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I have fitted a TCS M1 decoder to a N-gauge 'James' loco 2-6-0 tiny little thing.
Have completed a reset of the decoder and all is working fine.
I then set CV5 top speed volts to a value of 167, this gives a scale speed of approx 80miles an hour.
I then set CV5 to 168 this gave a top scale speed of 120miles an hour!!
Would this be correct?
I would have thought that a value of 1 couldn't make that much difference but actually watching the engine run, the difference is huge!
Any thoughts, anyone.
Oh and I went to Digitrains today......Viessmann commander.....WOW!!!
The colour screen is pin sharp, detail is amazing.
When you first turn it on the screen shows a default layout, touch any of the points or signals on the touch screen, brings up a little box at the top of the screen with different icons for point or signal position, touch one of these icons and the point or signal will change on the main layout display as well as those on the layout as long as it's all connected up to the relevant decoders that is.
Same with locos, press the loco button a pop-up box appears showing lots of buttons that turn the functions on/off, these look like the can all be programmed as well.
It all looks pretty good, shame that the right hand side touch screen buttons don't respond as it made it very limited as to what we could do...basically not very much at all.
Chris only got this Yesterday so bit of a learning curve to go through, this one is going back next week for replacement, not sure if it's a hardware or software fault but I have to say from first impressions this is going to be some bit of kit!
Lots of connections on the back, which I believe many throttles can be plugged into.
Will report back when Chris gets his fully functioning replacement and he lets me have a go
Have completed a reset of the decoder and all is working fine.
I then set CV5 top speed volts to a value of 167, this gives a scale speed of approx 80miles an hour.
I then set CV5 to 168 this gave a top scale speed of 120miles an hour!!
Would this be correct?
I would have thought that a value of 1 couldn't make that much difference but actually watching the engine run, the difference is huge!
Any thoughts, anyone.
Oh and I went to Digitrains today......Viessmann commander.....WOW!!!

The colour screen is pin sharp, detail is amazing.
When you first turn it on the screen shows a default layout, touch any of the points or signals on the touch screen, brings up a little box at the top of the screen with different icons for point or signal position, touch one of these icons and the point or signal will change on the main layout display as well as those on the layout as long as it's all connected up to the relevant decoders that is.
Same with locos, press the loco button a pop-up box appears showing lots of buttons that turn the functions on/off, these look like the can all be programmed as well.
It all looks pretty good, shame that the right hand side touch screen buttons don't respond as it made it very limited as to what we could do...basically not very much at all.
Chris only got this Yesterday so bit of a learning curve to go through, this one is going back next week for replacement, not sure if it's a hardware or software fault but I have to say from first impressions this is going to be some bit of kit!
Lots of connections on the back, which I believe many throttles can be plugged into.
Will report back when Chris gets his fully functioning replacement and he lets me have a go
