A DCC 009 Narrow gauge loco for £47!
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- čas přidán 26. 11. 2023
- A DCC 009 narrow gauge loco for £47! I show the latest addition to the fleet at Chalkdon my 009 layout. It is a 3D print on a Kato 109 Chassis with a Lais DCC decoder. A little time and work produced what I think is an attractive and useful addition to the fleet. See what you think.
Nice model, and nice layout :)
Thank you!
The 109 chassis has a lovely mechanism. On DC it can run really slowly and smoothly. Great layout by the way 💪🏻
Thank you for great comment. For the money the 109 chassis is great value and as you say runs well on DC. Messing about with the CVs on DCC is getting me a slower running chassis which is good.
I was about to order some of these but your "3 volt motor" comment had me thinking twice. It is actually hard to find a definitive spec sheet online, but there's a couple of 'strip-down' sites, which state 12V coreless'. It would seem odd, to supply a chassis intended to run on N gauge (12V) which uses a 3V motor...
Hello Andy, Thanks for your comment. At the time I started using the Kato chassis it had been upgraded. From what I understand, the earlier chassis were 3v motors with an external resistor. The upgraded chassis does not have that external resistor which means either the resistor is inside the motor or the motor Kato now use is a 12v one. Trying to find the answer has so far proved elusive and if you search on line there are differing views. The bottom line is that the motor runs (whether it is a 3v motor with a resistor or a pure 12v motor) on 12v and will run on DCC. As a chassis they are good value but putting a chip in does mean having to alter CV values to get slow running. I certainly would not wish to put anyone off using them. Hope that is of use . Woody
Great bargains there and smooth running
Thanks! For the price you can pick the chassis up at they really are good and the £D print options are getting better and more detailed too.
nice
Thanks!