we're gonna take a look at some comments questions tips and complaints from
videos that I've done in the past if you've only seen the video in the first
day or two you might miss out on some of the comments and questions that are
asked on the video you know after you take a look at it so I'm gonna go over
some here and we're gonna also do a big THANK YOU also can you see this right
here okay so let's get going with it right now a lot of times whenever you
watch my videos you might be on there the first couple of days and leave a
comment but you don't see all the comments that come after that like a
week after or maybe two weeks after where you might get some valuable
information on what the the video is about unless you go back and watch it
again which I'm not complaining about you can go ahead and and do that but I
have some comments from the power supply video I have some comments about the pr3
video I have some comments about CVS and some good tips on all of these so let's
get started with this right now well the first thing I'd like to do is give a big
THANK YOU to big Bill Graham for the t-shirt I got this a couple of weeks ago
but just open it up recently I've been sick for a couple of weeks and I haven't
done anything so thank you Bill for the t-shirt I'll wear it proudly I got some
comments about on the CVS on a double pole double throw switch on the harness
I did a few comments and tips on the power supply let me see the pr3 right
here soldering and the switch machines so the reason I'm doing this is like I
said before if you're watching the video and you see it in the first couple of
days you might not be able to see all the comments on there unless you go back
and watch it again which I will not complain about you could always do that
and take a look at the comments on there but I'm gonna go over some of the
comments and and some of the tips on these videos here so let me bring up the
first one here this is from Adam Seraphin and this is on the one I did
with the CV's changing the sounds on it I changed out a stock speaker to a
sugar cube and found out the webco horn has reverb built in where the others do
not the stock speaker is the is that bad - where many good sounds cannot be heard
it is only a half inch speaker with a good enclosure that helps it but
poor choice by Bachmann which a great sounding decoder that is mostly canceled
out with the bad speaker they use this a really good observation whenever you're
going into doing things and changing things out it's a good idea you you know
you could leave your tips there we go does the jmr I read the Seavey's or is
the pr3 that tells you what the CV's are available on the decoder think about
getting a pr3 da-da-da-da-da just wondering since I found doing it that
way I've been in too time-consuming I found CV's available in the budget sound
value decoders that they do not list I was told either the pr3 or jamming can
read them okay now what I have found is in JM RI you can see all the CV values
of it and in the user user's guide that you receive with the locomotive or even
if you go on soundtracks soundtracks has a better one better explanation of it
but even though on the back bachman they have the soundtracks decoders in there
some of those CV values are different the pr3 was designed as an interface for
your computer to your command station and it also is a a sound programmer for
digitrax decoders sound decoders now digitrax has an application and
show it over here where you could use it on the desktop you can create your own
sounds on there with this with the application and the PR 3 so if PR 3 does
not really read the CV's JMRI reads the CV's but the PR 3 can also
be used with the application from digitrax to create sounds and to modify
the sounds and put some sounds on your decoders double pole double throw switch
basic three wire magnetics which is Atlas micro trains how do I connect the
DPDT Center off spring-loaded switch for these type I'm building a Z gauge
and only two switches and I'd like to be switched at the same time by the DPDT
and what I did is I have I found a drawing for him that I sent him through
the email and here it is this is only a single pole double throw switch but it
could be doubled up or both switch machines can be used on the same switch
to operate the turnouts like the video and explanation of
program my question is how do you add bicolor LED to the same setup to show
when power is on or off the program track and what I when I wrote back to
him and I said I don't think you could really use it to on the DCC with the
double pole double throw switch because the the LEDs operate in DC the way that
you get the two different colors on the LED is when the polarity of your DC
current changes from one direction to the other and say like you have your DC
current going one way you'll have red if it's going the other way you'll have
green now DC c is not DC and it's more or less a modified AC it's AC but not
like a sine wave and AC its pulses and they're different length pulses so you
could actually hook it up I've seen where people have hooked up they're led
not a bicolor but just the plain one color LED with the 1k ohm resistor on
the positive terminal of the LED and hooked it between the rails on their
track or program track or whatever track that you want to indicate that you have
power on that track that's the way that I would do it I couldn't see any way
that I could use a bicolor LED other than hooking up more circuitry on there
to get what you are looking for so let's go on to the next one okay to harness
this is for when I was making the digitrax cables did this also work with
NEC systems what happens if your system is working but you have one loco won't
work but it worked before yes you could use it on an NEC system I
don't have an NEC yes you can with the crimping tool and the proper connectors
putting them in the correct order you just have to look at the wiring diagram
for NCE and as far as the the locomotive working and then stops working a lot of
times there are problems with connections and that seems to be the the
biggest problem whether it's your wires going to the track or the tracks are
