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Up in a puff of smoke!

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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Getting there...

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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Smoking electronics and floods...

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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Out with the old, in with the new

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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Thanks to Dave Sapp

Well after a bit of head scratching last night at the club, Dave came along and pointed out the error of our ways.  We were looking at the three-way point wiring diagram at face value and should ...
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Opps!

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...
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Gee Wiz...

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 ...
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Egg on Face!

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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Yahoo!

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...
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ZTC have gone away

The demise of ZTC as reported by their website and our forum (see here) has been a blow. Their 4007 decoder was a great little decoder that has helped force the market to reduce costs and i...
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