Accurascale Manor After 4 Months--The Good, The Bad, The Ugly (354)
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- Опубликовано: 13 июл 2024
- About 4 months ago I reviewed the newly released Accurascale Manor 4-6-0 loco and gave it a thumbs up based on just a few days running. I was so impressed I turned around and immediately order a second loco to compliment the first. Since then I have had quite a bit of time explore all aspects of these locos and as a result I have found a few issues to share with you. In spite of these I still think these are a magnificent model and would not hesitate to recommend them to anyone, as long as you are aware of these issues and are ready to roll with the punches.
Below are my findings on controlling the Power Pack keep alive built into the ricuit board using non-LokSound decoders. Keep in miond tht the keep alive will not work with DC only locos.
Through a contact at ESU I was able to find out that on the circuit board, pin 13 of the Next18 interface is used to control the PowerPack (this gets a bit technical). According to the NMRA standard, pin 13 is designated as Aux4. Then through my contacts at SoundTraxx I found out that on the Tsunami2 decoder I tried with the Manor, that translates to FX6, which is assigned to function button F27. Consequently all I had to do was bring up the button for function 27 on my NCE PowerCab throttle and turn it on. After that the PowerPack worked and I have stay alive power with a Tsunami2 decoder. If I turn it off again then the PowerPack does not work. It also should be turned off during programming, and then back on again when finished.
This seems a simple solution until you consider that each decoder type will likely use a different function button. For example according to my contact at ESU, a LokPilot decoder uses F6 (Note, I don’t have a LokPilot decoder so could not test this). In the LokSound decoder I believe it is on by default but the decoder automatically turns it off during programming and back on afterwards. There is also the possibility that a decoder manufacturer may not have made any provisions at all for controlling pin 13. At any rate unless this is spelled out explicitly in the instructions, an owner would have to contact the manufacturer of their decoder to find out how pin 13 is controlled which may be a problem and I don’t know of any comprehensive list of these assignments. It also may be necessary for a modeler to program their decoder to do this, which for some would be a challenge.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:54 The Good
1:05 Paint & Livery
1:25 Copper Chimney Top
1:42 Etched Plates
1:58 Cab & Firebox Flicker
2:14 DCC Slow Speed
2:26 Keep Alive
2:42 The Bad
2:49 Poor DC Slow Speed
3:17 Grinding Noise
3:49 Slow Down on Curves
4:26 The Ugly
4:32 Keep Alive
6:27 Low Volume
11:45 Lack of Lube
13:30 Wrapup 
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Interesting, thanks Larry. A lesson for all of us ìn this one.
Thank you for sharing.👍
Thanks for this Larry, some good info. I have Torquay Manor, have only run it for a few minutes and it is now back in its box. Will check the lubrication status as soon as I can. interesting to note that Accurrascale have just announced a life time warranty for all of their products, even products already purchased and delivered. I guess they are telling the modelling world that they stand by their products.
They don't seem to be doing so well lately. I saw Chadwick doing his review on the class 37...
Excellent informative video 👍😃😃🚂🇬🇧
hello Larry & it's is Randy and i like yours video is cool Thanks Larry Friends Randy
Kinda wish this came up before I got my Hinton Manor, thankfully the gears did have some grease on them but the bearings needed a little bit of oil so that was fun. That said I wish dealing with a lot of American steam engines was this easy to do, Bachmann especially.
Me and my son at Track3d railway parts were the ones that sorted the speaker upgrade .. we have quite a good relationship with Richard at roads and rails and we messaged him our results ..! Ultimately as soon as he published our findings he sold out of speakers ..!!
It is a very simply upgrade and takes only five minutes.. the hardest part of the job is unplugging and plugging in the tender ..!
I have Hinton manor and yeah when I first put it on the rolling rd it locked up .. took an hour of fiddling but now runs superb and has amazing crawl ..!
I too found the axle box’s dry .!!
We have also made another little programming upgrade as I found f2 ( active brake ) wasn’t working so we have adjusted that and also programmed a E brake or hand brake and assigned it to F23 .
It is a superb looking modle but accurascale seem to of over looked quite a few other issues.
Yes, I need to change all my function key mapping to conform to the North American defaults found on my SoundTraxx Econami decoders and DCC throttles.
The joy of analog 😁
Thanks so much for this video Larry. I’ve had the very same issue with the Anthony Manor I purchased just before Xmas and fitted a Zimo MS581 decoder to, i.e no stay alive! Fortunately, the loco runs fine without, but at least I now have a route to explore to see if I can get it working. Annoying that Accurascale would release a model that only works properly with one make of decoder and then not tell anyone that. Iain
If you’ve seen videos on the new Class 37 they have included a dip switch that can be set for LokSound decoders, non-ESU decoders, and DC operations, so I think they learned something from the Manors.
@@TheDCCGuy Hi Larry, well after a little bit of experimenting today with my Manor I can confirm that your solution for a Tsunami2 decoder, also works with a Zimo MS581 from YouChoos that I have installed. Had to map the AUX4 output to a function key in Decoder Pro but I can now turn the stay alive on and off. Many thanks again for pointing me in the right direction with this. Can now fully enjoy what is an outstanding model. Iain
That is great to hear. It really makes my day when I get feedback like this confirming this stuff, thanks-Larry
Hey Mr Larry me and the wife love your videos. Been reading your books. I'm building an ho layout 12 ft by 6 ft DCC and I'm having a little problem deciding something. I'm using Walter's new DCC friendly turnout number 6. I have two pointing each other for a siding going to my Depot. Do I need to put plastic rail joiners to my turn out or can I just solder everything with metal rail joiners do I need to do this to all my turnouts . All my frogs will be Juiced. Worried about polarity and short circuits. Thanks in advance Leo
Want Sweet Sound? Try a Sugar Cube Speaker! 😅
hope accurascale takes your reviewon board and make the changes to improve it
If you’ve seen videos on the new Class 37 they have included a dip switch that can be set for LokSound decoders, non-ESU decoders, and DC operations, so I think they learned something from the Manors.
A Commet chassis, Romford Wheels and Gears and a Can motor looks better and better with each Accurascale review I read.
Tha reminds me of Emily.