extra output for lights or aux devices is what the purple wire

To help you get i out of the box next time, that’s what the finger holes in the back are for.

Fascinating stuff. It’s actually really good to see the unpacking ‘as it happened’. Pretty disturbing to see the problems with the Deltic. When spending that amount of money you really should expect the item to work properly out of the box. I hope you get a replacement quickly. (If not, we need to know which retailer to avoid!)

Your mistake was buying something with "Hornby" printed on the box and expecting it to work.

Hi Mark. I'm sorry you have had trouble with the Deltic. I know it's easy to say after the event, but the noise from the Deltic was definitely mechanical and I wouldn't have continued running it making that noise. If/when you return it, I don't think I would admit to continuing to run it. Let the retailer work out the problem (which obviously is a fault on arrival). Hopefully, they will just replace it.

Very interesting video...just doing my baseboards at the moment, after a 35+ year break. Was put off by the cost of DCC, but it really is the future. I have nothing at all against DC, but I just know that i will hanker to convert to DCC it if I go the route of DC...LOL

excellent

Looks like your Deltic was just a dud. Motor sounded terrible and chip blew.. didn't see you try it with blanking plate on dc to confirm it was blown decoder tho. I got 4 locos on hm7000, they sound and run great. Track is powered by a 2nd hand Hornby select and no blown chips for me. This system really is a change changer for home users like myself.. we all like to grumble about Hornby but personally i think this is a great system

good vid on channel ,keep up the good vid on channel thanks lee

The purple wire from the decoder is a function output (F4). I hope you can get a replacement Deltic, I've just got my first txs decoder working in my Deltic and it runs brilliantly even at low speed.

I think your back scene is looking really good. It blends well with your scenery and I think you a great depth of field. I think you have a made a good call on the deltic. It’s brand new and you have issues so it’s best to send it back. I am exclusively DCC and I think a great test is to see how well a loco runs at slow speed- perhaps the slowest. I noticed that your deltic when moving off 😢showed signs of losing power and it was very noisy mechanically, which made me think you have some issues with the gears, perhaps a physical fault. On the other hand could be back emf setting on the decoder- in any case out of the box these shouldn’t be of your concern! Best of luck!

The Accurascale Class 55 is way ahead of hornby, you made a mistake.

A lot of DC controllers are not compatable with this chip, dispite them claiming it would, theres been a lot reporting failures and a list on there own info on dc controllers that don`t work well, general consensus don`t use them on dc, but there seems to be glitches with it meaning purchasing a stay alive and running them on DCC. I was considering getting a couple as a cheap sound option, but as Al at dragon junc just had one blow in his new loco. I`ll leave it, I had hoped they`d ironed out issues in the first batch but clearly not.

Sounds to me like the Deltic had or has a faulty motor.