Hi All

After much deliberation, yesterday I finally ordered a Marklin Mobile Vision 26020 set from a dealer I trust on Ebay.
The price was finally about right I think, Euro 379,90, which at current exchange rates means I've landed it for GBP 347 including shipping.

Gaugemaster have the 26001 in stock for a laughable GBP 895 which is more than the Euro 849 SRP.

As far as I can tell the 26001 set was launched in late 2008 at Euro 849 and presumably did not sell, so then was 'rebranded' in 2009 with MHI 20 Year logos as 26020 with a reduced SRP of Euro 499.

Are there any other differences between the two sets?

Did any other members purchase one of these? If anyone is interested the same seller has just relisted one for the same price of Euro 379,90, he also has one on 'Buy It Now' for Euro 499.See link below.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Ma...&hash=item439f828778

It should be here in about a week so I will report back then.

Best Regards
Ashley

Hello DT,

do not forget, in this trainset there is not only 1 normal camera as you linked. You have display glasses (which cost more than 100Euro on the market) with movement sensors. if you turn your head while you a wearing the glasses, the camera on the train will move left right to look besides the track

Hello Ashley,

as far as I know there is no difference between the 2 trainsets. For the first set they just set the price too high. The MHI limited edition has lower price to get them out of the stock.

In the Märklin Museum they have plenty of this sets at 399 Euro (26020) and 499 Euro (26001) in the "second choice" shop.

For me the price is still too high for the usage of this train. Once you will get it, you will let it turn on your layout, but I can immagine that after 20-30 turns it will become boring to see every time the same images. and then? you will put it in the corner and forget it there. Paying that bunch of money for 30 rounds makes more than 10 Euro / round

The train has poor PIC decoder and no pick up shoe switching depending from the direction you choose.

The quality of the video is good, but is strong disturbed when the train is passing on switches and other "bad contact" areas. see here:



rgds

Stephan

I would have a 26020, but there is only one on eBAY and it is selling way beyond the 399 EURO.. Is there a way to buy from the Museum?

Hello Akis, yes I received mine safely last week. It looks a wonderful set, but I have not yet tried it out. The goggles do not fit over my glasses though!!

One thing slightly disappointing is my camera car has no drivers windscreen glazing. Is that how it comes?

I guess plastic glazing may affect the focus of the camera if this is correct.

I will try to play this weekend and report back again!!

Regards
Ashley

If the windscreen fitted then can't see it.

Oh well...looks like I bought mine a few weeks too soon

There are some very good offers on that site though, thank you for the link!

I ordered it for the same price new with warranty from a registered MHI dealer.

And Meise also lists this article as new. Therefore you have two years "dealer warranty". And I presume you'll also get two years warranty from Märklin.

Very cheaper price.

For some they see it as a crime if you buy from a "Non Authorized" Dealer. You MUST always buy from an authorized dealer and you MUST pay the recommended Retail Price as some always do

I have check MMC, Bergedorfer Str. 73, 21502 Geesthacht on Marklin dealer Website found nothing.

MMC was a Non-Marklin authorized dealers.

Only 'Marklin authorized dealers' show on M dealer website.

Nevw wrote:

And even if living outside EU, you MUST pay VAT

Per.

Help , call the medics I am in hysterics.
John, you know that you must follow the example of our Serious members and ALways pay the highest price possible. that way you always get a product that Never has a defect

Sorry OT.

Per what is VAT.? I think VAT is something that wine, beer or whisky is stored in.
NN

Thanks, Sir. In the name of all non-serious members

Hello, The products will be on the way to me soon. Products ready to be shipped and I kicked the money transfer.

I spent 550 Euro (250 Mobile vision + 300 Br23 train) Euro and saved 450 Euro compared to UVP price.

Does this mean that net I spend only 100 Euro

rgds

Stephan

Supermoe wrote:


No, you are not correct, Stephan.

You spent 550 Euro, and saved 450, so you only spent 100 Euro, that is correct.

But since the true value of what you bought is 1000 Euro, you actually earned 900 Euro.

Per.

P.S: I expect you send me half of the 900 Euro for giving you this explanation

Sorry about dragging up an old topic, but I just came upon one of these sets (26020).

A customer brought one in to the store, and he can't get it to work. He tried using a conventional 6646 transformer to run it. It does run the loco, but I don't believe that the camera will function correctly because of the variable track voltage. So I tried it on a MS2 digital system. Neither 26001 nor 26020 show up on the controller's database, nor could the unit find the decoder, so I entered it manually using address 2 as per the instructions. Now the loco runs, but there are no lights (does it have lights?).

Meanwhile we cannot get the headset to work. First question is the slide switch in the camera car. There is no indication as to which position is channel 1 or 4. So trying the headset with the channel set to 1, 2, 3, and 4 we still get no response. The switch on the bottom is set to NORM, and I've tried pressing the button by the antenna as per the instructions, but I get no response. I do hear a faint "whine" from the speakers, but nothing else happens.

Could it be the batteries? The batteries that the customer came with I believe are the original ones from the set (he said he tested them), and I tried another set of AAA batteries that I have here (they have been used for a while). I feel that the headset may require absolutely brand new batteries to function. Is that the case?

Thanks for any assistance that you can supply.

Yours,

Stuart

Finally you got some of it right.

It wasn't second hand stuff, it was brand new.

But since it's almost 5 years ago, you are still right: The warranty doesn't help now.

Per.

Yes! My only grumble with this set is that it loves batteries. In the end I was using the (at the time) new Lithium AAA batteries from Duracell and getting a few hours of usage..

Well, I finally obtained some nice fresh AAA batteries, and the system now works as advertised. Thank you all for your assistance.

Stuart