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Hi Rik,

Many thanks for coming back to me so promptly and for the info.

Still gives me food for thought for the future though. At the moment every thing is working (now that'll be the kiss-of-death!) but future conversion to RCT equipment is not unlikely. The max track voltage is 16v so no issues there.

The first candidates are likely to be my wife's 2 loco's, as she doesn't like the aircraft type Tx, which raises another question which occured to me after I had sent the previous message. The Merlin, which as you know, uses a single control valve for direction and steam admittance which I can see would operate from a Tx using the rotary control in centre off mode. However, her RH loco, of course, has a 2 channel requirement for reversing lever and regulator. The reverser I assume would be operated from a function switch, but ideally would require the speed control to be from stop to stop. To avoid having to re-program the Tx each time, would I be right in thinking that the regulator could use centre off to, logically, full clockwise, albeit with less fine control?

Thanks again
Cheers,
Mike

merlin2:118093 wrote:Hi Rik,

Many thanks for coming back to me so promptly and for the info.

Still gives me food for thought for the future though. At the moment every thing is working (now that'll be the kiss-of-death!) but future conversion to RCT equipment is not unlikely. The max track voltage is 16v so no issues there.

The first candidates are likely to be my wife's 2 loco's, as she doesn't like the aircraft type Tx, which raises another question which occured to me after I had sent the previous message. The Merlin, which as you know, uses a single control valve for direction and steam admittance which I can see would operate from a Tx using the rotary control in centre off mode. However, her RH loco, of course, has a 2 channel requirement for reversing lever and regulator. The reverser I assume would be operated from a function switch, but ideally would require the speed control to be from stop to stop. To avoid having to re-program the Tx each time, would I be right in thinking that the regulator could use centre off to, logically, full clockwise, albeit with less fine control?

Thanks again
Cheers,
Mike

Hi Mike
You can set up an individual receiver to use the full span of a servo. All you (or she) would need to do is remember which loco uses the speed knob 'centre off' and which uses the speed knob 'low off'.

I do produce a Tx with a potentiometer in place of the direction switch - which would be a lot gentler on the reverser mechanism. It's not (yet) featured on the website but I have made them for customers by special request.

Rik

Many thanks Rik. All info now copied and safely stored for future ref.
Thanks again for taking the time to answer my questions.

Cheers,
Mike

Some time ago I bought a Tx22 (and other bits) from Rik and a couple of days ago I finally unpacked it and found that it had a small problem with a component. Rik advised me to return it which I did and I've already had the postage refunded and the repaired controller is on it's way back to me. An excellent service I feel.

Howardws:118449 wrote:Some time ago I bought a Tx22 (and other bits) from Rik and a couple of days ago I finally unpacked it and found that it had a small problem with a component. Rik advised me to return it which I did and I've already had the postage refunded and the repaired controller is on it's way back to me. An excellent service I feel.

Thanks Howard
I suppose, being a fellow modeller, I know how frustrating it can be when you are waiting for something to arrive so I like to turn things around as quickly as I can.

Hope we get some more decent weather soon so you can get back out into the garden.

Rik