Been away for a while (work must) and now have a couple of runners back from repair/chipping

Couple of questions

(i) I sent this message to Revolution Trains. Much as I love them I find they rarely respond:


I have a Pendolino Virgin 390 set

It was working fine controlled by a ROCO Z21

Now one driving car (the other is fine) cannot be read at all on the programming track, or comes up with wild read CV numbers like 255 or 64, but will not set a CV. Should I try and reset this drive car, if so how?

My main question that is not in the instruction sheet is how do I go about removing the bodyshell so that I can test the DCC chip. If it is faulty what would be a compatible DCC chip with the drive car that is working?

(ii) My repairer has rechipped two sets of Dapol Voyagers that work fine, save no lighting in dummy drive cars. Similar question is, how do I remove the bodyshell on these and presumably I should have asked for an extra DCC chip in the dummy cars/is there a cheaper option when the DCC chip is only powering the lights or does it have to compatible with the chip in the powered drive car?

(iii) my repairer wasn't able to help with

- DCC install on a Graham Fraish Silver Fox A4 (no socket)
- repairing and chipping a Tomix Thomas and Percy with micro DCC chips

Re Thomas and Percy I've contacted Wickness Models sveral times (they specifically advertise this service) but never get a reply from them.

(iv) Finally, I started pinning down my Kato track, cleaning it and testing. I have a Kato double switchover that was working fine with DCC Concepts decoder. Now that it is secured closer to the baseboard, the electrical switch (powered through a Roco Z21) only seems to work to switch both sections back to the straight on mainline. The mechanics of switching to crossover can be heard in the point, but mechanically the switch doesn't take place.

I'm reluctant to open up the point as they are expensive and delicate, and it was all working until yesterday!

Any tips of any of these probs, much appreciated!

Sorry Bob, I am too "Slow" to guess and win!

Tim

Quote from: Bob Tidbury on July 11, 2025, 09:09:24 PMI cant afford a prize for everyone who guesses what I was listening to today but I bet a lot of you will know .
Bob

I have heard a rumour 

I cant afford a prize for everyone who guesses what I was listening to today but I bet a lot of you will know .
Bob

Thanks Martin @port perran , here are The Band Geeks before Jon adopted them, good or what...


Love the singer Ann Marie.

Tim

Here's a band that I found interesting in the 90s.
If you like a strong baseline this might be for you although sound quality on the live video isn't brilliant.

Thanks Tim @Moonglum.
I've never heard of Geeks before but that's a very good rendition of one of my favourite Yes songs even if I now find Jon Anderson's voice a tad irritating.

I bought TFTO back in the day but never really got into it @Newportnobby although I quite like Nous Sommes de Soleil.
I rather lost interest in Yes after that. I still think that Time and a Word, Yes Album and Fragile were their best albums with Close to the Edge ok in parts.

Glad you liked Iron Butterfly @Moonglum although  maybe it's an acquired taste

I am afraid that Yes's TFTO never really gelled with me Mick @Newportnobby . The follow up "Relayer" was much more focussed and very different but not on par with earlier works, after that I lost interest until "90125" and then lost interest again...

Martin @port perran , that's the first time I have heard Iron Butterfly's "In A Gadda Da Vida", I like it.

Have you heard this...


The Band Geeks are a sort of tribute band and Jon seems to like them and adopted them!

Tim 

A bit of 'Yes' My 2 CD set hasn't got this extended intro.
Much though I like the album the first disc with tracks 1 & 2 gets played the most
The rest can be a bit of a racket if you're not in the mood for it

What a delightful old fella, and an inspiration to us - seek ye happiness where ye can!