The instructions note the importance of programming them seperately. Thanks once again. : )

I'll preface this by saying I know very little about how DCC works, but am familiar with the benefits of running a DCC track. My entire layout remains analogue DC for the time being, using a Hornby HM 2000. I have a stretch of analogue DC track, completely isolated from the rest of my layout, on which I want to run a Class 156 model (manufactured by RT). This is a multiple unit consisting of two cars. Both cars are motorised and fitted with sound. However, I'm having trouble getting both cars to move in the same direction! When the controller is set to 'forwards', both cars move in their own forward directions, i.e. they pull away from each other. Similarly, with the controller set to 'reverse', both cars move in their own reverse directions, i.e. push towards each other. Clearly this isn't what I'm wanting to happen, so I wonderded, is this a perculiarity of running a DCC fitted set on an analogue DC layout? Do I perhaps need to open up one of the cars and change a connection? (I've never done this before) My preference if possible would be to not remove the DCC decoder, as I actually quite like the slow start and engine rev sounds that it makes. But if I have to, then I'll have to. One thing to mention, in case it's relevant: I notice that the NEM pocket for the coupler has metal connections, presumably to carry communications / power from one car to the another. However, I'm not using any fancy couplings, just standard Hornby ones (the set was bought second hand with no couplings supplied). Any help to get both cars of this train moving in the same direction would be much appreciated!