Heather Kay
Western Thunderer
Heather,
brake shoes or article!
Shoes, every time. What else would you expect a girl to say?
I was only prodding gently, as I’m pretty sure the new editor is not a WT member.
Heather,
brake shoes or article!
I would definitely be interested in some photos of the layout and build process.
Folks: don't Google "back end" unless you're prepared for the results!
Matt
Hooray, you got the Thompson lav comp that I spent most of the previous week rushing to get finished.
JB.
A lovely show and I really enjoyed Love Lane, had a chat with another big lad, sharing many common ideas.
On the WiFi channel I have used it on Newhurst and other layouts with ECOS, but with the channel set randomly high and it seems to work well that way, worth being familiar with the process changes before shows for speedy channel hopping.
From my superficial overview it looks a great system to use, unfortunately I have no experience of it but does it have an option to connect via bluetooth? Alternatively have you fixed on a 5GHz wifi connection? It seems that 2.4GHz wifi is competing not only with other wifi signals but also bluetooth and microwave etc. I've not delved into the various comms systems but my understanding is that bluetooth pairing is less susceptible to interference than wifi and the other factor is that 2.4GHz wifi is a noisy environment with bluetooth and microwave in the same band.Touchcab is too good to not use. An altenative is to remove the fuses on all the other WiFis in the hall
We were exhibiting at the York Exhibition at Easter and had similar WiFi problems. It is nothing to do with Touchcab or any similar system but rather down to competing signals from too many routers in a relatively small area. For us it was worse at one end of the layout than the other. It took me awhile to figure out that the worse end was open to the roof and was picking up interference from the mezzanine floors above. The covered end was more sheltered as the ceiling above gave some blocking protection. We were not the only ones though as others using this technology were also having problems.Adrian,
the straight answer is that I haven't the faintest idea, they just specified a WiFi router that feeds into the Lenz USB device. I'll go and ask the guys who own Touchcab.
Competing signals on a limited number of channels seems to be one of the technical problems of battery R/C control. Only a LSWR loco could get away with using the pink channel.
Simon