dirty or the wheels are dirty or the wipers that are touching the wheels are
dirty that's the first place that I would look Ron from Ron's trains and
things I'm far from any kind of literary iceberg help me understand the resistor
connected to one of the red wires will impact the voltage on all the rest of
the outputs from the power supply now I talked about this one before and the
reason that you put the resistor on there is to stabilize the voltage on the
power supply and what it does is it it simulates that there is a computer
hooked up to the power supply you want a constant resistance on there so it will
stabilize the the voltage regulators inside the power
supply and it'll give you a more stable voltage now you might not have liked
exactly at five or exactly at 12 or exactly at 3.3 but it's gonna be really
close and it's not gonna be fluctuating all
over the place and that's the reason for it okay now I just got this one a couple
of days ago from Frank Cullen and from his call letters down there he's a ham
operator so just the five um five watt resistor leads be covered with shrink
tubing to protect from chassis shorts also apply heat sink compound to the
underside of the resistor body for better heat dissipation and I thanked
them for the information and I told them that I always enjoy people putting their
information on there useful tips on the things I don't give you all the details
of everything how you could do things you know because that would make the
video too long and I don't want to get too long on it but I want to thank you
for that comment on there okay I have another one on the power supply
alright now I got this one oh this was a month ago attention you should be really
care while connecting together wires on the same voltage reason is simple if you
get to plus twelve wires that came from two different keys this may give you
plus twelve point a one on one wire and plus eleven point nine nine on the other
now this is you you're gonna run into this problem whenever you have a more
recent power supply that has and they call it rails and what better reason on
a railroad to have rails on it but anyway they'll have two different
sources inside the power supply and this is on power supplies that I don't know
where the cutoff is from the one that why use were you know I opened it up and
I showed you that all the all the wires were soldered in on a common point I
removed the top so you could see the insides and see where the wires
coming from on here and another reason for that is some some computer power
supplies have different rails in them and those are the newer more powerful
powerful ones but there are power supplies that have rails on it where
they have to I would call them power buses now on this whenever you're wiring
it up I would separate those wires that's why I showed you to open it up
and take a look at on there well where the wires are coming from if you see
that on there then whenever you bring your wires out I would bundle those
wires together from the different sources on the power supply now you're
gonna find this on the the higher wattage power supply maybe on like a
gaming unit where they use two plugs on the video card or even use two video
cards in the in the computer so this is what you want to look for whenever
you're opening it up open it up and take a look and see where those wires are
coming from and I'd like to thank you for that tip okay here's one that's a
complaint now I've had these complaints before and
you know whenever you're doing close-ups you know it's kind of hard to position
your camera even even some of the videos that I've done I've put three cameras on
there and tried to get the best camera position so you could see everything and
Mike does Amba not a very good video for someone who has never used solder it
would have been helpful if you zoomed in during the process and kept your hands
out of the shots well Mike you know we try our best whenever we're doing these
videos but it's hard to like I said before to get a good position on the
cameras and while you're doing the work you can't be moving the cameras around
you can't be zooming it in most of these I'm taken with either a webcam
my tablet or my cell phone so you know to go in there and work on something and
try to zoom in on something when I'm doing in the in post when I'm editing
the videos sometimes I'll zoom in that way but that's the only way that I can
do it but sometimes you know when you try to zoom in you don't get a good
clear picture of it I'll take a snapshot or something to show it up close or I'll
do a second shot on it but I don't get to do that all the time so thank you for
your comment and I appreciate it okay this is from Kelly I think it is
CSX 8840 CSS Baltimore subdivision his name's Kelly you should let people
know that every one of the DCC concepts which machines are wired different Greg
video thanks for sharing okay as far as the cobalt goes they started out with
just like on the on a tortoise which machine they had the eight pins and so
the wires for the motor went to pins one and eight and then they came out with
the the one that I did the Omega which they moved them around and put the motor
on one and two and added a signal wire for three and then they have the one
with the decoder built into it and that is wired differently also so yes thank
you for that information Kelly okay that's it for now now you could you
could tell my voice isn't that the greatest I still have a lot of
congestion I've been sick for the past two and a half weeks so that's why I
haven't put any videos out and if you have any questions about anything leave
a comment down below if you would like to go back and look at
the videos after a while I mean it helps out that if you know cuz not everybody
comments on it right away and you get some comments and I'll continue to put
these videos out like this to let you know what's going on with the comments
on stuff where it'll give you information that you might need
go take a look at Toms trains and things dot-com I'm gonna put some more stuff on
there also so take care and we'll see you and I'm gonna go over here John
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