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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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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 ...
/blog/yeovil-town/2739.htm
Last night saw the track faults on
Yeovil Town just about sorted (one minor stretch left). We were then able to run a class 08 shunter up and down all the tracks.
It's little milestones like th...
/blog/yeovil-town/717.htm
Ok, so
Yeovil Town did not quite work correctly last night...
We got someone to clean the track and they were a bit too enthusiastic and the track cleaner was not up to the job so we ended up with li...
/blog/yeovil-town/791.htm
Last Saturday on the
Yeovil Town layout saw yet another milestone with a ZTC 304 and CDU working 4 of the H&M points as though they were made for each other. Some very simple wiring and two ...
/blog/yeovil-town/805.htm
As a software engineer I should have know better. Once
Yeovil Town had been fitted with DCC Accessory Decoders and CDUs we could not only operate each point from a common ZTC 511 (Sort of signal...
/blog/yeovil-town/829.htm
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...
/blog/yeovil-town/855.htm
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...
/blog/yeovil-town/876.htm
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...
/blog/yeovil-town/877.htm
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...
/blog/yeovil-town/900.htm