I went to Michael’s today and bought a 2b pencil, and “drew” on about 8 inches of rail. I ran my loco over it a few times, repeated the application, ran down a siding, and kept repeating until all rails were ran down at least twice. With DCC, and the […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
As you may have read, it appears that I messed up installing my first DCC decoder, by not insulating it properly from the frame. Dave at TCS was kind enough to inform me that the speed controller was burnt out due to a short. Not only did they send me […]
Wow, TCS is even better than I thought
Last week I sent in my TCS CN-GP decoder for warranty after letting out the factory smoke. They are not only replacing the decoder with a new one, they also informed me that the issue was a short that fried the speed controller.
Got to love TCS…
I have been trying to figure out different CV’s. Today I got the Mars light effect to work! but it was for the rear light, and I set it per TCS for front only. I put the decoder in backwards! the other issue is that the loco runs in reverse, […]
more DCC lessons
This morning, I hardwired my first decoder, milled the Kato/Atlas GP35 frame, and wired the PowerCab into the layout (still have to cut the hole in the fascia to mount it). As soon as the Powercab came online, my Geep took off at Run 8. I did some research, discovered […]
DCC fun….
OK, let’s make it the $1000 layout. I picked up a NCE Powercab and a TCS CN-GP decoder. I knew that they were small, but holy snotballs, that decoder is tiny. I wound up today getting a new soldering station and will attempt my first DCC install soon (maybe later […]