Smudge617
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Thank you, still lots to do. I've the overhead signal box and at least two gantries to build, all with led signals.
The PIR-fect Valley Railway
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Smudge617
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For a change, as I had to run in two more of the Military Tribute set, decided to do a speed test on them.
Maxed out on my layout at.
Think the engineer was in a rush, only supposed to do 65.
Love the crawl these things can do as well. It shows 2.1mph, actually it's 1 mph. This speedometer doesn't react to anything slower.
Tomorrow I'll see what my OO scale Class 43 and Class 37 will do.
Maxed out on my layout at.
Think the engineer was in a rush, only supposed to do 65.
Love the crawl these things can do as well. It shows 2.1mph, actually it's 1 mph. This speedometer doesn't react to anything slower.
Tomorrow I'll see what my OO scale Class 43 and Class 37 will do.
RhB Michael
RhB Lokführer
That's great! I love to see them move at walking speed.
Smudge617
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As this Triang Industrial was on the layout, and the speedometer was still set up, I decided "why not"
Somehow, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have achieved this kind of speed in real life even if it had existed.
I don't know what the crawl is like, seems I broke it.
Somehow, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have achieved this kind of speed in real life even if it had existed.
I don't know what the crawl is like, seems I broke it.
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BigGRacing
Aka. Gary Russell
That looks awesome!
Smudge617
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So the OO scale Class 43, AKA the HST or Inter-City 125, which had a top speed of 125mph in real life. I re-motored these with can motors.
As a pair (both are power cars), although Hornby produced them as a Power car and dummy.
Crawl speed was abysmal, even though both are fitted with Loksound5 decoders.
it could well be me, when I speed matched them, I didn't have this speedometer, so it was all done by trial and error.
My Bachmann Class 37-0, with a Bachmann non-sound (Zimo) decoder. This did quite well, it's about the same weight as the Athearn CP SD70. IRL, these had a top speed of 90mph
Crawl speed was impressive as well.
It did actually go slower, so slow that the speedometer wouldn't record it.
As a pair (both are power cars), although Hornby produced them as a Power car and dummy.
Crawl speed was abysmal, even though both are fitted with Loksound5 decoders.
it could well be me, when I speed matched them, I didn't have this speedometer, so it was all done by trial and error.
My Bachmann Class 37-0, with a Bachmann non-sound (Zimo) decoder. This did quite well, it's about the same weight as the Athearn CP SD70. IRL, these had a top speed of 90mph
Crawl speed was impressive as well.
It did actually go slower, so slow that the speedometer wouldn't record it.
Kusojiji
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I have one of those speedos as well. Works nicely but need a piece of light colored tape on the loco if it is all black or the sensor has a hard time seeing it. I was using it mainly to set the top speed in the decoder and using JMRI, I just made a straight line between speed step 0 to 128.
169 in an 0-4-0. You should glue some warp engine nacelles on the back!
169 in an 0-4-0. You should glue some warp engine nacelles on the back!
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