Spring time = time to start a garden railway

[schluss]

Hi ,

the proof of concept has shown some problems with the clearance diameter/railway loading gauge on the right side. so the tracks have to be moved slightly.
That led to more tracks to be sawed.

Another problem: I thought that I could use WAGO clambs with 5 connectors, but having 4 wires for the electrical loop around the circuit and two wires going to the rails... seems to be in total 6 wires.......

So just another stop at the DIY-store and purchased now WAGO-clambs with 8 connectors, unfortunately they are only sold in sets of 50 pieces.......

Let´s hope for good and dry weather during fall to finish the mechanical work on the tracks.

Regards
schluss

the pictures are showing the 5-WAGO-clambs

[schluss]

Hi,

the weather was good and not too many other things to do.....
so a few hours for the train.

Today the master feeding point for the power supply to the tracks has been installed.

The whole layout will have 8 feeding points.

The master point gets the power from the Massoth central unit.

This point is installed in a bigger plastic case which found its place on a post of the garden fence.


The installation works in principle, but it seems that I have now problems with the loco decoders or its programming. Last year every thing was working fine with the old LGB digital central station, but with the Massoth supply every loco is doing what she wants...

[schluss]

Only two pictures from last weekend:


picture 1:  I had forgotten that a train needs a power supply and that the layout is at the different end of our garden and that there is no mains in the wooden garden house....
So I had to place a power cable the whole way from the garage to the garden house into the earth....

picture 2: The only train which has been on the track....

Regards
schluss

[Giorginetto]

Very nice sir !!! very nice indeed !!! please post more pictures with more locos. More locos !!! 

[schluss]

A small video of 3,5 minutes ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnXNgQomX-0

Videolink updated

[playmofire]

Very nice trip.  Does this mean all the control problems are sorted out?

[schluss]

Not all problems are sorted out, but I can see progress and I have an idea how to solve them.

Some are caused by dirt on the track, some belonging to missing feeding points to the track.

Analog works fine, digital shows more problems.

The major problem was the change of the digital master station. The old master could only handle 14 steps of speed, the new one up to 128.
I am usingg 28 steps now, this made the change in every decoder necessary.
And also the new digital master has got a major firmware upgrade.


 

Very nice trip.  Does this mean all the control problems are sorted out?

[Giorginetto]

Very nice Schull , very nice sire !!! if the weather permits i will set up some stuff on saturday , your outdoor set up proves very inspirational and motivating sir !!!! 

[zugpferdchen]

Thank you for the video!
(pity that it was saved somewhat distorted (everything seems to be too high). The ratio of the video must be changed.)


Which decoder is in the BR 218?

[schluss]

It´s an Uhlenbrock 77500 and a 32100 for the sound.

Which decoder is in the BR 218?