Hi Jennifer, I also bought this product, it has now an updated version to plug in a remote sensor unit. I find it also interesting for setting the CV codes in DCC. This means you can adapt you locomotive to the maximum speed it use to go in reality. Of course in reality a loco has for instance a maximum speed, of lets say 120 mph, but that doesn't mean it's allowed in service operating to go at that speed, this can for instance be only 100mph. To give you an example, I'm now a Belgian train driver on pension, but I use to drive the diesel class 66, as you are also familiar with in the UK. Train regulation says that when you drive this loco without a load, your maximum speed is 80kmh (about 50mph). But with a train load this can, depending on the break characteristics of the load, can be 100kmh (about 62mph)(100kmh is by the way the maximum speed for all freight trains on all regular networks that I use to drive on.) And this is because the loco it self, has a very bad break characteristics, and only due to the good breaks of the train load, allows it to go faster. So my question is, can this information be found on UK loco operating speeds, and I'm specially interested in this of the steam engine classes (ERA1+2+3). Are you aware if this information is in any literature, website etc. available? best regards, Danny
Fun gadget. I also loved the H&M gadget for measuring the draw a loco takes from the track. They're like hens teeth now but these old ammeter gadgets were great fun
Useful device! I agree with other commenters that a separate sensor unit that could be mounted and disguised by the lineside would be better. Some kind of on board sensor unit that detects speed continuously and communicates via Bluetooth or wifi would be even better but I guess that's a future development!
Tend to agree. It has some use but only for the loco that is passing the unit ie what would be good is to relate the speed reading somehow to the DCC address of the loco. Not a 5 minute job to engineer I appreciate but would provide the feeling of driving the loco and eg on diesels ramping up the throttle
Hi Jenny and Zoe. December 25 at 4 pm eastern, I doing my Annual Christmas Day live stream. Lots of gifts to be given away and a great place to hang out with the community. Hope to see you and everyone else there that night. Happy holidays to you booth, Thanks for the informative, videos, and fun live streams
this would be a nice device to have on about 3 spots on my layout. and by the looks of that one, it will stay powered on till you shut it off. that is a plus.
This is a great little compact and commercial unit. I found one on RU-vid that utilises an arguing NANO, a display and a pair of infrared sensors. The sensors are easily positioned, (and hidden), on the layout with the display located in my mimic panel.
If you look for Mobaspeed, you can find all the components to make one yourself. That will be cheaper. But it is a bit more of a hassle. I made one. Also, you have to connect it to the computer again, re-write a line in the code and re-program the device if you want to change the scale. Personally I prefer this compact Speedometer, which I also own.
Good evening Jen!! It’s a very good idea to know exactly how fast your models are going to run!! I’m very interested in such an item, although I keep my trains VERY slowly. But there again, I’m running a micro layout.
Hello, this is a very interesting item. It would have been great if the sensors were separate sub boards to be mounted remotely. I may buy one and modify it so the display is near my control center with the sensors elsewhere on the layout. Thanks for showing this. Best regards to you
Hi Jenny, excellent video again! That really is an interesting bit of kit and I would imagine it very useful for determining the right scale speed settings for individual locomotives if nothing else 🤔 I am no rivet counter, but I know what you mean about the sight of a steam hauled unfitted freight train bombing round doing what looks like a scale ton! 🙄 I actually like my trains to just bumble along anyway 🤷🏻♂️ Thanks for the content again this year, have a great Christmas 👍🍀🥂🎉🎅
Be aware that if you set the sensors at a different spacing, that the unit will not be able to figure out the distance between the sensors and give an accurate reading. They must be set at the distant specified.
40 quid, not bad - how accurate is it though I wonder? The sensors look fairly easy to extend with some light soldering and some thin wires. Was surprised how fast 5mph actually was! Lovely vid Jen :) ❤️
@@JenniferEKirk Thanks, sounds a great idea, though as you say, even better if the sensors could be set permanently somewhere hidden on the layout with screen and controls by one's controls. This could be a Christmas present to myself. Thanks.
Quite an interesting gizmo. How accurate is it? Railmaster gives you a speed for previously calibrated locos. I wonder if it is more accurate than Railmaster? I think it would be more useful if it could do something such as execute a control sequence. The drawback with Railmaster, is that it does not know where on the layout a loco is. A device like this would be good if it told the software the train was passing a certain position on the layout. By the way, you may care to alter the arrangement of your lighting in your loft as when you lean forward your face is in shadow! Thanks for uploading!
help. device shows speed unit.then mph oo , detect speed does NOT show so detection of speed not showing.Also tried to find change area as want british n gauge , not coming up. Tried the website , just some generic website on drm video. so help and send me the instructions if you can obtain them.
I got my new one v.211 and literally cannot get it to work, basically when I plug it in the detect speed does not appear thus I cannot set the speed which in turn does not allow me to set area or scale but luckily it already set to UK OO but the unit doesn't detect any speed. I tried unplugging and holding down the top button which allows me to set either the Time, MPH or KM/H but that's all I can do because Detect Speed never appears on the screen. When it is on the unit just flicks between speed screen and a Sensor R/Sensor L screen and does nothing else and the Detect Speed screen never appears. Really annoying unit where something so simple turns into a palaver and more than likely faulty.
I see you managed to bring up “0” gauge even though it does not appear in the specs for the V1 version. Is yours a later version? Only V1 is listed on the DJM website. Does yours also cover Gauge 1?
This comment might open a can of worms. You said that it can measure HO and OO. I would have liked to have seen the results as we all know that the Track that we all use is HO which is .5 of an mm shorter than OO.per foot. Our Engines etc may be scale length, but not scale width as the bodies would overhang the chassis and look very under Prototibeall and nobody would buy them. A nice gadget to have. Martin. (Thailand)
@@JenniferEKirk I was referring to the unit, would it show the same speed set on HO or OO or would it calculate at 3.5mm to the foot on HO and 4.00mm to the foot on OO? If so which one would be correct?
Interesting video. But I have to disagree I really don't see the need for this device. Unless you are modeling a totally accurate layout. But I just see a clever gadget with no real purpose. Sorry.
