BR W1 Class 60700 - Nick Dunhill's Workbench

[Scale7JB]

Nick, when I build tender engines, I put all the electrical gubbins in the tender and then run through on a multi-plug. Then only needs to be the motor and speaker in the loco itself.

Plus a couple of servo's of course..

JB.

 

[Nick Dunhill]

Yep you're all right, the XL decoder sits in the tender with the Stay-Alive board and the speaker and smoke unit (and it's board) in the loco. With the electric lighting to be considered it means I need a pretty substantial loom between the loco and tender and it (or they) interfere with Bissel and Cartazzi truck. I end up chopping off a load of the pipework that should be there to allow access for the electronic wire. Now I'm a builder and it seems wrong to do that. Surely an XL chip doesn't need to be that big, and as for smoke units.........

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Is it an ESU Loksound XL decoder? Just confused as the 'stay alive' is an integral part of the decoder so there is no need for a separate one.

An ESU Loksound L rather than a XL would have sufficed in this loco.

Both the latest Loksound 5 L and 5 XL have an integral 'stay alive' function.

 

[Richard Spoors]

Nick's first W1 is a commission from yours truly. I chose the decoder, 'stayalive' and speaker. The decoder would have been a Loksound L V5, however the sound file (an A4) was only available at the time of purchase in a L V4. Had I fully appreciated Nick was going to add pickups from the tender, I might have left the 'stayalive' off the board.
Richard

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Thank you for the information Richard, all is now clear regarding the DCC equipment.

I've recently upgraded my Lokprogrammer to V5 recently and will experiment when I acquire aV5 decoder as I believe the V4 sound profiles can be uploaded to V5 decoder without conversion unlike V3 to V4.

 

[Nick Dunhill]

Well here's one of the W1s in it's new home.

Thanks to Stuart Tebbett, Richard Spoors, Mick Davies, Mick Roffe and the rest of the Finney7 co-op. Rob De Boer, Dave Andrews, Warren Haywood, DLOS, Tony Geary, Diane Carney and John Ryan, and everyone who has shared photos, help and advice.

 

[Scale7JB]

I'm surprised just how much more imposting that is compared to an A4.

Fantastic model

JB.

 

[mickoo]

It's a big engine!