Yeovil Town
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phowes | 
06th Jun 2014 at 10:57 | 1287 views
There is nothing like an Open day deadline to concentrate efforts on a layout!
The problem with the point motors being out of sync has been fixed with some programming. The new temporary track ...
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phowes | 17th Mar 2014 at 12:59 | 1317 views
Not some kind of fight at the Yeovil Town layout but a new bit of kit that will help the viewer and user experience.
Yes, guessed right, it's a vacuum cleaner. Much under rated we are fin...
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phowes | 29th Jan 2014 at 12:31 | 1253 views
Whilst squeezed into the old building CS1 Yeovil Town was difficult to operate with multiple operators due to the narrow width at the control desk area. There was just no room to pass with...
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phowes | 10th Oct 2013 at 12:46 | 1277 views
After much deliberation between members we have been allocated a new space in the new clubhouse. The original plan for layouts was one where the larger layouts used as few lights as possible so ...
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phowes | 02nd Jun 2013 at 22:19 | 1311 views
After laying a 24 slab patio at the end of the garden we traveled to the club house to continue with construction of brick sided platform. This is a narrow platform and is primarily used for arr...
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phowes | 28th May 2013 at 11:30 | 1273 views
One of the snags from running during Open Day yesterday was that route setting took too long. We use a ZTC 511 to which I have installed my own extended memory EEPROM a few years ago now. ...
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phowes | 13th Jul 2012 at 00:49 | 1599 views
Ok, I put my hands up. When we tested the currupt locomotives on the rolling road we used the main ZTC 511 controller (on the programming track). They ran ok in both directions and then it...
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phowes | 09th Jul 2012 at 00:59 | 1546 views
After fixing the issue of point motors doingtheir own thing when they want to! We tested the main track with several different types of locomotive;
An Intercity 125 with a full rake of coaches
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phowes | 07th Jun 2012 at 14:49 | 4220 views
After fitting the Traintronics TT300 slow motion DCC point motors to the layout we carried out some tests. The motors moved well for most of the time but whenever the track had a short they all ...
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phowes | 05th Mar 2012 at 22:30 | 1569 views
It's been a long time since I have posted anything here about Yeovil Town, hence the silent bit in the title!
Basically the layout was started nearly 30 years ago and although the fiddle yard is all ...
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phowes | 04th Jul 2011 at 00:11 | 1973 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 | 2276 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 | 1663 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 | 1577 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 | 1478 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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