Hello Phantom I now have two sound fitted Accurascale class 37’s both BR Green. I have found I now have quite a serious problem with both of them. Whilst running them, the sound keeps cutting out and stopping, the only way I can get the sound back on again is to tip the locomotive slightly on one side until all the wheels on one side of the track are off the rails then wait for the stay-alive to run down. Once the stay-alive has completely run down and the locomotive is powered down, I return all of the wheels to the track, the sound once again returns, then a few moments later the same thing happens again and continues to do so until the locomotive has finally warmed up! This is extremely annoying, I’m reluctant to inform Accurascale about this fault because I believe Accurascale will simply suggest the locomotives be returned to them for a possible replacement, which I don’t believe will happen due to lack of availability. I would be really interested to know if this fault is just on my two locomotives or are there many more people with the same problem?

Hello Richard Good question, I began my model railway journey back in 2004, originally this layout was erected within the extension at the back of my home and because this space had to be shared with ordinary home use my layout was designed to be lifted up from the floor (in two sections) and stored upright when not in use. Unfortunately for me when I built this layout I paid no attention to placing the track on a bed of cork. I do wish now I had done so and the reasoning as to not doing it now is because I have employed DCC Concepts Cobalt point motors (all situated beneath my layout) In total I have 32 point-ends on my layout, and as a result, each of the points control arms have already been cut down in size, so if I wanted to now retrofit a cork bed beneath the track I would have to purchase replacement point control arms from DCC Concepts which would quite expensive. I really do wish that I had used a cork track bed in the first place.

Hello Michael Since I reduced the sound level on both of my Accurascale class 37’s using CV63 value 150, I’ve had no further problems whatsoever.

Hello Andrew Thank you for your question No, I’ve not yet lifted the removable roof panel or made any alterations to this locomotive apart from reassigning its decoder addressing.

Hi Tony I have spoke to accurascsale regarding the read this card before use regarding the switches I asked them if we needed to take the sound decoder and set the switches for dcc sound They said you don't need to do this as they should have been set at the factory before the decoders were fitted just thought I would let you know as some people have taken the decoder out and set the switches but then couldn't get there lights working