One for Alonso

Märklin 37596 Swiss Ae 8/14 with 15 carriage consist.

Enjoy

Can't tell you John, as he piked out last Friday night's meeting .....something about being very tired.

I told him he was PW and couldn't call himself an Aussie .

Hopefully he'll read this post and give you a reply.

Yes 50+ plus hours this week (down from last week) does take it out me and now I am looking at being posted to canberra in Jan 2013 so less time at the club now

Dusan

Very good videos of some excellent trains.
Hope to catch up with you guys at the club in April after harvest.
Regards to all.

What the..... Canberra??????

Sorry, I keep forgetting that yours isn't a 9 to 5 job

So Canberra with the whole clan?

Hi Dusan,

Enjoyed watching the video's.

Ian.

Excellent stuff.......more, more.......

BR

Glenn

Hi Dale,

Did the accident happen at work.

Ian.

Good stuff on the wiring issue being solved, smooth running for the train exhibition in June and ian will love the bannana wagons

I am still looking for a big clock for when the ICE trains will be running at the show too

Hi Dusan,

Great video.

Ian.

B1 liked it as well.

Used the standard transformer to power the CS2 (60V?).

Didn't think of using just a test track, we'll have to tackle that at the next meeting.

The owner of the Piko has an Uhlenbrock Intellibox and he couldn't register the loco on it. Not knowing much about that type of controller I couldn't give him much advice except that he should read his manual on how to register through DCC.

It was my first time registering through DCC on the CS2 and all I did was go to the CV, change the address to 6 (it was 3) and lo and behold it worked. We were so happy about that small success we didn't want to go any further in changing other settings in case we really stuffed it up (actually I didn't as it wasn't my loco - quit while you are ahead).

Come to think of it, while reading the instructions on the Piko it did mention that Piko used the Intellibox system for its locos - so it must be an Uhlenbrock chip.

Test track next meeting is a definite.

Actually Club Running afternoon during a working bee.

Dale decided to bring a couple of locos to run after we did some work on the club layout to get it ready for the June exibition.

The Mallet ran beautifully.






Dale you can run but you can't hide.

Yes, that's our eminent secretary Dale (acjacko) trying to hide from the camera.

He also tried his Red Streamlined 02, but I didn't have the heart to take a video of it as it just wouldn't run properly, if at all.

Well, we know where that's going back to.

Happy viewing.

I'm dissapointed with the outcome and its a bit of a mystery to me, everything works except the loco is not running.
yes its coming back to me and I'll have a look what is going on.

regards.,

John

Good video Dusan aka speilberg. As for the loco not functioning, I have e-mailed John who will be looking at the old girl again which I appreciate his understanding. Need some vids on the workings that have changed on the layout with the fiddle yards etc. I will ask that a speaking walk through like Ian';s walk throughs but with easier understandings being in full Engrish

Mallets always run lovely. Bad luck on the other.

NN

And this is what coming your way very soon: except the carriages

There is a vid attached of Dusan walking through the extension that has been added and how it is progressing since these were added by vieiwng his club running night video's. More video this coming Friday with the 6 locos returning from John for a run on the club layout with Leith in attendance and Dusan doing the video's

Will be an interesting video

John

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It is the latter Ian and will have to get a vid of the groaning and moaning when members have to crawl under

Another Friday night running trains.

The excitement was Leith and Dale's locos done by John (river 6109) and in particular Leith's BR 53 was to be given its maiden voyage around the layout.

Unlike the Titanic, after avoiding a few icebergs she finally set sail and completed the circuit (forwards and backwards) with great aplomb

Although we did have a real frazzling time in trying to register on the CS2. Finally working out that it should be address 54 in DCC. How did we do this you ask No frigging idea I just kept touching the screen until finally a message appeared - "would you like to upload address 54 into this engine" - Answer..........don't know, what do you say Leith? OK if I stuff it up?? Leith's reply, what the hell, go for it!!! And we did and this is what happened.


The rest of Dale's locos was an unmitigated disaster, with both of us in the end deciding that the only way we would get satisfaction was by having a beer. Which we did, and this led to another attempt where we had partial success in being able to run the trains, but with only limited sound. Back to the drawing board.







Then finally, the Insider Model 2011 Märklin 37601, DB E 17.






And to finish off............read a lot about the Swiss 2-6-2 tank on this site, so I thought I'd get one and see what the fuss was all about.

