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Give me one good reason why I shouldn't love Earl of St. Germans as much as I still do. She makes a much better sound with her new sound decoder, music to my ears. Even though Cookham Manor comes out on top above her, Earl of St. Germans is just as beautiful-looking I admit. Happy steaming. As you can see, it's not all doom and gloom. Glad you got your appointment fixed. I have a bit of bad news myself. My AF has come back, so it means I have to go to Liverpool Hospital at some stage. Don't be alarmed, it's not like I need major surgery or anything. But when Cookham Manor and Earl of St. Germans strut their stuff for me, I'm always left with a cheerful grin on my face. Hats off to you, Robert. I'm not just saying that.

Hi Robert - It is frustrating when locos fail and hopefully the Rapido one is fixed/replaced and also you now have a reliable decoder in the Earl of St Germains . Most importantly you are moving forwards with the hospital treatment and hoping that all goes well. Cheers Kev

Hi Robert. Before embarking on any rewiring, I would try a different decoder in each loco. I have a Jinty that buzzed and growled, I fitted a Lenz decoder and that cured it. Really enjoy your videos. Regards, Pete.

The tracks are very nicely ballasted I also like the points motor Because of the noise, I think that your board is reflecting the noise like that

Hi Robert if it's not one thing it's another. Sorry can't help with the noise problem it does seem strange. The only thing that did cross my mind was is the curve after the point a bit tight or pinched in some way. I've got rid of most of my hornby decoders they just don't seem up to the job, cheers for now Andy

Hi Robert i would say two things, 1 it could be the track downstairs is glued down and upstairs it isn't i believe, so i think that has something to do with it maybe, 2 the niose sounds abit like dc the wire you use was i think 1.5 solid core wire, i believe that low voltage, amps only travels around the outside of the solid core were multi thin core there more wire carrying the low volts, amps to the track. With Lodi and itrain you use the same multi core wire with about 15 strands of wire inside to make a wire, to loop each Lodi booster which detects the trains i can have 63 in a row then each booster detector feeds 8 blocks which is 504 blocks using the same wire that is so there is a good connection to the track. I don't know if that helps. Glad you've got appointment for your skin. Colin

Dear Robert, I can congratulate you on the very nice video but I know how to help you. Today, digital has become very complex. A super like for your video ,have a good weekend,alberto 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Hi Robert .Check to see if you have the right amount of ampage. i heard the same type of thing on DC layouts .Try and compare between the two layouts. as well as voltages. Just an idea Robert. Regards Lord Al.

from what i can hear on decent headphone's, the noise seems to be created quite normally by the wheel but is amplified and re verbing on the end to end by the board you have used to enclose the underneath, try running the same experiment with the bottom board removed.

Inclined to think as others have suggested, it sounds like low power on dc. I would check if there's a setting on your controller or power pack.

Listening to it, it sounds like PWM on DC. I know you are running DCC. I wonder if your downstairs end to end layout controller is using a form of PWM.

Are you using your Digikeys downstairs too?