In the meantime I've got my first DCC chips installed in the Rail-Zeppelin and my Q1.
The Q1 was easy. The tender lifts of quickly and simply, and you just replace the buffer chip with your decoder (in my case a Lenz Silver Mini).
The Zeppelin was slightly more complicated til I managed to track down some English instructions... result: I now have one spare mini sitting waiting to have longer wires reattached after I didn't notice the built in cavity for decoders in the chassis (oops!).
If you do it the right way, the decoder sits happily in the cavity on the underside, with the wires trailing up some approximately correctly positioned and sized gaps...
The wires solder easily on to the tabs, and they even provide handy little letters on the tabs to guide you (R for Red, O for orange etc...). I've chosen to use good old cello-tape to secure my wires. Even this way it's a bit bulky for the body to snap down again on the lugs, so some of the self-adhesive pad supplied with the decoder provides a handy way to keep everything together...
For anyone else attempting to put DCC in the Zeppelin. The lovely chaps at Lemke have the instructionshere.
Both now run with my Digitrax Zephyr, and the Q1 seems to be a lot smoother than on DC - not sure why!
More updates when I start building the layout soon.
K
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