dcc

Hello there, after designing and building many layout which have been subsequently dismantled, I thought I would give it another try and here I am with a fresh start. After returning to the hobby only about a month ago, I started drawing up plans on what would become a southern region terminus...

This is really to act as a guide if you wish to use your favourite 21 pin decoder in some of the later RTR releases. The Dapol O scale 08 being such an example. It is a slight variation of my reply in the Dapol 08 thread but may become relevant as further O scale RTR locos are released...

Just a simple one-liner, "you can get better speakers" - although "better" than what is not clear. A rare outing of a favourite diesel and the sound is burbling nicely. The host for the day offers the thought that maybe a different speaker might be worth considering - fair comment, just how do...

Hi all Following a conversation with a visitor at Telford 2015 regarding difficulties with the SPROG decoder programmer and Windows 10 I thought it was about time I tested it on my laptop which upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10. I have an early version of SPROG II and not SPROG II version...

Not sure if this should go here, but here goes, I've just acquired my first sound fitted DCC loco, I knew before I got it there might be some issues, the description was sound but no movement and on DC no movement at all.....but I kinda expected that last bit LOL, having said that, the box and...

So we have a single head, two aspect, colour light signal with red / green LEDs for illumination (design by @Pete Harvey and kit from C&L Finescale)... we are thinking that operating the signal from DCC ought to be possible. I have looked at the range of decoders on the DCC Supplies web site...

I run all my Heljan and now some of my JLTRT locos with one sound chip either a Loksound or the XL version some have 3.5s and others are version 4, it powers both motors wired in parallel. CV 56 was set to maximum on all the decoders I have on the version 4s this was based on their auto setup...