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OMG.

You just can't make this stuff up.

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/topic/mth ... 8981918804



George

*snicker*

ScaleCraft wrote:*snicker*

Seriously? How awesome (read: PATHETIC) is your engineering when your own product kills the DCS signal?

That's what gets me. Does no one have a sense of shame over there? Remorse? Anything?

My God. If my name were on a product like that, I'd likely die of shame at these kinds of errors.

George

Another reason to stay conventional

so...I have had oddball issues with manufacturers doing things that it takes forever to figure out.
I did R/C of G scale stuff for 20+ years. Every once in a while we'd get a (made in China) steam engine where the range (27MC) was measured in inches, not 50-100 feet.

Finally removed the shell, removed the receiver, laid it on top of the shell, had range all across the yard.
Head scratcher.

Let's say this one was Southern Pacific. Got another unit in, same manufacturer, same model, different road name....let's say Pennsylvania. 120" of range.

Pulled all the gear out of the poor range unit, stuck it into the new one....120' of range. Took the stuff originally installed in the PRR steamer that HAD 120' of range.......less than two feet.

Looked at the differences. Then it dawned on me.

The brouhaha over the PRC importing "toys" with lead paint.....gotta maximize profit...re-use it on locomotives!

Most likely scenario is there is RF signal killing lead in the paint. Certainly not the radio gear, throttle, sound system.

And you can't tell by looking. Could I have chipped out a sample for testing? Yeah, but I get to pay for that, so never did.



Or, another PRC manufactured steamer....several, to be precise...had EU spec noise suppressors on the POS Mabuchi motors. First indication we had a problem was ONE would go forward just fine, but took full throttle to back up. WTH?

Tore the engine fully down...discovered the Mk 1 noise suppressors had two electolytic caps (plus a couple of mylars and small inductors) in a bi-polar array...and the worker bees had one electolytic in backwards, effectively shorting the PWM throttle output.
From then on, first order of business was to remove the noise boards on ALL that came through.

G3750 wrote:OMG.

You just can't make this stuff up.

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/topic/mth ... 8981918804

Someone should collect all these up and collate them into a book,

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:

G3750 wrote:OMG.

You just can't make this stuff up.

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/topic/mth ... 8981918804

Someone should collect all these up and collate them into a book,

"The Compleat Idiots Guide To Evilbait for the Clueless and Gullible."

ScaleCraft wrote:

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:

G3750 wrote:OMG.

You just can't make this stuff up.

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/topic/mth ... 8981918804

Someone should collect all these up and collate them into a book,

"The Compleat Idiots Guide To Evilbait for the Clueless and Gullible."

Either you've skipped a groove or only have 1 groove -- "The Compleat Idiots Guide To DCS for the Clueless and Gullible."

That's the sequel. More PROFIT!

ScaleCraft wrote:That's the sequel. More PROFIT!

I am not against profit, as long as it's mine.

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:

ScaleCraft wrote:That's the sequel. More PROFIT!

I am not against profit, as long as it's mine.

Reasonable. Unlike DCS that was never ready for prime time but sucked in the clueless for more MikeyProfit!

I must have hit a nerve. Now I'm drawing fire from a fan-boy.

Reminds me of an old Peter Townsend lyric "Is it true that the hypnotized never lie?"

George

G3750 wrote:I must have hit a nerve. Now I'm drawing fire from a fan-boy.

Reminds me of an old Peter Townsend lyric "Is it true that the hypnotized never lie?"

George

A few more shots of whiskey and that thread will vanish.

I must have hit a nerve. Now I'm drawing fire from a fan-boy.

You could consider it a "badge of honor".

G3750 wrote:Now I'm drawing fire from a fan-boy.

Tell him, and I quote, "Er kann mich am Arsch lecken."