Hi David and the team. When I first saw McKinley I was most impressed with your use of computing as a means of deriving a lot more fun out of your model railway. I now realise I was completely wrong. It is the Team that is the true secret to McKinley’s fun. The way you have drawn together quite a few fellow modellers that significantly enhanced not only the skills but also the depth of output achieved. As a lone modeller working by myself I now accept that I miss out quite a lot on the obvious companionship that your team generate. Great work to all in the McKinley story.
@dattouk
6 жыл бұрын
Hi Mark, You are right and right and wrong. Its a chicken and egg situation. Trying to achieve high results from technology, attracted curiosity, that in turn generated new ideas and improved the technology. It is circular, but you are right in that the true essence is the people.
@videomalc
6 жыл бұрын
Really enjoying your videos and so glad of your honesty, very refreshing that no one gets it right first time, but your professional approach is inspiring
@albratgaming2348
4 жыл бұрын
Really interesting to see this series of videos and the testing. I have one bone to pick though. Checklists - Whenever I have had to fill one in, we are required to tick each box as we do the task and not once we finish everything. Was nice to see the final test failures though. Failed on 2 counts but that just proves the testing is working.
@dattouk
4 жыл бұрын
Good point. I'll raise that point with our team.
@tonverkleij6491
3 жыл бұрын
Very structural and professional approach on every level. Even each sheet of paper is well designed and thought over, like which colours should be used on the layout diagrams so that colourblind people could use it as well. Very impressive.
@SheltonDCruz
4 жыл бұрын
Very well done!
@markstafford5586
4 жыл бұрын
Great device men
@Captainpete3
5 жыл бұрын
Profiling Locos using 3 block method [time verse speed step], then using brake compensation FWD/RVS auto-run into test block is spot on accurate everytime. Loco speeds are as scale speeds. Loco lashups are equal right across the locos speed range. Stop markers will be spot on everytime at any block. No wonder your locos over run stop marker. Or you can use a 2nd stop block in the main block.
@buckamboolmodeltrains
4 жыл бұрын
Just wondering why you pressed F9 during the uncoupling test of the loco, I'm assuming the loco isn't fitted with an automatic uncoupler, is it something to do with activating the magnet in the track or a sound feature on the loco?
@jimsmoter4510
6 жыл бұрын
That’s a lot of steps to make sure a loco is running properly and reliable ..
@dattouk
6 жыл бұрын
True, but we then have countless hours of reliable running. Every one of those problems would rear their ugly heads at some stage in the next 24 months.
@ModelRailroadTechniques
6 жыл бұрын
Hi I see you are using the zeller cat for profiling. So you are still using version 8 of tc? Zeller cat has issues with profiling correctly. My zeller causes a wheel slip on occasions which throws out profiling. Perhaps the reason the diesel failed some tests? Great layout though
@gdaysydney
6 жыл бұрын
I have just purchased the Zeller cat rolling road a few days ago now awaiting delivery in Australia - wish I had seen this post first - I see V9 of train controller has an added "third party measuring device " as an input option. Did V8 not handle brake compensation when using a rolling road?
@dattouk
6 жыл бұрын
We use V8 with the Zeller Rolling road. I have no plans to migrate to version 9 at present. The rolling road is not as good as live profiling within TC, but the big benefit is the time saving. We set up our Zeller system by profiling one loco on the layout and obtain a definitive profile that is good from a reliable locomotive. Then test the loco on the rolling road. If the speeds are different, adjust the frig factor in Railroad.ini under [connections]. Its called ZellerDiameter=xxx (e.g. 5.93mm is 593). I adjusted this value until the results from the Zeller system matched the real world results for the low, mid and high speed steps. When we profile a new Loco using the zeller system, we then test the loco under schedule conditions for real and check the stopping distances and scale speeds. We use the Zeller as a shortcut to save 30 minutes a loco in profiling.
@gdaysydney
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your reply. Keep the videos coming !
@RoamingAdhocrat
4 жыл бұрын
3:30 I never knew the 47s entered service without yellow panels!
@dattouk
4 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure they did either! I think we might have to paint a small yellow end on that model.
@RoamingAdhocrat
4 жыл бұрын
@@dattouk Could leave it as a what-if. I like the new liveries without yellow ends - what if we'd adopted decent headlights instead of yellow paint for visibility way back when?
@spambot7110
4 жыл бұрын
are there any DCC chips that just have an encoder input so they cna do proper closed loop control instead of needing all this tedious hand calibration?
@dattouk
4 жыл бұрын
What an inspired idea. I don't think so and don't know any of the manufacturers well enough to suggest it to them.
@spambot7110
4 жыл бұрын
@@dattouk ah well. i'm not actually in the scene itself, maybe someday when i have a home big enough to fit a layout. hopefully by then it'll be a thing!
@fatwalletboy2
3 жыл бұрын
Im just wondering though.....with all the checking and checlists etc etc does some poor chep get his arse kicked if a loco fails in service.......i love this lsyout but to me this aspect seems extreme. I dont see the huge conseqence if a loco fails....big hand of god removes it and places a replacement on......this operation is beyond clinical. Just my view on this particular element.
@dattouk
3 жыл бұрын
Its not like that.. Sorry if you have managed to fall into the dark side on this. We enjoy our railway and watching the trains trundle by.. By making sure the locomotives are working well, we don't have to worry about providing the hand-of-god. Given that the computer is driving about 6 to 10 trains at the same time, it is frustrating if one fails every 20 to 30 minutes..
@tommylrph
5 жыл бұрын
Nice done checklists. Any possibility of sharing those as a starting point for others looking to do the same? Thoroughly enjoying the progress with lots of ideas to add for my own layout using TrainController (facebook.com/BDKaiserslautern/ )
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