Hi, I have just figured out from the drawings where 2 wires go to , it show negative to Tx2. 3.1v+ to Tx2, done that, But one wire shows it goes to Tx2 9v+, where on the Tx2 is that ?
You see the RC Helicopter world that I come from, if I want a Transmitter, Receiver or model I just go out & buy it, not have to build the bloody thing. Yes I have to bind & set it up with a few things like throttle, pitch, swash plate, gyro & servo throws then I am in the air, RC garden trains are so complicated with building set & all that stuff. All I want is a train with smoke, lights & sound, hopefully to run around the garden that’s all, none of the complicated work that goes with it. It is no surprise that so few take up this hobby it seems that only the knowledgeable enthusiasts with skills & know how to do it are into railways. I am just a simple man that would like a train running around my garden, I get lost with all the things you lot talk about, could you explain things in laymen’s terms not codes or technical terms so I have some sort of chance of getting things done, photos would be good. Yes I am thick when it comes to all this but please remember I am just getting into this hobby. I get so frustrated with all this as I cannot do or understand what you are talking about. Also, why are G scale wagons & locos so expensive compared to 00 scale. Thanks. But I will say it has been very helpful with all the help I have been getting, so Thanks for that. ChopperCook.
I confess that I hadn't realised that the Deltang gear came in kit form as a default - at the very least, I had assumed that the customer had a choice to buy it as a kit or ready assembled. Frankly, I wouldn't have a clue where to start with putting one together either....
I can understand your frustration, Chopper, and I think there are a lot of different reasons for things being as they are in the UK garden railway hobby. First, the market for G scale over here is TINY compared with the equivalent market in (say) Germany, where G scale originated with LGB 50 years ago - and Battery RC is only a small subset of that tiny market, with very little standardisation and a number of people each doing and building their own thing. The "ready built" market for Battery RC trains over here is divided into two extremes - the toy end of the market (Playmobil, and Chinese imports like Newqida) and the high-end from the likes of Roundhouse, where a ready-to-run all-metal battery RC diesel shunter will set you back 500 squid plus - and is aimed at the live-steam boys to give them something to run when they don't have time to steam-up a "proper" engine. If we want to do anything between these two, we're all pretty much on our own, doing conversions on commercial plastic locos (LGB, Piko etc) that are designed to run on track power.
I can appreciate your reasons for not wanting track power, though in my experience it's not anything like as much hassle as some people like to make out; when I decided that I wanted to have a couple of battery locos that I could run anywhere (such as when visiting lines that run mostly live steam, therefore don't have track power available) I took the route of converting a couple of LGB locos that already had full DCC driving and sound systems, and equipped them with Lith-Ion batteries and commercial wireless-DCC receivers. The conversions were simple do do (nothing to actually "build", just modules to install and wire up) and have so far been very successful.
If folks on here seem to speak a lot of technicalities at times, it's probably because it's the quickest and easiest way to discuss things that most of the participants in the discussion understand - but if newcomers to the hobby ask questions, or ask for something to be explained in less technical terms, I think most on here are more than happy to help. I'm sure that it's actually much the same on most forums devoted to the RC flying hobbies, or indeed almost any other specialist interest group - to the newcomer it can seem very technical and jargon-filled, but clearer explanations should always be available when asked for, as everyone was new here once!
As to the cost issue of G scale compared with other scales/gauges, a lot of it is down to the size of the market and numbers produced - a G scale item is never going to sell anything LIKE as many as an OO scale one, so the production quantities (and consequent economies of numbers) are completely different. Then of course there is the sheer physical size - with G, you're getting a heck of a lot more loco or wagon for your money! Having said that, of course, if you look at the prices of modern HO models imported from Europe, they are scarily close to what you would pay for LGB or Piko G-scale.....
Jon.
