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Hi Brian have replaced some of the fishplates and I now have power to all of the track, unfortunatly the twin centre seems to have suffered from damp through being in the loft for many years, so I'm going to have to invest in a new dcc system. As my layout is only small 2ftx8ft with a double loop an...

Good morning Brian, looks like i will have to sort the track out as i have found a few dead spots so i am going to invest in a small track tester, find out whats wrong relay the track and then fix my buss wires to the baseboard, as i can tip it up so no crawling about. So as soon as all this happens...

Many thanks Brian, as i have the Flieschmann Dcc controller and power pack, and as i dont have another controller, would it be best for me to run my buss wire and droppers to covert it to Dcc as i really dont want to buy another dc controller, all of my other locos are already chipped, so would you ...

Hi Brian have tried your suggestion and the motor runs with the first Traffo , the Traffos are about ten years old or maybe more, the flieschmann twin centre and equipment is about the same but never haveing tried it i dont know if its okay, so grateful for your help.

Hi Brian i have found another Traffo and tried with this one, as soon as you apply the loco to the track it shoots off at full speed but i am unable to control the speed from the Traffo as it does absolutly nothing. Will try again with you suggestion and see what happens.

Unfortunatly Brian i dont have a meter.

Hi Brian,the Dmu is Dcc ready with the power unit in the second car, at the moment its wired for dc operation as i wanted to test the track, i have tried another loco which is just dc and it does the same, i have all the wires for the track bus, but as yet have not fitted it, i am using a fleischman...

Hi Brian yes its brand new bought some years ago but not run, as i said i have power to the rails (dc at the moment) i just get a bussing sound and very slow if any movement is it possible i have a short in the track somewhere, very confused.

Hi Brian many thanks for the reply , im using the dapolvoyager 4 car dmu unit to test. so not sure why it wont run.

Hi Everyone,haveing just laid my track and tested it with dc,i have found that although there is power to the track the train will not run.Im using the Dapol Virgin train to test, and have noticed the dc fleischmann traffo is 14vlts. As i intend to use the Fleischmann twin centre im wondering if the...