I got my Cobalt 6-pack

a couple of weeks ago along with an NCE

Switch-8 and a Littfinski RS-8-G feedback module. If you read my last post you will know that I was looking forward to trying these out in particular because of the reviews these point motors received and because of the supposedly very low noise level. First off all let me say that after some initial hick-ups, primarily my own fault, I managed to get the Switch-8 to throw a switch. And let me just recommend reading the documentation to RocRail as addressing is not straight forward in itself. It will be when you read the documentation though.

As part of getting the Switch-8 to work I brought it to a friends house to rule out that my LZV100 had an issue. I also brought along a Cobalt motor. Of course the Switch-8 worked the second we hooked it up but we discovered that the Cobalt motor made a very loud clicking sound when ever it cialis 10mg reviews reached the end of its throw. It almost sounded like a small spark or a short of some kind. Naturally this worried my a bit but since my Switch-8 was in fact working I didn’t pay to

much attention to it.

Arriving back home I was eager to hook the Switch-8 to my own system again, and of course it worked flawlessly when I did. It is a simple and effective little piece of gear

and straight forward to use. Trying it out I connected one of the other Cobalts and strangely enough it didn’t have the clicking sound and moved slightly slower making a little less noise than the first. I decided to test all 6 cobalts and out of 6,

4 had the clicking sound. One to the point where the motor would actually not stall at the end of does viagra raise your blood pressure a throw but start clicking away until power was either cut or it was thrown again. Having listened to the clicking sound I more or less decided that it was actually the sound of a gear skipping a tooth. But

how can that happen on 4 out of 6. Sounds like DCC Concepts, the company making the Cobalt, need to check up on their QA department. Well I sent the 4 faulty Cobalts back to my dealer and am now waiting for their replacement. I installed the remaining 2 and I have to admit they are very

nice to work with. Although not as noiseless as I was hoping for. So the question is: How much noise is a little noise? Reading on DCC Concepts web site it is easy to get the idea that they are practically silent. But they are not. In fact they are almost as noisy as the ESU Servos, which is a bit disappointing. Perhaps it has something to do with the module construction or the resonance in my room.

Besides playing around with point motors I also had the time

to solder the Littfinski RS-8-G I bought. I was a bit worried that it might not be that easy. I have been soldering electronic kits before but it was a long time ago so I wasn’t sure if anything had changed. Luckily the RS-8-G was very straight forward. The installation guide is really easy to follow and if you know how to properly solder electronic parts, theres

is absolutely no reason why you shouldn’t save the 15-20% on the pre-assembled units. It took me all in all a couple of hours to finish so that wasn’t too bad either. The only things missing is to test cheap online pharmacy usa it. As I haven’t wired my modules yet, that will have to wait a couple of days.

Actually the only thing left before starting the landscaping is the cvs caremark pharmacy wiring. The track is glued down on both segments, all the wiring and frog http://trustedonline-maxpharma.com/ polarization has been tested so all that is left is to make the permanent wiring, including the LDT feedback module, Switch decoder, power bus etc. My summer holiday is

coming up in 2 weeks time and

hopefully

it will be finished by then, so it will be ready when the autumn comes.

Enjoy the summer.

2 posts back I complained about the noise my ESU servos produced. Last week I took the consequence

and decided to get rid of them and the SwitchPilot setup. I thought the old(51803) ESU servos were noisy but when the new(51804) are even noisier it doesn’t really look good.

I didn’t

have a problem with the SwitchPilots as such. They are really

nice to work with, easy

to program, and does an excellent job of controlling the servos. Problem is that

when you buy the Servo version practically all it does is control servos, and since I wasn’t going down that road I really had no use for it.

So what am I getting instead. The only other real options are point motors which somehow seem to be an american phenomenon. Not the europeans aren’t using them, there just seems to be much more talk about them over there and more to chooce from. In europe about the only option is the Tortoise. Or at least that’s the only

motor people are talking about. Until the Cobalt Point Motor came out. Half the size of the Tortoise and supposedly with better gearing for less noise. Like the Tortoise it also handles frog polarization. Everything I’ve read about it has been very positive so I decided to try them out. I also need

something to control them and since DCC Concepts(the people behind the Cobalt) recommended the Switch-8 from NCE thats’ what I went for.

I ordered the Cobalt 6-pack and the Switch-8 from www.digitrains.co.uk and threw in a Littfinski RS-8-GB occupancy detector for Lenz’s RS bus while i had the wallet open. I haven’t received the goods yet but when I do and have had a chance to test out the Cobalt I will of course let you know what I think of it.

Finally I had some time to work on Oberwald trusted online pharmacy this weekend. I basically finished the track on the west segment of the station and started working on the east segment as well. My guess is that I will have the track works finished for the entire station withing a week or two. After that comes the wiring and then I’mn ready for some landscaping.