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 friendlythumbs

[user=540]gdaysydney[/user] wrote:

 John,  how did you get the stay alive capicitor into the 14xx. 

With great difficulty!


It kind of looks as though elf and safety have insisted on air bags and it inflated!

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.

Agreed…………I find the surge a bit frustrating but I believe that can be resolved by eliminating the DC option.

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.

Thanks Dave…..thet should be arriving any day now…..all destined for Panniers!