Five More Great New Gadgets For Your Model Railroad From DCC Concepts (160) 

I was hoping to just make more of them!

On the orders I get from Hattons shipping is less than from my local dealer just 60 miles away and no sales taxes, VAT is subtracted for overseas customers. With their “trunk” service they will hold your orders until you have accumulated what you want and then ship when you tell them so it is easy to combine orders.

I have purchased stuff rom AJM, Kernow Rail Center, Rails of Sheffield, and Hattons and never had any problems with any of them but Hattons is my go to store. Shipping is cheaper from them than from my Walthers dealer just 60 miles away.

For a small switching layout with inly a few locos I would definitely consider putting stay alives in the locos instead of powering the frogs.

The rolling road is nice, I used it to break in the little Kernow 0-6-0 and my new Dapol 2-6-0. iI haven’t had the courage to try my 4-6-6-4 out on it!

You would install 2 Power Points, one for each bus wire. This makes sense anyway since you install a PAIR of alignment dowels to get a secure alignment between modules. These are installed using the same process and tools as I showed in the earlier video. I’ll do a demo when I replace the existing dowels with these new ones. It will probably be soon as I am tired of crawling under the layout to disconnect the Anderson Power Poles.

@@TheDCCGuy sometimes folks also have a separate 12V bus for non-DCC accessories so a coaxial arrangement would have been best in that regard. Just a thought.

They should. See my video on connecting stay alives that I provided a link to in the video. With all stay alives you need to turn analog conversion off in CV29. I get a package from Hattons about every couple of months and the shipping is less from England than my local dealer just 60 miles away in South Carolina.

@@TheDCCGuy Thanks for the helpful response. I've been studying your earlier videos concerning stay-alive fabrication. I had concluded that those stay-alives would have been too big for easy intallation. The DCC Concepts stay-alives appear to be very compact and easier to install.

Inhope you haven”t gone too far with that one as I will have a different circuit this week that is much better and less sensitive to the light level.

Sorry, I just deleted your response by mistake. Anyway you could probably go as low as 1/4W since this is a pretty low power circuit. I too have a number of extra parts for planned future use but this new circuit is so much better I bit the bullet. Watch the video on Friday to see what I mean.

@@TheDCCGuy No prob Lar, this is the internet, so it's drifting around there, practically forever (my response). But, though I am not electronic savvy, it just felt a little heavy for the circuit. (Don't ask me why), and it's good to run it past a pro. I will probably go with 1/2w, just to cover my bases, and don't mind the effort, as I have been tooling around this project for a couple of years. Plus, I am discovering a lot of nice and neat little tools, toys and gizmos that might make this go a lot smoother than I thought. I am going to make a breadboard model, and if successful, ship the work up to a company to manufacture a PCB. This will be great training and practice. My layout is fairly large, so I will have plenty of room for the new and improved models you are coming out with Friday, ans will subscribe so I don't miss it! I love the way you explain the electronics and theory behind these projects, which make them a lot more fun and educational. Thanks again and cheers!

There is a high lower output on the detector board for driving relays and it should be able to easily handle a Tortoise switch machine. Circuitron sells a kit for Tortoises to lower and raise crossing gates so it should be an easy enough project. If you visit the DCC Concepts website and look at these they have a link for downloading a newsletter with a more complete description of these. It would be really helpful to have a tech tip sheet showing ways to wire these up but they are just too new right now so maybe down the road that will come. I’ll mention it to them.

I’ll check but I can’t see why you would want to intermix them as the electrical connection wouldn’t work. However if you are asking whether you could have the old ones on one pair of modules and the new ones on another pair that should be OK.

Hi Larry I am in a group and everyone has their own module. I was wondering if someone used the new dowels on a new module if it could still align properly with the old ones. The electrical connections would not be an issue. Paul from Zillmere

Paul-it would depend. With the alignment dowels, in each pair one is male and the other female. With the males there is a projection so it can not mate with another module that does not have a female dowel or a hole drilled where that female should be. The females are flat on the surface so could mate with a module having no dowels.

Thanks Larry Paul from Zillmere

What kind of captions are you expecting?

@@TheDCCGuy the ones that are usually on your videos. The free youtube auto captions. Once and a while your videos don't have them.

AFAIK I have no control over that and it is not a setting that I have ever seen or changed.

@@MoosesWorkshop They are called "closed captions" and yes, his videos do usually have them and they can be helpful.

@@TheDCCGuy actually you do have control over them. When uploading a video, make sure the closed captions box is clicked with English chosen as the language. It is a free youtube option.

It always amazes me what annoys some folks. But I bet you never forget that the wire gies through the hole!

It was like watching a porn video.

Lmao 😂

First it was less than 23 mins cut down from 60 so I could have droned on even more. I doubt anyone would have gotten anything from a review with just 1 minute on each product, hardly time enough to do more than show the item and move on to the next one