Dapol Hawthorn Leslie - DCC Sound and Stay Alive fitted by Digitrains

[@_Zekken]

Thanks to this video, I was able to fit the same capacitors into my own hawthorne leslie and get my own stay alive working. It was incredibly difficult to do (WHY DID THEY PUT A TINY RESISTOR RIGHT NEXT TO THE POSITVE PAD ON THE DECODER AHHHH!!!), but now that its done Im getting a solid 5+ seconds of run time when it loses power to the tracks, which is more than enough to stop it stalling on points and during micro power losses from the track. Im very happy.

[@davew2452]

Strange that I searched for this earlier today and now it has come up. Thanks.

[@johnbrown9092]

Really nice wholesome sound😊

[@tim04]

Would this stay alive work inside a hornby peckett?

[@PaulRhB]

Does the ms580 with stay alive circuits not fit in?