Yeovil Town
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phowes | 
04th Jul 2011 at 00:11 | 372 views
It has finally happened. Yeovil Town today had it's first session with computer control. We have much work to do on splitting the layout up into blocks but at the mo just operating points and ru...
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phowes | 03rd Apr 2011 at 00:23 | 676 views
Finding this web site after searching for his own company Roger has taken a shine to the Yeovil Town project and decided to get stuck in with Yeovil Town. With a project this size there will alw...
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phowes | 25th Feb 2011 at 01:06 | 260 views
We are on the last pice of fiddle yard track wiring and the end boards have been upturned to wire them up. We have had slow but steady progress recently as my hallway needed major domestic work ...
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phowes | 09th Dec 2010 at 13:03 | 162 views
The answer must be yes because last night it was freezing at the club house and I had to run the DCC track and accessories to test the new bus bar extensions I fitted so we can now have 7 hand control...
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phowes | 08th Nov 2010 at 13:18 | 123 views
After a long period of getting our heads down we have not only completed and tested the fiddle yard but also the existing boards and track of the main layout.
I am currently working on a hand built p...
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phowes | 04th Jan 2010 at 11:40 | 374 views
Work has started on the fiddle yard for Yeovil Town. It will consist of four 2ft x 6ft boards with a short 1/2 metre board in the centre. The two end boards will house the points and DCC a...
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phowes | 12th Nov 2009 at 08:55 | 210 views
After replacing a couple of H&M point motors the base board was replaced. The alignment proved a problem and after much investigation one track was deemed to be at fault. It was by an ...
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phowes | 26th Oct 2009 at 08:56 | 200 views
It's started...
We have purchased the first bits of hardware for the the fiddle yard. Yeovil Town will eventually become a very useful club layout where we can run complete trains to and from a...
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phowes | 07th Sep 2009 at 12:12 | 259 views
Several H&M point motors have been intermittent in their operation after a couple of months standing still. As Yeovil Town is exhibition standard we can't have any unreliable aspects. ...
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phowes | 09th Jun 2009 at 13:49 | 255 views
With work progressing well on structures for Yeovil town (our OO faithful fine-scale reproduction of Yeovil Town Station) efforts have been turned to the last scenic board which encompasses the last f...
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phowes | 18th May 2009 at 13:46 | 250 views
When you don't have the correct devices to convert a DCC accessory decoder for use with slow motion point motors then you resort to using a bunch of resistors (who has 2 watt resistors hanging around?...
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phowes | 18th Dec 2008 at 14:43 | 310 views
Well I refitted the accessory decoders to Yeovil Town yesterday one by one and the last one failed on one H&M motor (all the others worked). When I checked it out I found that we had a direct shor...
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phowes | 11th Dec 2008 at 12:32 | 225 views
Last night at the club we tracked down the remaining fault with the DCC accessories. The decoders had become scrambled when the CDU failed (or visa versa!). I am back in at the weeke...
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phowes | 09th Dec 2008 at 09:47 | 235 views
Well after lots of hours of automatic control the system of Yeovil Town failed. We tried swapping out the ZTC controllers, the Power Booster, the leads etc. and could not track it down. Th...
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phowes | 17th Nov 2008 at 20:49 | 284 views
Yeovil Town has seen some impressive demonstration running due to an extra memory chip being added to the ZTC 511. We now have 46 preset routes which work amazingly well. A loco can be tak...
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