Re: Throttle for YD7010
I am quite happy with the free Engine Driver on a $35 7 inch Android tablet
as a guest device. I also have a cheap simless cell phone and an 8 inch
tablet. 8 inches is a bit too much but good for the
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Bob Gamble
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#4533
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Re: Throttle for YD7010
Problem is the TCS UWT costs ?325 in the UK.? I guess that's worth paying if you have an exhibition layout but it's a bit steep for a home user.
The latest Z21 software for mobile phones is also no
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John Pollard
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#4532
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Re: Bus suppressors - extremely hot!
Some interesting thoughts here.
whilst I agree that the components that make up the suppressors are available at a fraction of the cost many of us would not be confident to build our own units.
The
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Dave
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#4531
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Re: YaMoRC Command Station
I just received my this week. Sadly It will have to wait until next weekend before I can connect it to the test layout. I¡¯m going through the manual in meantime.
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Mark
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#4530
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Re: Bus suppressors - extremely hot!
The necessity of snubber depends on the booster design. They are more
commonly needed on NCE boosters than Digitrax due to design trade-offs in
the booster design. I didn't think they were supposed to
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Alexander Wood
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#4529
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Re: Throttle for YD7010
Those TCS throttles are great. Very user friendly and easy to set up.
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nickgiordano100@...
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#4528
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Re: Bus suppressors - extremely hot!
Karst
A UK site that is to which people are oft referred when they start in DCC by the ¡®experts¡¯ on various fora is authored by Mark Gurries. He has a lot of detail on RC filters (also called
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Iain Morrison
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#4527
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Re: Bus suppressors - extremely hot!
Are those things the suppressor ?
AFAICS, the provide a 100W load on your DCC Bus... which I cannot believe seen the size of the resistor, that one takes maximum 5 Watts. Then we see a resistor with
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karst.drenth
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#4526
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Re: Bus suppressors - extremely hot!
Hahahah....? but did not really mean that ;)
I am seriously interested what people were smoking, thinking a DCC "bus" should be terminated with some kind of suppressor...
Greets,
Karst
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karst.drenth
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#4525
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Re: Throttle for YD7010
Iain,
This exact topic has come up repeatedly in the MRH forum. While European
model railway exhibitions are more dense than American train shows, train
shows here are nonetheless notorious for
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Alexander Wood
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#4524
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Re: Throttle for YD7010
If you exhibit your model railway, be very wary of wireless handsets. At large exhibitions where lots of people are wandering about with phones trying to find networks to attach to, and other
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Iain Morrison
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#4523
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Re: Throttle for YD7010
DCC should have wireless throttles. The only reason wired throttles exist
is because the technology for wireless throttles wasn't there in 1993 when
DCC was first on the market.
For general purpose
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Alexander Wood
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#4522
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Throttle for YD7010
What would be a recommended wireless / IR throttle for YD7010? Any reason to go with wired over wireless throttle?
Thank you.
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Ivan Bondy
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#4521
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Re: Bus suppressors - extremely hot!
Karst
¡°What are those Things suppose to suppress ? ¡°
The suppress your wallet¡¯s ability to buy anything given the price that is charged for them by a UK company compared to the actual cost
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Iain Morrison
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#4520
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Re: Bus suppressors - extremely hot!
What are those Things suppose to suppress ?
anything in general getting Hot, means dissipation of expensive DCC current ?
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karst.drenth
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#4519
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New DCC Book
For those that have been asking when will my book be out or just want something tangible, my book is now out!
This book explains the basics of DCC systems and components, provides guidelines for
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Allan AE2V
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#4518
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Re: YaMoRC Command Station
Ryan, any idea when you will have YD7010 in stock?
Ivan
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Ivan Bondy
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#4517
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Bus suppressors - extremely hot!
I have recently installed two DCC Concepts Bus Suppressors on my layout. I have 2 power zones, each supplied by a Digikeijs Digiboost, with one suppressor on each zone.
I use a track feed from a Z21
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Dave
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#4516
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Re: Loconet compatibility with DR5000 and YD7001
It was a Digitrax BXPA1 Loconet DCC Auto reverse with detection.
It excepted the board I.D. ok. But never reported occupancy high or low over Loconet.
This was monitored with the jmri Loconet monitor
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Alec Hudson
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#4515
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Re: Loconet compatibility with DR5000 and YD7001
No problem, can happen ?
But I start to be curious WHAT did not work, and WHICH module we are talking about.
As i wrote below, it IS known that some/many Digitrax modules cannot cope with RailCom
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karst.drenth
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#4514
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