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wire-wound rotating bobbin core of electic
motors used in models.
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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 ...
/blog/yeovil-town/2623.htm
After changing a TT300 point motor in the goods yard in November which appeared to male before break on the micro-switch we discovered that we have a further 3 units causing the same fault in the fidd...
/blog/yeovil-town/3362.htm
Capacitor Discharge Unit: stores energy to give a burst of power for changing point
motors.
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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. ...
/blog/yeovil-town/out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new.htm
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 ...
/blog/yeovil-town/504.htm
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
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. ...
/blog/yeovil-town/faster-routes.htm
A locomotive powered by a diesel engine which uses an electric transmission system to transfer the power from the engine to the locomotive wheels. Essentially the engine is linked to an alternat...
/glossary/660.htm
A locomotive powered by electric current which can be picked up from either a 3rd rail or overhead wire. The current is used to drive conventional electric traction
motors linked to the driving ...
/glossary/666.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
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
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 ...
/blog/yeovil-town/progress-tracked.htm
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 ...
/blog/yeovil-town/landslip-at-yeovil-town.htm
After much deliberation it was decided to construct a fiddle yard for Yeovil Town so that club members could run OO stock on club nights and the layout would then be a fully fledged exhibition layout....
/yeovil-town/fiddle-yard-construction.htm