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Wow- enjoyed the tutorial. Thanks so much for the knowledge, Chic 👍

Sir keep it up your explanation it' so helpful ❤❤

Thank you for your Best explanation ❤ it' really helpful 😢

Thank you for this great informative video! As a noob I've been looking all over the Internet for a simple way to connect this sound module without finding any, until now! Short, sweet and to the pooint! Many thanks! :)

Great Video! could You please be so kind and give us the URL where software option 2 is located (can be downloaded). Chris Sharp at Arduino Sig? Thanks Wolfgang

food for thought

Thanks for the excellent video. Are you able to give the specs for the capacitors please. Sorry if you did, and I missed it. Cheers.

thanks

What rate are the diodes Dave

Excelente

A lovely layout, well presented.

I posted this last year on Merg, though the actual work was done in 2022. Coming back to it again, having bought a second Wainwright to convert, using an old CR 123 body and tender top, I found it really useful. I reckon I will do the second conversion in 5 days, as opposed to the five weeks the original took.

All very well in theory. The maximum length of cassette easily manageable is about 36” above that it’s not practical So how do you go with a locomotive and say eight coaches or freight train with a loco and 20 wagons

One special feature you did not mention; You can place components and edit all on both sides of the pcb! So you can make very compact pcbs... You made a good review of Lochmaster, well done. One point for program improvement schould be a library editor and taking lenght measuments, like in Splan8...

No BOM generation? How about >Board > Component list< Create - in plain text or Excel!

I have always found the blue wire that is the common for lighting is usable for the + wire on the keep alive

cool!

Where can I find this kind of motor structure?

What would happen if we reversed the diodes so the cathodes rather than the anodes face one another?

Excellent Video, explanation using simple terms

Excellent. I have learnt a lot thank you.

You can eliminate the diodes by wiring the limit switches in place of the cross connection on the reversing switch. Just relocate the red motor wire to the terminal closest to negative power label in the drawing.

Awesome info .Thank you.

I remember using the optocoupler igbt driver and I have 15 volt to the collector but the multimeter showing the same 6 voltage from the pwm ic not 14.45 volt can you explain why I only get 6 volt instead of the 15 volt to driver the igbt that need 15 volt to fully charge up

Excellent review of a brilliant loco!

i don't have any of these problems, i run my locos on internal batteries and hm7000 sound decoders which i buy for £60 (the batteries are free). It doesn't matter what points i use or whether i have a reversing loop thingamyjig. Also i have no need for a track cleaner as my track does not supply power to my loco via the wheels and then through a contact made of a conducting material that must be kept clean. My locos work everytime and never stutter or stop, oh and i nearly forgot i don't need a stay alive, my locos are alive.🙂

Great...So I am building my Granddaughter a 3 storey dolls house from scratch with a Elevator from Ground to first floor. But instead of the "2possition,Double throw" I wish to put a push button on G and on1st to call the lift up or down. Just like we do in real life. Could you help or point me towards a diagram for independant buttons? Thankz

What is the purpose of the opto in the circuit at 13:20 in the video? Seems to me to be adding an unnecessary component that adds cost and is another possible failure point. It is not providing any isolation or noise immunity between the processor supply and the relay supply as they are tied together with the common 0V line. Just drive the transistor base from the processor output through the appropriate current limiting resistor. The voltage difference between the processor and relay supplies is accommodated by the Vce rating of the transistor.

And what kind of diodes?number?any information on that?

As the eventual recipient of this I am totally in awe of this talent. Just amazing and trying to be very patient!

Excellent, and well illustrated.

thank you, very comprehensive overview and including your personal mesurements which is an enourmous valuable input. very impressive is the ramdisk example. some months ago we fitted a 500gb nvme ssd on a pci-e card and assigned it with a software program as cache to the system drive (sata ssd). The computer is aged (10 years +) but a working horse (2 xeon e5-2650 cpu) and didn't want to start from the pci-e even after tweaking some days. It is used remotely by several users and the performance went up so impressive that they love again using it for scientific calculation. Before we were stopped by the 128GB RAM size available for that machine and always ran into cache issues via the sata interface. The installation of this virtual cache changed the situation drastically. Thank you again for the video and best wishes for christmas, Albrecht

Thank you for this very interesting and well structured presentation. I very much enjoyed seeing your approach to researching, designing and building this excellent layout.

Great coverage of the subject Davy. I had not looked at the MERG CDU. Clever stuff. Re 1 cap on a CDU vs 2. 2 Caps in parallel will have a lower ESR. This may not matter unless the CDU is powering several solenoids together via a diode matrix.

Interesting video. I have problems when turning power on because of everything wanting to turn on at the same time. Thanks to you I have ordered some pmp 26 sequencers.

You don't need the diodes. You split the positive, between the power supply and the switch, wire your switches there, and wire the positive to the each pin of a cross connect, and then just wire the negative the regular way. You remove having to use Diodes.

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Do you also have a circuit diagram?

I love this! I have tried to send an email for the code. Hope it makes it to you.

Hi could you tell me the name of the clamp holding the wheel please. Good informative video. Thanks

what temp should the soldering iron be for SMD soldering please?

This is by far the best stay alive CZcams I have seen. Very clear presentation covering all aspects, very well done Wosag.

Nice thanks learnt heaps. Hi from NZ

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How can I pause/stop the switch inbetween

Can I use it for motor in DC loco ??

Where are PMP 19 circuits available? What is the complete reference to the Journal?

Any chance you could shre the PCB file? (I am a MERG member).

Wish I had known a bit more about this a few years ago. Dear old Apple decided to upgrade my machine to 64 bit, and low and behold all the software that I had purchased that was 32 bit no longer worked, and they didn't care? so I had to start again and spend a load of cash on 64 bit software. Great video well done indeed, thank you!

Thank you for putting so much effort into this presentation. Very clear. I am going to go away and play with this now.