MERG kit # 2 started

As expected the TDF is getting in the way of modelling as I am spending the evenings catching up with the previous night's recorded session. However I was able to start the second MERG kit over the weekend and I am now up to the point of needing the power supply, so I will be ordering one of these this week. After my conversation with Ian Both, a fellow MERG member in Brissie, I have decided to accept his suggestion and use a 12VDC 5A transformer. It is cheap enough and if I need to revert to the AC based adaptor then I will.

No movement on the terraces as I have to sort out some LED lighting to go into them before I seal the front walls. I only have to worry about the front windows as no one will see the back windows.

The other thing of interest was I posted a query on the MERG yahoo forum querying the pronounciation, is it like 'berg' or 'merge'? Well did that throw up any interesting chain of events. Apparently both could be interchangeable as MERG was originally formed from the merger of two existing clubs, but you could use it as 'berg' as the 'G' is a hard G as in 'Group'. I think I will sound it out like 'berg'.

Mr Mackie took a delivery of 12VDC ammeters from ebay last week and a cuple of spares. I will purchase one of him and setup the DCC circuit as per Marcus Allman's page for Illavearf because since upgrading to an SB3a I have lost the inbuilt ammeter feature of the PowerCAB.

So this week I might get around to the LED lighting in the terraces OR start on the MERG USB kit. Not sure. Club monthly meeting this Saturday so maybe a working bee on the new layout before the 2pm meeting. We will see!