Alan564017

I have a Class C, came from across the pond DCC ready. Initially I fitted a bachmann 4 function chip (had one to spare) and it kangarooed around the track. So then I tried a bog standard hornby chip, it worked, it was fine at moderate and fast speeds but running it slowly was painful. It 'grinds' , its a horrible noise and the sensitivity at slow speeds is terrible compared to MM models. So I replaced that with a hornby sapphire chip, a little better but slow speeds are not great. Also the acceleration to poor, it takes a while to work its way up to a desired speed. Anybody got any ideas as to what CV settings are required to remedy both issues? While im on a rant, it stalls over points and x crossings at slow speeds, I presume this is the insul frog-v-electro frog issue.

Layout packed away now, in good time time to watch a Kilkenny man (murphy) play John Shelby in the second round of the snooker and doing very well against him as I type.

thanks for all the comments and encouragement. The UK snooker championship is starting soon so everything will have to be boxed up probably at the week end.

Recently new to this site and I thought id share some photos (hope they uploaded successfully). Its not a permanent layout, it shares an attic room with my sons snooker table, so every three months of so its put together for a few weeks. It all dis-assembles and fits in a storage space. Half the fun is figuring out the layout, one of the main constraints is the point operation, they all have to reached manually while standing in the cut out. Over the last few years i've 'irish-ised' the stock and hope to complete this over the next year. Future plans are to make it permanent (hopefully larger, when someone goes to college next year!!) loosely based on some industrial/freight environment, motorise all the points, get a 121, figure out how to do buildings and scenery. So I should be here for the next 15 to 20 years or so.

Thanks guys for the responses. I'm using a 4 function chip, so that may be the problem, i'll try F8 and see what happens. On the instructions in the MM box its says F3 and F4 are the respective cab lights.

Bought one a few weeks ago, only now getting to try it out. As everybody knows they are absolutely fabulous. I put in a 4 pin chip and its runs fab, but cant seem to get the cab lights working, tried F3 and F4 but no joy. Any ideas? (hornby elite controller).