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Eh......... NO!

Some recent discussion on deficiencies of a 4 function decoder with a 071 class that amounts to the same problem you're having http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/4357-4-function-decoder

Well, 800 is named for the warrior Queen of Connaught and so would your daughter, so no lie! My niece is Maedhbh...... they do love Irish names at passport control, y'know... Aoife, Siobhan etc.

=)) Very good, definitely worthy of 9" News

No, it's west, to be sure, but …..further than you think http://www.villageofinnisfree.ca

It's a long time since I heard that, Dave. Still good.

It was definitely not a local problem yesterday. Had to email BK to let him know. Working well today though

Ah sure, 'twas only the wan time. Ne'r to be repeated. I'm sure……... Money wasted and not invested

Fantastic if it comes to fruition! Models have been produced by other preservation societies like GWR, although i Can;t comment on whether they are a significant source of income http://www.easycatalog.net/home/steamshop/

That's a very late start to the day, Jim!………. well, I suppose you're on GMT so you're getting up with the rest of us here

I'm pretty sure that Apple's voice recognition software (which requires a radiotelephony signal, it's not on the phone) is located at the NSA central server:rolleyes:

Noel, you really need to think about making the jump to DCC on the old chronograph there;)

And it still looks good!

The subtlety of the various liveries is still a process in evolution let alone introducing more fictitious liveries:o

John, something similar was done with the crowd-funding poll and not a lot of punters prepared to buy for sure. Many argued that thread was not that useful as it did not attempt to quantify how many of each loco people would buy, which is what Noel is trying to do here, I think. Many suggested starting with a small crowd-fuinded wagon as an alternative but I'm not sure that anyone has been willing/able to take that on. I think this thread has merit as it attempts to quantify the degree of interest in popular diesels. Some have declared it invalid as a market research tool and they may be right. However, no one has stated how SF or MM do their market research (I know no-one polled me). I am glad so many have taken the 5 minutes it takes to fill it out. However, I think we are dependent on the whim of one of two of the larger vendors of Irish outline as what comes on the market, if at all.

They're a great job, David. You've really outdone yourself with them

I think you hit the nail on the head. If you were to think of think of prototypical running would you really hear the loco more than 400ft away except the maybe the horn or on high rpm output when on a grade etc?

I think they look great, IT. Presumably they're resprays from the original Lima IE coaches?

Or maybe if there are problems with some of the coaches they do not want to get involved with the product. I had noticed that Hattons did not seem to stock the Mk2ds and their stocks of MM seem to be dwindling, so maybe Blaine is right. They are still listed as a stockist on MM website but that is also frequently out of date. Where is your info from Blaine?

Hi Noel, Basically you are just suggesting that the interface with the decoders needs to be improved from the current system which uses CVs and labels ( or lack thereof) which means little to the end-user, to a system which is more user-friendly. If you were to transition to a Bluetooth interface would you not just be changing the mechanism from a physical pulsed current through the rails to a radio telephony signal direct to the decoder? I can certainly see how that would be more convenient but unless you also wanted to move to battery driven locomotives you would still need something to power them, so effectively you would be moving back to 'DC' or some sort of alternating current but with no pulsed DCC signals within it. All rails and branches etc. live for current pick up. Would this be substantially better then the present DCC systems with programming on the main? I can see however that it would allow you to use common smart phones and tablets etc. rubbing having to invest in additional cabs. Personally I think Bluetooth can be a pretty fiddly technology also although version 3.0 is certainly better and faster. I am not saying I am against this technology I just think that an improved user interface for DCC would also help right now.

You're on a roll, Leslie. Go for it!

Would you like to post a pic of an 80 class so that we can see what you've got planned?

Any photos of a completed kit or rtr?

Did mine too a couple of minutes after you posted it! Good luck with it!!

Good afternoon, folks. Thanks very much to the several of you who all chipped in with advice. This has been very informative and definitely food for thought. I should have probably opened a separate thread when I asked the question. Certainly a great discussion and great advice. Thank you very much!