Model Railway Forum

You can. use a car "blade" circuit breaker. This one on ebay is 12v 5A and other sizes are available
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/321268071405 ... 0193308246

You can buy an inline blade holder also on ebay
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/143330632400

UHU POWER. Great stuff.

I suggest you buy one of these:
https://www.coastaldcc.co.uk/search.php?search=02010220

A decent quality decoder at a sensible price. Maybe not quite as good as a Zimo but a pretty good second choice.

Take a look Scalescenes, in particular their 'scratchbuilders yard':
https://scalescenes.com/scratchbuilders-yard/
You pay a one off small fee to download the pdf file and then you can print it off yourself as many times as you want.

I may have completely misunderstood what is in the photo but it looks like you have soldered the two longer (anode) wires of the leds together and then connected both blue and white to the shorter cathode wires. I that's the case then that would explain why it doesn't work but neither would it work ...

Just a suggestion . . .

Instead of buying a 30 year old design / technology NCE system why not go for something a bit more up to date? Maybe the nèw Signatrak Ace 3 which they have announced is due to start shipping within the next few weeks. The Ace 2 was good but the new version is much improved ...

I always used to stick with multicore lead solder and occasionally some solid rosin flux. Then, more recently I discovered this gel paste flux:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rosin-Based-Soldering-Electronics-Electrical/dp/B0C3VWZD1C
and I'm a big convert. A tiny bit of this smeared on first and the ...

I can't see how you can have a stayalive on dc. The capacitor will only discharge at full volts so every time you try to reduce the speed the capacitor will kick in and make it go full speed again until fully discharged.


With DC the full volts will be the voltage you have the controller set ...

I can't see how you can have a stayalive on dc. The capacitor will only discharge at full volts so every time you try to reduce the speed the capacitor will kick in and make it go full speed again until fully discharged.