RR & Co Advanced Fine Tuning
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Mastering Brake Compensation
There's nothing up with the Bachmann decoders. The Lokprogrammer identifies them as a Lokpilot basic. I did my first YouTube video of my Fairburns doing a loco exchange and they crawled superbly.At £12 from Hattons they are an absolute steal they only limited by the number of accessible cv's.
Dave I got the concepts chip last week so I guess it's a newish version. What I did notice, when I test profiled it a Fairburn I had stripped, i got a lumpy profile. When i test ran it i was getting surges of speed about halfWay up the speedsteps….bloody awful. Incidently i had similar surges with all TCS decoders i tried. But then i whipped it into the 3MT I bought it for and profiled it without changing anything and I got a very straight profile and good speed running manually.
Conclusion it must be dependant on the motor it's running? Not very scientific I know but that's me. If it don't smoke and can crawl I am happy.
One day I will be as methodical as Brian (that is a sincere complement) is
and may end up with runnings as smooth as his.
I love this little RR&co group…so enlighning and friendly
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Pete.
ECOS2 with RR&Co Traincontroller and a load of other electronics so i can sit back and watch the trains go by.
Pete.
ECOS2 with RR&Co Traincontroller and a load of other electronics so i can sit back and watch the trains go by.
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With great difficulty!John, how did you get the stay alive capicitor into the 14xx.
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It kind of looks as though elf and safety have insisted on air bags and it inflated!
Agreed…………I find the surge a bit frustrating but I believe that can be resolved by eliminating the DC option.I have found the problem with the "stay alive" in steam locos is that the very locos you need it for ( small wheel base) are the ones where space is a premium. That said where I have managed to fit them they work well ( apart from the profiling issue - which maybe confined to the first batch.
Thanks Dave…..thet should be arriving any day now…..all destined for Panniers!Re Bachmann decoders ( accourding to railroad programmer they are ESU decoders)- I have found that the ones they sell now work fine as long as you don't want to set up speed steps. I have now profiled about 20 locos in RR&Co and have found the best results are obtained by setting CV2 and CV 5 , performing the speed profiling and then adjusting the acceleration and deceleration CV's before finally finally adjusting the brake compensation back in RR&Co.
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