Am new to DCC, and need some help. It has been a frustrating couple of nights.

I have a NCE ProCab and a three foot piece of flex track that I am using for my programming track. I am using DecoderPro3 with the NCE USB interface

I have three loco's, and all have problems that I can not figure out.

1) Bachmann 70T with Bachmann DCC installed.  Works fine, except that the headlights only come on when the headlight button is pushed on the ProCab. They do not come on based on direction. I have it set up as the Bachman 4 function decoder (36-550).

Just found out there is such a thing as silver bearing solder paste.  Evidently, one spreads out some paste over whatever is is you want to solder.  Then, touch the iron to it and the paste burns off leaving a silver solder joint.

I like to use silver bearing solder for soldering point rails to throwbars as it's supposedly stronger than other solders.   I wonder if this stuff would work for that purpose?

Has anyone used this stuff in our hobby?  If so, on what?

Thanks, 

John C

I keep hearing and seeing talk of hand-laid turnouts.  Are the commercial ones not as reliable?  I'll be doing a small layout, and hate the idea of having to hand-lay them.  I have a few of the newer Shinahara turnouts that are described as DCC ready--will they cause trouble?

In short, why the hand-laying of turnouts?

Hello everyone. Got a couple of my servos connected to my switches but whe I power them up using the tam valley equipment. I hear the motor moving but the wire doesn't move the switch.

May have issue with the placement of the servo or the wire. Any help with pics would be helpful.

Thanks