Starting with Battery and R/C

[VicRail10]

Hello,
I'm looking to start with R/C, and I'm rather lost. I'm in Australia (Melbourne), so it's not super easy to get hold of stuff. I'm wondering what system others use, and where you purchase things.

Any advice is welcome.

[philipy]

Hi and welcome.
I'm not going to try to answer your questions from the other side of the world (!) but we have a number of Australian members, some of whom live not a million miles from you, I think. No doubt they will pop up with some answers before too long.

[LNR]

Hi! and welcome to the forum, good to see another down under member.
Grant.

[GTB]

I'm looking to start with R/C, and I'm rather lost. I'm in Australia (Melbourne), so it's not super easy to get hold of stuff. I'm wondering what system others use, and where you purchase things.

Since Tony Walsham passed away and his company RCS closed down, there has been no supplier of battery-rc equipment for large scale rail models in Oz, as far as I'm aware.

I started using Deltang equipment in some of my battery powered models when Tony first introduced it to the Aust. market.

Since the closure of RCS and Deltang, I now get Deltang compatible parts from Andy at Micron Radio Control in the UK. I've found the mail order service to be good and the receivers can be supplied already set up to work the same as the older RCS parts.

Phil at RC Trains also supplies Deltang compatible bits and is a member of this forum.

As you may have guessed, I prefer to use Deltang compatible equipment, which I'm used to. There are a lot of alternatives out there, but the ergonomics of transmitters that use car key fobs, or mobile phones, or joysticks, definitely do not float my boat........

The usual electronic bits and pieces like switches, plugs and sockets, etc. mostly come from the local Jaycar branch.

Welcome to the forum and good luck in your quest.

Graeme

[GAP]

I use aircraft transmitters and receivers, these are the motor controls I use along with mylocosound cards.
https://ringbalin-light-railway.blogspo ... ed-on.html
I have re packaged one transmitter and converted it so that it controls 4 locos and I have just noticed the links to trev's blog no longer work but the forum is OK. I'll update my blog with a how did I do it description.
I was to far down the rabbit hole to use deltang and the others by the time I heard about them.