Our 10 year old Tibetian Terrier kept waking us up in the night to go out for a wee ,We now put puppy training pads down on the kitchen floor and she got the hang of useing them and doesnt wake us up any more ,Ok they  do cost us but worth it for a full nights sleep ,But now like Mick its me that gets up in the night every 2 or 3 hours while the dog now sleeps .
NO I DONT USE THE PUPPY PADS before any bright spark makes that comment .
Bob

Freyr has a cage not 3 feet from me, I've built an outdoor run 6ft high steel weld mesh fences, slabbed floor, steel kennel...

Oh and he's learnt yesterday how to open the back door so we have to have it locked..

Quote from: Newportnobby on June 14, 2025, 03:29:30 PM

Quote from: The Q on June 14, 2025, 02:56:17 PMAnd definitely not at the radar museum on my side.

You have a radar museum on your side??

(When trying to open a door - Bluebottle "Eccles, turn the knob on your side". Eccles "I haven't got a knob on my side ")

I should add I'm a volunteer at the radar  museum, and the room I show people round in is the wrong side of the building to get mobile phone signals. There's a 64 ft square WW2 concrete above ground bunker, full of radar consoles in the way.


I'm normally residing the other side of the wall on the left. ( The equipment is the early 1970s refit.)

Thanks again jpendle

I'll have another look at the programme function issues as per your advice.

For the specifics of my problem with getting the Z21 to recognise the ADS4x I got some very helpful advice from DCC Concepts:

"The ADS units are not readable by the Z21 system as there are no programmable CVs. Please follow the setup instructions which are supplied with the unit.

The process is:
1) Create an accessory on your Z21 system (using the layout planner).
2) Allocate the accessory an address of your choosing.
3) Put the ADS into SET mode.
4) Activate the chosen accessory on your Z21 left, then right.
5) Put the ADS into RUN mode."

The problem is with the Z21 manuals both for the old and new version of the app - neither explains stage adequately of having to create the point in the layout part of the app, save it and double click it's switching functions (while the decoder is in learning mode).

If you remain motionless while listening to this, then I reckon you have no pulse

Hi,

Sorry I missed your PM.

For the sounds on the Pendolino your screen when you look at the loco should look something like this.



With a symbol and/or text, for each function plus the function number showing as well.

CI, CII, and CIII are just 3 pages with 12 function entries in each.

You can order the functions anyway you want.

I haven't turned on all the sound functions on my Pendos, but here are screenshots of my Farish sound fitted CL90's.







Hope that helps a bit.

I programmed my accessory decoders years ago, but if I recall correctly I did it like this.

First I didn't use POM.

I created a single point in the app with the address I wanted the decoder to use.

I used NCE accessory decoders and set them to program mode.

I then operated the point in the app by clicking on it, and the decoder was programmed.

Then I changed the address of the point in the App and followed the same process to program the next decoder, etc, etc.

Regards,

John P

Quote from: jpendle on June 14, 2025, 04:40:49 PM

Quote from: Crepello on June 14, 2025, 02:41:58 PMI can't understand why nobody has launched a 2025-standard Yeoman PGA as it's got so many haulage possibilities. I've suggested it on numerous occasions to the main N manufacturers, but maybe we should put it forward in the next wagon poll.

Cavalex said they would do one in N Gauge and then dropped it for lack of interest, if I remember right.

John P

The Cavalex PGA is one of the Redland types, very different to the Yeoman ones.
From memory it was backing from Rails of Sheffield that made it a goer in N.

This is the only diagram of PGA they've done in 4mm and subsequently shrunk.

Jo

I now have a draft layout, not secured yet as still testing electrics, but DCC power appears to be good everywhere.

Locos that are currently DCC Compatible are registered in the Z21 but I'm still struggling with all of the programming functions (post above).

Next teething problem is with the points. I'm using Kato Unitrack. I've bought some DCC Concepts ADS-4x units to control them together with the 3 to 2 wire solenoid connection converters.

I had the impression it would all be plug and play but nothing is intuitive with the Z21 controller!

On the Z21 I set up a mock layout with just one point for testing. It is track powered and you can see that the ADS4x is picking up the track power. For the life of me though I can't get the Z21's program accessory screen to pick up the CV for the point.

What am I missing?? Is the polarity of the track power input into the ADS4x important or doesn't matter. Have I got the adapter the wrong way around/do I need more wiring than just the two wires that should fire the Kato solenoid?





[The z21 is latest firmware v.1.43 and I am using the newer z21 software as per image. I've turned off the "offset CV addresses" option in Z21 app settings as addressed here: DCC Concepts advice and the ADS4x switch is on "set" rather than "run"]

Quote from: Crepello on June 14, 2025, 02:41:58 PMI can't understand why nobody has launched a 2025-standard Yeoman PGA as it's got so many haulage possibilities. I've suggested it on numerous occasions to the main N manufacturers, but maybe we should put it forward in the next wagon poll.

Cavalex said they would do one in N Gauge and then dropped it for lack of interest, if I remember right.

John P

Quote from: The Q on June 14, 2025, 02:48:40 PMTry a  Border Collie puppy.. currently 9 months old, teeth and paws into everything..
Hence the delay in muddling, daren't leave him on his own and definitely not near a model railway..

Chap I knew had one of those. He had to keep it in a cage if he wasn't going to be in the room for a while - after it ate its way through both plasterboard layers of a stud wall