It arrived, I had a look at it in the box and thought, why did I buy this , then gave it a run and the answer came back immediately.....because it is a beautiful loco, great sounds and runs so bloody great

So here it is the SBB 'Habersack' Eb 3/5 - Märklin 37137






Until the next club running night, dovidjenja

Hi Dusan,

Enjoyed watching your other 2 video's, I like the tank Loco.

Ian.

Good stuff again Mr pres

Dusan, Dale

So what happened with the other locos, they were running before why the trouble this time ? or was it that bad, a night you like to forget.

John

John,

how the night transpired

Placed Leith's BR53 on the program track, asked what the address was and reply was 53. Tried to register the address (although as soon as I placed it on the program track the side lights came on) and thought it was done only to be proven wrong when placed on the running track.

Much talk, discussion, ideas bandied about and hard thinking led me to come up with the idea that maybe we might have to register the loco under DCC. Asked Leith's permission to do this, as I didn't want to screw up his loco. Permission granted.

I am not very experience in registering in DCC mode, as I had quite a few problems trying to register my ROCO V200's the previous week - they all had the regular address of 3 - eventually I got them registered but never worked out what the correct procedure was, I just kept hitting buttons until I got a result.

Sorry, I digress.

I tried the same method as the V200's and eventually I got a reply from the CS2 'would you like to upload address 54 into the loco?'. I hit the tick, we tried the loco on the layout and voila it worked, smiles and high fives all around. I asked Dale/Leith 54???? Dale explaining that you advised him that Leith's would be 53.1, and since you can't have that address, it must be 54

Then we tried Dale's loco, the 53. We all ready had it registered in the CS2 from previously, but when placed on track, no side lights and front lights when the light icon was pressed. Again, much teeth gnashing, discussions, hand wringing and again I came up with the idea of registering under DCC.

First we deleted the loco from the CS2, as Dale was worried that to many 53 address, no matter if they were Märklin or Ecos, might have an effect when registering in DCC mode.

Tried to register in DCC mode under address 53. This where it got confusing for me. I went through the usual process of registering on the CS2, ticking the decoder type as DCC then placing 53 as the address . I hit the light icon on the CS2 while on the program track. Nothing. I then went hit the CV button, which took me to the CV screen and found that the address shown was 3 . Clicked onto the address part, changed to 53, then wasn't to sure what to click next. I tried program button, no effect, then the read button, no effect. After that I tried any other button, procedure to change the address and got a continuous message 'information not uploaded into loco'

OK, delete loco from CS2 and tried the red 03. Went straight to DCC mode for address 3 only to find out that my ROCO V200 was all ready registered on that address. And both were working at the same time with a full complement of sound. Discussion, which loco do we delete, Dale said his, as mine was all ready registered.

OK, we would try to change the address for the 03. Delete the 03 from the CS2 and went through the same process as the 53, as explained above. Again couldn't get anything working and getting messages that information wouldn't upload. That's when finally decided, stuff this, it's time for a beer.

Before having the beer, came up with the idea, that like any computer, when you don't get the results you want while stuffing around, turn it off, wait awhile and start again.

Had our beer, more discussions, turned on the CS2 and this time we decided to register the locos, including the 50, under the Märklin decoder system. But, here's the rub, when we tried the 03, we somehow had changed the address from 3 to, if I remember correctly, to the last two digits of the running number of the loco when we were fiddling around in DCC mode. Go figure. We finally registered the 03, the 50 and the 53 under the Märklin system but only got four functions. Here's the odd thing, when placing on track the side lights came on, when hitting the light button, the front lights came on as well as the steam sound function.

So we decided that for the upcoming exhibition we would register the locos under Märklin and Dale would register them normally under his new ECos (which is coming).

We did find out one other problem, when registering Dale's 53, the front and side lights did not operate, but when placed into reverse, the back lights worked. Don't know if there was a loose wire (again)

Dale, would you agree that's what happened?

Sorry for the long explanation, but that's the order the events took place during the night.

I will be at the club again this Friday and I will take a video on the procedure that I do to register/change addresses in DCC mode on the CS2. I will then upload that on this site so that more experienced people who use CS2/ECos can critique and explain to me what I am doing wrong and what the correct procedure is. And we might have more luck in registering ECos type decoders on the CS2 for Dale.

Anyway, Leith's is registered in the club's CS2 and will be operating during the exhibition......yay

I'm getting a bit gun shy.

Let me find out how to register a DCC chip and change address on a CS2 and I'll get back to you, as I also own a CS2 (the latest incarnation)