QUOTE (Martin71 @ 17 Aug 2008, 23:11)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Hi Wiggy
I have another video of it but the problem is some of the electrical engineers watching made some shall we say, #@$% remarks about a certain controller.
It is the original controller and I did contact said supplier but they told me "no problem" with controller. Mind you that was over 15 months ago. Peak to Peak was somewhere between 40-50 v. Nice I just love complex "square waves". On the other hand the wireless controller had a real clean wave form and as per manufacturers said specifications.
I might actually send it back for update and stick it on the crow and see what happens..
m
***Why bother - it has not still not really improved in waveform last time I looked not long ago....
On the same theme, I had a new loco on hand today with a hornby decoder in it - a new BR stanier tank loco.
The new owner said try it, the H decoder is OK....
It ran back and forth on my test track four times - thats about ten metres total, and at nothing much speed wise... then it elected to use its "built in hornby feedback" and gave off smoke signals, literally, as it died a flaming death.
It was a newish chip, yellow dot on processor (yellow superceded the red dot in early may/late april... version 4 I think....)
coming on top of a new H Coronation that needed valve gear rebuilding after almost no running + a new never run H 8F which had a totally screwed up 8 pin plug (solder bridges across pins x 2) and wiring (crossed tender and loco wiring so LHS of loco was to RHS of tender) I have to wonder what hornby are doing - certainly they are not trying very hard.
Richard
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