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  1. DJ Dangerous
    So as opposed to giving both locos the same address, which is a basic or universal consist (?), your controller acknowledges the advanced consist and sends the same signal to both addresses?
  2. DJ Dangerous
    What is an Advanced Consist?
  3. DJ Dangerous
    That is breathtaking! You even have fans installed at the back!
  4. DJ Dangerous
    I saw a video of Thorne Yard on YouTube. Are they tiny little surface mounted point motors in the video?
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    I believe that block sections are required if one wants to take beginners DCC to the next level, as per @murphaph's test loop, and droppers required for current / occupancy detectors, so I'm not sure that the wiring is any simpler. I think that it was @warb's Barrow Street where I saw a photo of a massive amount of DCC control equipment and cabling, but I'm not sure. But this thread is not about that... Yet! Just to try help frightened people like me make the leap from DC to DCC. The ability to double-head trains and to run locos right up to one another with no isolation rails must look and feel awesome!
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    After typing something on the A Class sound thread, I thought that maybe other people could benefit from the few simple things that I've learned about DCC, while preparing to make the transition from DC to DCC. It seems like such a minefield, sounds incredibly expensive, and when people write about it on here, they tend to assume that everybody knows what they mean when mumbling about CV's and other crazy stuff. From speaking with @murphaph, who is quite the DCC guru, and reading posts from @irishthump and @NIRCLASS80, there are cheap and simple options for making the progression from DC to DCC, such as using a LokProgrammer (€150 EURO or so) and some very basic LokPilot chips (about €24 EURO each). These chips only offer four functions, and don't offer sound, but do mean that your DC locos will become DCC locos without spending €100 plus per loco. This is the route that I intend taking, slowly, with a mix of some DC lines and some DCC lines, gradually moving to all DCC. I have a Bachmann DCC set which I'll steal the controller from. It only has ten functions, so I'll miss out on any other functions on the pre-programmed chips for now. I'll eventually upgrade to a better DCC controller, but it will facilitate the transition with minimal cost. Sorry for embedding URL's to Spanish retailers, but they were my bookmarked ones. The reference numbers will be the same for the LokProgrammer and LokPilot chips so you can find them on eBay or wherever. If anybody would like to add to this thread, in simple terms, aimed at begineers, please do so! You can see @murphaph's test loop by clicking here. The way he has set up RocRail to run his locos is breathtaking. You can see @irishthump's video on how he set up the new Murphy Models 121 Class decoder by clicking here.
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    I have a Bachmann DCC set which I'll steal the controller from. It only has ten functions, so I'll miss out on any other functions on the pre-programmed chips for now. I'll eventually upgrade to a better DCC controller, but it will facilitate the transition with minimal cost, so I can keep buying Ballast wagons... Sorry for embedding URL's to Spanish retailers, but they were my bookmarked ones. The reference numbers will be the same for the LokProgrammer and LokPilot chips so you can find them on eBay or wherever.
  8. DJ Dangerous
    Are you going to keep it a secret which one?
  9. DJ Dangerous
    That sounds like a challenge! From speaking with @murphaph, there are cheaper options for making the progression from DC to DCC, such as using a LokProgrammer (€150 EURO or so) and some very basic LokPilot chips (about €24 EURO each). These chips only offer four functions, and don't offer sound, but do mean that your DC locos will become DCC locos, so you CAN enjoy the lovely DCC sound and functionality of the new A Class running alongside them! This is the route that I intend taking, slowly, with a mix of DC lines and some DCC lines, gradually moving to all DCC.
  10. DJ Dangerous
    Same for the 121's, don't forget them!
  11. DJ Dangerous
    Wow, very very nice. Next year is gonna be another expensive one, but well worth it!
  12. DJ Dangerous
    No harm in highlighting that the Spoil and Weedspray loads can be removed and replaced with @Arran's C-Rail containers of choice, effectively making them 42' Container Liners.
  13. DJ Dangerous
    For those of us abroad, buying locally probably makes more sense from an environmental point of view. Once we're spending more than we can afford with Murphy Models and IRM, supporting Irish sellers over foreign ones, we're already doing our bit. Until the money runs out!
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    Much as that might sound hilarious, I can tell you that from the perspective of anybody in the same position as Murph and I, it rings true. The time, effort and money that we have both been pouring into catching up, plus the disappointments along the way when things aren't as described, makes the real cost at least twice what it would have been, if not more, for many of the models that we've tracked down. We are so lucky to be involved in the hobby right now, and to have made as much progress as we have personally with what we have caught up on. Any modellers of the Irish scene today are luckier than ever, literally speaking, with the RTR options that we have seen, and are likely to see. This is a weekend to celebrate. IRM have survived five years in what must have seemed like a dark, deep, chasm in mid 2015, have offered too many amazing models to list, have upped the bar every time, with more detail, technical improvements, streamlined operations, never mind conquering the UK market, and now, a week after their fifth birthday, they launch thirteen new packs in one day! That has to be their biggest launch, yet. Every launch will delight some and disappoint some, as everybody has their own preferences, but I for one think that this weekend is one to sit back and congratulate IRM, and thank them for what they have done for all of us. Everything will come with time. Take a bow, lads, take a bow.
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    I'd say it's down to the practicalitites of production. Having ten different running numbers for the Taras, twelve different running numbers for the Gypsums, and at least 32 different running numbers for the P42 Flats, has to be more than any other manufacturer has offered, let alone for the Irish scene, and such a young manufacturer, too! As we have already seen, every extra run so far, Bubbles, Flats and Ballasts, has had new running numbers, so it seems obvious that IRM operate in that way. The next run of red Taras in a few years time will have new numbers, I'm sure, but I'd guess that eight new numbers would be more likely than twelve. If the running numbers are that important, re-numbering or weathering out some of the numbers must also be an option.
  16. DJ Dangerous
    Yup, IR livery Ploughs and Bundles gone, but there are still loads of IR livery Ballast wagons available outside of the bundle, and €100 per pack is great value! I've never seen the IRM site so frantic, even when the Container Liners were released, it's like a frenzy of purchase pop-ups today!
  17. DJ Dangerous
    Were the original run of Ballasts IE livery? I have one pack of the original ones procured second-hand through the forum, and I'm assuming because of the yellow wheels, and todays IE's being Packs D, E and F rather than A, B and C, that this is the case.
  18. DJ Dangerous
    Oh, don't worry, I've already ordered mine!
  19. DJ Dangerous
    I was also wondering will the Bundle offers change when those last few IR Plough vans are out of stock? There were only 30 left at the start of the week!
  20. DJ Dangerous
    Cross-posting with @Warbonnet, but it's an amazing enough announcement to warrant being published twice!
  21. DJ Dangerous
    Just awesome! These are gonna look so amazing behind the 121's and the A's! I think that it's time to sell my spare kidney...
  22. DJ Dangerous
    As per the title, FREE Murphy Models Herpa Mercedes Sprinter Vans from Marks Models! https://www.facebook.com/MRSIExpo/posts/106002337969104?__tn__=-R
  23. DJ Dangerous
    Surely you mean Zero 1, the SuperTrain of control systems?
  24. DJ Dangerous
    Is that a grey 2016+ 071 in the background??? Modern image??? I'll bet that you have a secret rake of yellow Spoils to run with it when nobody is watching!
  25. DJ Dangerous
    What a lovely dispay of motive power! Is that NIR 208 a Lima or Murphy one?
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