10-01-2025, 06:16 PM
Thanks Charlie! Glad you enjoyed it.
It's certainly different perspective from the front end of a locomotive, and I'm glad I reinforced the camera car even if it resulted in having to redesign it. The text was added and the video cropped using Microsoft Clipchamp which I think is free and may come with Windows by default. Works well enough for my purposes even if I didn't use some of the bells and whistles.
My GP39-2 wasn't fixed with a swap of DCC decoders... Doing some further digging I found some charring on the underside of the board under one of the components nearest the motor pads. I'm afeared that it's toastiness is an indicator of defunctness, but there are plenty of replacements out there. Kinda confirms my diagnosis with a multimeter - I'm getting track voltage into the board but no output when I put the throttle to the loco. What's life without unexpected projects?
It's certainly different perspective from the front end of a locomotive, and I'm glad I reinforced the camera car even if it resulted in having to redesign it. The text was added and the video cropped using Microsoft Clipchamp which I think is free and may come with Windows by default. Works well enough for my purposes even if I didn't use some of the bells and whistles.
My GP39-2 wasn't fixed with a swap of DCC decoders... Doing some further digging I found some charring on the underside of the board under one of the components nearest the motor pads. I'm afeared that it's toastiness is an indicator of defunctness, but there are plenty of replacements out there. Kinda confirms my diagnosis with a multimeter - I'm getting track voltage into the board but no output when I put the throttle to the loco. What's life without unexpected projects?
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