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Hi Kris :) Lenz 100 minimum 11v to track maximum 22v to track but as delivered, 16V to track.. therefore you are within 2v of the supply, therefore no problems. Regards Graham

Mike Greetings :) From personal experience, I would agree this is what's on the Lenz site, however, I would also offer a personal experience which has been confirmed by others. If you wish to change the output voltage, as I did, to 12V output.. any voltage difference between input and...

Conor, greetings :) Sorry about the delay. OK as promised some pics, which hopefully will make sense. First the Modules themselves:- On each module, you can see two telephone sockets marked with coloured dots. These are the network connections to the computer.. its a simple case of...

Conor Hi :) okay.. I had a quick look at the trackplan, and it looks like you have less than 16 turnouts. Assuming you use snap action switch machines (Peco style), as I do, that would require 1 train-brain module and 1 Switchman module. You would use one control from the 4 on the...

Hey Conor :) I am a user of CTI so perhaps I can help :) OK.. theres two seperate phases to this computer control stuff with DCC. The first is providing the DCC signals and power to the track to run trains. That is accomplished by using a DCC command station, whether Lenz, Digitrax or any...

Hi Kris :) Sorry, no idea, but your origional theory of blown sounds possible as there wa a short across the loco. Personally, I would see if I had a motor from another loco somewhere and just hook the decoder up with power in and motor out to check before consigning it to the destroyed bin...

Hey Kris :) what loco and decoder?... if you say DZ123 or DZ143 or Atlas loco with replacement board such as DN163A0 or NCE equivalent I may have an answer, or at least a place to start looking... :) Do the lights work at all ? Regards Graham

Hi donnie :) Yep.. heres the origional pictures from Ron's site... Before mods... After... Best access is to remove the hex nut that fits in the flywheel and then slide the bearing off the shaft. I found the best way to remove the hex nut was to get a bit medieval on it and just...

Dwight, Hi :) okay, as has been said above, DCC is actually an AC waveform on the track with information "sent" using that AC as a carrier directed to the decoders that interpret that info, and turn that into an appropriate DC voltage for the motor. The voltage on your tracks using DCC is...

HI Dwight :) This may be a long reply so bear with me :) I think your choice of lenz 90 is excellent, but I would suggest a number of things to consider as this is a major purchase and should be a careful consideration for anyone. A little pre-amble. I have owned and used the following...

Greetings :) Yes you are right... Where the old blocked system fed two wires to the block switches, you replace those two wires with the two DCC wires, turn all the blocks on and away you go. You appear to be using common return wiring, so it would be a good plan to chack isolation around...

Hi Donnie :) Not sure if your talking about N or HO here for your GP7, but if N-gauge I picked up the following tip after re-assembliung one of mine after decoder fitting... These locomotive are known to be very loud after you reassemble them, and they sound like a coffee grinder. On all of...

Hi :) 25 way is a good way to go. Always carry a couple of spare cables in case of bent pins or other troubles :) 25 way are, to my mind, the best compromise between number of wires available in one plug/socket and ease of soldering wires into them. Did a layout once with 50 way...

Hi Donnie :) Very odd :) heres the two things I would check first.. 1) Are the connecting cables you are using actually wired on all 25 pins straight through with none missing and none reversed. Its possible to buy 25 way cables for computers that either a) don't have all pins...

Hi Daniel :) As an ex GWR branchline modeller in N-gauge, congratulations, you have chosen a wonderful time period and area :) OK.. This may be a good site to rummage through.. http://www.gwr.org.uk/index.html There are loads of photos and resources here that should help. Bear in...

Greetings :) Have a look at this little unit to overcome the limitations of the various DCC systems for BLI programming :) http://www.tonystrains.com/technews/powerpax.htm Might solve your problems. No connection with company, just a satisfied user. Regards Graham Evans

Greetings :) Try http://www.nmra.org/standards/rp-20_1.html Regards Graham

Greetings :) LOL yeah me too. I have just had to self convert from VB6 to VBNet.. ackkkkk!!! anyway... forgot to mention.. if you are into programming, CTI has a unit which interfaces into the system allowing you to write your own complete control program in VB6.0 (or I guess any other...

Greetings :) Yeah, point taken.. The whole program is based on statements such as When xyz Do abc Example.. When Sensor1 = true do Signal1 = Red You can define all the sensors and controls to the names you want. My suggestion is look at the documentation, then download the program...

Greetings :) I use the CTI system on my layout in conjunction with a lenz DCC system in N scale. http://www.cti-electronics.com/ It requires a computer, whatever computer interface is required by your DCC system and some simple programming skills to write the sequence of events you wish to...